Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True HomeHarper Collins, 2009 M10 13 - 288 páginas Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest. Coming to prayer is like coming home, Foster says. "Nothing feels more right, more like what we are created to be and to do. Yet at the same time we are confronted with great mysteries. Who hasn't struggled with the puzzle of unanswered prayer? Who hasn't wondered how a finite person can commune with the infinite Creator of the universe? Who hasn't questioned whether prayer isn't merely psychological manipulation after all? We do our best, of course, to answer these knotty questions but when all is said and done, there is a sense in which these mysteries remain unanswered and unanswerable . . . At such times we must learn to become comfortable with the mystery." Foster shows how prayer can move us inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to minister to others. He leads us beyond questions to a deeper understanding and practice of prayer, bringing us closer to God, to ourselves, and to our community. |
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... and my heart of all evil intents. Now, what more should I do?" Abba Joseph rose up and stretched out his hands to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of fire. He answered, "Why not be totally changed into fire?" 6.
... hand, worship a God who was born in a smelly stable, who walked this earth in blood, sweat, and tears, but who nevertheless lived in perpetual responsiveness to the heavenly Monitor. And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation ...
... —all of these become as mere ashes in our hands. Not that there is anything wrong with acts of devotion, but theyzrt no longer what fascinate us. Most surprising of all, our very dryness produces the habit PRAYER OF THE FORSAKEN ife 21.
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The Prayer of Tears | 37 |
Chapters The Prayer of Relinquishment | 47 |
Formation Prayer | 57 |
Covenant Prayer | 67 |
SEEKING THE INTIMACY WE NEED | 79 |
Contemplative Prayer | 155 |
SEEKING THE MINISTRY WE NEED | 167 |
Praying the Ordinary | 169 |
Petitionary Prayer | 179 |
Intercessory Prayer | 191 |
Healing Prayer | 203 |
The Prayer of Suffering | 217 |
Authoritative Prayer | 229 |
The Prayer of Adoration | 81 |
The Prayer of Rest | 93 |
Sacramental Prayer | 105 |
Unceasing Prayer | 119 |
The Prayer of the Heart | 131 |
Meditative Prayer | 143 |
Radical Prayer | 243 |
Notes | 257 |
Scripture Index | 269 |
Subject Index | 270 |
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Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home Richard J. Foster Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home Richard J. Foster Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |