Spurred to prayer by tragedy, pain, frustration, or raw hunger for God, you've felt it: the joyful-anguish, the grief-longing, the burden for mercy, reformation, revival, justice--even Christ's return. Your heart's gripped, and words cannot express all that is churning deep in your soul. It's here, says intercessory leader Tammie Southerland, in this space beyond human language, where mysteries are unveiled, authority is imparted, and the most powerful prayers are birthed--not by you, but by the Spirit within you. Through biblical insight, prophetic impartations, and fiery encouragement, she helps you navigate this holy ground, empowering you to · yield to the Spirit's perfect prayers when you have no words left · intercede with Christ according to the will of Heaven · live as a faithful witness and bold messenger who moves in the miraculous · bear eternal fruit in crisis, setbacks, and persecution You've been gripped for a purpose. It's time to step into the transformative dimension of wordless prayer and become a lightning rod for Heaven to manifest on earth.

An intensely personal devotional book from Thomas Merton, the ultimate spiritual writer of our time, showing his contemplative and religious side through his prayers and rarely-seen drawings. The only Merton gift book available. Dialogues with Silence contains a selection of prayers from throughout Merton's life--from his journals, letters, poetry, books--accompanied by all 100 of Merton's rarely seen, delightful Zen-like pen-and-ink drawings, and will attract new readers as well as Merton devotees. There is no other Merton devotional like this, and the paperback edition will be elegantly designed and packaged.

What if prayer could be simple rather than strenuous? Anxious, results-driven Christians can never pray enough, serve enough, or study enough. But what if God is calling us not to frenzied activity but to a simple spiritual encounter? What if we must merely receive what God has already given us? In Flee, Be Silent, Pray, writer and contemplative retreat leader Ed Cyzewski guides readers out of the anxiety factory of contemporary Christianity and toward a God whose love astounds those quiet long enough to receive it. With helpful guidance into solitude, contemplative prayer, and practices such as lectio divina and the Examen, Cyzewski guides readers toward the Christ whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light. Ready to shed the fear of the false self and the exhaustion of a duty-driven faith? Flee. Be silent. Pray.

How do you practice real conversation with God? How can you make your experience of God 's presence part of everyday life? In this six-session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Jan Johnson covers the disciplines of prayer and of practicing God's presence. Going deeper in these areas will help you to draw closer to God in everything you do.

When you talk to God, do you ever wonder if He really hears? Do your prayers start to feel rote or routine? Do you sometimes feel you don’t even know how to pray? Jesus is known for turning situations upside down . . . and He can do the same in your prayer life. Your perspective on prayer and faith may never be the same again when you read artist and designer Kelly O’Dell Stanley’s delightfully accessible, innovative new book Praying Upside Down. Stanley uses imagery, simple techniques, and artwork to help you see God like never before and move your prayer life away from the preconceived and expected to a new level of intimacy. Praying Upside Down offers a fresh chance to learn something new, hear an answer you didn’t anticipate, and experience God in a more real, tangible way.

John Climacus (c. 579-649) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. His Ladder was the most widely used handbook of the ascetical life in the ancient Greek Church.

Vincent Brümmer's classic book on prayer from 1984 provides a comprehensive philosophical analysis of central issues regarding the nature and practice of prayer.This new edition has been substantially revised and updated. Serving as a valuable core text for students, this book also contributes to a number of current debates in theology and philosophy of religion: the debates on realism and religious belief, on the rationality of faith and the nature of theology, on the relation between religious belief and morality, on the relation between science and religion and the lively debate among evangelical Christians in America on the 'openness of God.'

Paying homage to prayer traditions from around the world and throughout history, this celebration of prayer covers everything from Pentacoastalist revivals to the sacred pipe to the Catholic rosary.

We don’t have to look far to see that our world is full of hardship and pain. It’s a matter of when, not if, suffering enters our lives or the lives of those we love. In those moments, how are we called to pray? Finding Peace through Prayer is a companion and guide for Christians living in hard times. There are many books that talk about “why” or “what” to pray—but Finding Peace through Prayer is a practical guide that shows you “how” to pray in times of sorrow and hardship. This book is an invitation for those who are experiencing suffering to discover the peace of Christ through prayerful practices. It’s a resource for those who want to pray for people in their lives that are enduring seasons of hardship. And it’s a manifesto for those who are familiar with the pain and agony of life, but long to keep trusting Jesus. Drawing from his own journey through suffering, Mitch Everingham gently walks readers through seven biblical ways to pray in their most difficult moments. These practices will be a balm for your soul, helping you to love Jesus and keep hold of your faith when it feels like life is falling apart. Finding Peace through Prayer is a book of practices for believers who live in hard times—and therefore, it’s a book for all Christians.

This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. Each theologian expresses a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour. Sheveland explores this unity in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks, showing how these authors privilege theology as practice, enactment, or simply as ethical. He uses the Renaissance genre of musical polyphony as a methodological tool by which to explore the aesthetic quality and the similarity-in-difference of the theological voices being compared. Polyphony's application to comparative theology includes the avoidance of caricature, domestication, and antagonism. In place of these is offered a fundamentally aesthetic paradigm by which to hear theological voices in terms of their unity-in-distinction.