Discovering Prayer

This innovative text provides phrase-by-phrase translation and commentary to the weekday Shemoneh Esrei prayer. The result is an indispensable guide that makes daily prayer a more meaningful and rewarding experience. A handy, valuable book for everyone!

If your're thinking there's nothing new that can be written on prayer--think again! In this practical and inspiring book, Discovering How to Pray, Hope MacDonald gives refreshing new insights into a perennial problem of Christians--how, when, where, and why we should pray.

A gentle book which encourages readers to see prayer as a multi-sensory experience

A revised second edition of this introduction to prayer is aimed primarily at those looking into the Christian faith. The text covers such areas as: what is prayer, does God hear us, what can we pray for, and how can we listen to God?

"My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations," (Mark 11:17b) is a call to intercession. What If The House Of God Really Did Become The House Of Prayer? Why not find out what every one of us is passionate about and train up an army of intercessors. Special Forces, teams of soldiers, focused on specific assignments? You are Special Forces! You are getting ready for intensive training. This book is your basic training guide to help you understand your place.

Renowned pastor and New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller explores the power of prayer. Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In Prayer, renowned pastor Timothy Keller delves into the many facets of this everyday act. With his trademark insights and energy, Keller offers biblical guidance as well as specific prayers for certain situations, such as dealing with grief, loss, love, and forgiveness. He discusses ways to make prayers more personal and powerful, and how to establish a practice of prayer that works for each reader. Dr. Keller’s previous books have sold more than one million copies. His Redeemer Presbyterian Church is not only a major presence in his home base of New York, it has also helped to launch more than two hundred fifty other churches in forty-eight cities around the world. His teachings have already helped millions, the majority of whom pray regularly. And with Prayer, he’ll show them how to find a deeper connection with God.

“A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer is a valuable and thoughtful book, and a very practical one, which can be put with confidence into the hands of anyone who wishes to learn to pray the Examen and to find the presence and action of God in their lives.” —Andrea Kelly, Thinking Faith Sometimes we can experience prayer as formal, dry, and repetitious. But what might happen if we discovered a simple prayer that changed all that? In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces Christians to a 500-year-old form of prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed. The prayer is the Examen, which St. Ignatius Loyola developed for the purpose of nurturing a reflective habit of mind that is constantly attuned to God’s presence. What makes the prayer so powerful is its capacity to dispel any notion that God is somewhere “up there,” detached from our day-to-day tasks and concerns. Instead, the examen leads us into a relationship with a God who desires to be personally caught up in the lives of those whom he created.