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Retreat 2 Resources: Prayer
These websites and books explore the practical approaches to prayer, and help to answer questions raised by the mystery of prayer. apprenticeship to Jesus in both conceptual and practical ways, including various spiritual disciplines that position us to learn from Jesus.
Online
Matt Chandler, The Village Church, Prayer (Video Curriculum, Right Now Media)
God calls us to be a people of prayer, desperately depending on Him to move and transform hearts and lives. In this series, The Village Church focuses on three prayer topics: racial reconciliation, the sanctity of human life and the nations.
Pete Grieg, 24/7 Prayer, The Prayer Course (Video Curriculum, Right Now Media)
An eight session journey through the Lord's Prayer. Conversation, testimony and teaching to help you, and your community, to grow and deepen your prayer life, one week at a time.
Pete Grieg, 24/7 Prayer, The Prayer Course II: Unanswered Prayer (Video Curriculum, Right Now Media)
An opportunity for groups to process pain and disappointment; to ask truthful and significant questions of faith; and to unite in the face of uncertainty towards healing and hope.
Ranjit David, Teach Us to Pray (Video Curriculum, Right Now Media)
explains how the Lord’s Prayer is much more than a model prayer. Instead, it is a declaration that establishes God’s reign not just in Heaven, but on Earth as well when we mean what we pray. The Lord’s prayer is not ritualistic dogma or a magical mantra but a deeply conversational, one-on-one appointment with our Father.
Margaret Feinberg, The Sacred Echo: Why is Prayer so Mysterious? (Video Curriculum, Right Now Media)
When we pray, does God answer? Was that God's voice, or my own? When God really wants to get your attention, he doesn't just say something once, he echoes. The same theme, idea, impression, or lesson will repeat itself in surprising and unexpected ways until you realize that maybe, just maybe, God is at work. As God's voice echoes to us, we are invited to echo back to him in prayer.
Books
Richard Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home (Hodder, 2008)
Explores the riches of the historical classics of prayer as well as his own personal experience and roots his teaching in Scripture.
Pete Grieg, How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People (Navpress, 2019)
Full of biblically sound wisdom, How to Pray will offer honest encouragement and real-life methods to refresh your spirit and help you practice life-giving and lifechanging prayer.
Darrell Johnson, 57 Words That Change the World: A Journey Through the Lord’s Prayer (CCLN, 2021)
In eight stirring meditations, Darrell Johnson shows how the Lord's Prayer sums up the essence of Christian faith and, when prayed in faith, draws us into draws us into the Triune God's work of transforming the world.
Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (Penguin Books, 2016)
Containing biblical guidance and specific prayers, this work offers motivation and practical guidance for growing in and maintaining a life of prayer.
Douglas Kain McKelvey, Every Moment Holy (Rabbit Room Press, 2022)
Through liturgy and written prayers, this book offers pre-written prayers to accompany countless everyday situations, such as making coffee, folding laundry, hosting a meal, decorating a Christmas tree, and more.
Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God in a Distracting World (The Navigators, 2017)
Miller invites you to foster prayer that regularly hopes, trusts, and expects God to act.
John Ortberg, Soul-Keeping: Caring for the Most Important Part of You (Zondervan, 2014)
Helps you discover your soul – the most important connection to God there is – and find your way out of the spiritual shallow-lands to true divine depth.
J.I. Packer, Praying the Lord’s Prayer (Crossway, 2007)
As readers study each phrase in Christ’s prayer, they will begin to develop a deeper understanding, appreciation for, and communion with the Father in Heaven.
Spiritual formation happens in the everyday, and this book shared spiritual practices that will help you learn how to have a deeper connection with God, no matter your life situation or vocation.
a profound spiritual exploration of God's love—a love that many of us understand intellectually without fully grasping—a love that fills our sails with joy and frees us to truly flourish.
Although many find prayer boring, obligatory, or confusing, the common roadblocks can be addressed and overcome, giving us the confidence to come to God just as we are.
N.T. Wright, The Lord and His Prayer (Eerdmans, 2014)
Wright explores how the Lord's Prayer sums up what Jesus was all about in his first-century setting, and how the prayer's devotional application grows out of its historical context.
Let your roots grow down into him,
and let your lives be built on him.
Colossians 2:6
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