Prayer : Does it make any diference?
Prayer: Does it make any diference? / Yancey, Philip
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 2006. —
ББК 248.32 / Yan / 2006
Зміст:
CONTENTS
PART ONE
KEEPING COMPANY WITH GOD
I.Our Deepest Longing /11
2.View from Above /18
3.Just As We Are / 30
4.The God Who Is / 45
5.Coming Together / 56
PART TWO
UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES
6.Why Pray? / 73
7.Wrestling Match / 89
8.Partnership / 101
9.What Difference Does It Make? /115
10.Does Prayer Change God? / 131
II.Ask, Seek, Knock / 145
PART THREE
THE LANGUAGE OF PRAYER
12.Yearning for Fluency /157
13.Prayer Grammar / 170
14- Tongue-Tied / 184
15.The Sound of Silence / 198
PART FOUR
PRAYER DILEMMAS
16.Unanswered Prayer: Whose Fault? /215
17.Unanswered Prayer: Living with the Mystery / 232
18.Prayer and Physical Healing / 248
19.What to Pray For / 267
PART FIVE
THE PRACTICE OF PRAYER
20.Prayer and Me / 285
21.Prayer and Others / 301
22.Prayer and God /314
Prayer Resources / 329
Thanks I 333
Sources / 335
Credits /351
Анотація:
In his most powerful book since What’s So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat—the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect—of our relationship with God.
PRAYER.
Does prayer work? More personally, does it work the way we think it should? What can we really expect from prayer?
Written by one of the most significant Christian thinkers of our generation, Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? explores the questions surrounding prayer that many of us wonder but few of us know how to express.