While there are a variety of coping techniques when it comes to stress--sleep more, eat better, avoid this, seek that out--the true remedy is prayer. In this inspiring book, Linda Evans Shepherd shows readers how to recognize God's continual presence and yield their troubles to the Prince of Peace. Through captivating stories, explorations of fascinating… Read more…
New York Times best-selling author of Wild at Heart John Eldredge offers readers a step-by-step guide to effective Christian prayer.How would it feel to enter into prayer with confidence and assurance—certain that God heard you and that your prayers would make a difference?It would likely feel amazing and unfamiliar. That’s because often our pray… Read more…
Learn the art of prayer from the hearts of giants of the faith. Prayer is simply talking with God—yet even the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray. Since then, godly men and women of the faith have given us guidance to a deeper prayer life—and their most insightful comments are included in A 12-Month Guide to Better Prayer for Wome… Read more…
The Only Comprehensive Guide to the Prayer Life of JesusPrayer was essential to Jesus. Yet many Christians only know the Lord's Prayer, unaware of the rich, fertile prayer life he had while on earth.With warmth and keen insight, Janet Holm McHenry takes you on an engaging, vivid journey through the 14 recorded prayers Jesus prayed as well as his teaching… Read more…
Here’s a practical guide of prayer starters that will help you pray confidently while living through cancer. Cancer patients as well as family members and loved ones will find hope and encouragement through prayers that cover times such as diagnosis, treatment, and recovery as well as tough topics like doubts, pain, fear, and anger. Nearly 50 topics in… Read more…
“Anything worth something has a cost.”—Stan Succumbing to pancreatic cancer in late 2013, Stan understood the depth of his own statement more than most of us ever could. You can share Stan’s legacy with this twenty-eight-day journal designed to draw you deeper into prayer, specifically for the Muslim world .With touching photos and poignant excerpts … Read more…
A veces la oración podría confundirse con una especie de reunión formal entre el gerente general del cielo y el más humilde de los empleados. Sin embargo, la oración realmente es una conversación entre un Padre amoroso y su hijo: cada uno de nosotros. El tiempo que dedicamos a la conversación con Dios nos ayuda a entender que Él siempre está con nos… Read more…
Based on the keynote message that so moved government leaders at the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast, U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black’s Make Your Voice Heard in Heaven shows us how to pray prayers that God will hear.Now more than ever, we are fighting for our voices to be heard on earth. We march, we tweet, we advocate on behalf of the voiceless, calling t… Read more…
<p>“This little book is explosive and powerful.”<br><strong>R. Albert Mohler, Jr.</strong></p> <p>When you pray, does it ever feel like you’re just saying <em>the same old things about the same old things</em>?</p> <p>Offering us the encouragement and the pract… Read more…
For over two decades Too Busy Not to Pray has stood as a classic on prayer, helping Christians all over the world slow down to draw near to God.
During those years, the world certainly hasn't slowed down. If anything, the pace, intensity and number of distractions have only increased. Brokenness and pain seem to have increased as well, with news… Read more…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, a sixteen volume series, offers a fresh, critical translation of Bonhoeffer's writings, with introductions, an… Read more…
Why is prayer so hard?
Many of us have asked that question. We want to pray. We intend to pray. But, as spiritual director and professor MaryKate Morse notes, ' we don't pray as consistently or as meaningfully as we might like.'
And yet prayer offers us such spiritual riches. Prayer
draws us to experience love and to be love… Read more…
