In his most powerful book since What's So Amazing about Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew, Yancey probes the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect---the very heartbeat---of your relationship with God: prayer. In theory, prayer is the essential human act, a priceless point of contact between you and the God of the universe. In practice however, prayer is often frustrating, confusing, and fraught with mystery. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? explores the mysterious intersection where you and God meet and relate. Writing as a fellow pilgrim, Yancey explores the questions surrounding prayer that you may wonder about but not know how to express. Above all, Yancey shows you how to pray to a God who sees what lies ahead of you, knows what lies within you, and who invites you into an eternal partnership with Him---through prayer.
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In his most powerful message since What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey explores the intimate place where God and humans meet in this Prayer Ebook. Polls reveal that 90 percent of people pray. Yet prayer, which should be the most nourishing and uplifting time of the believer's day, can also be frustrating, confusing, and fraught with mystery. Yancey probes such questions as: *Is God listening? *Why should God care about me? *If God knows everything, what's the point of prayer? *Why do answers to prayer seem so inconsistent? *Why does God sometimes seem close and sometimes seem far away? *How can I make prayer more satisfying? Yancey tackles the tough questions and in the process comes up with a fresh new approach to this timeless topic. 'I have learned to pray as a privilege, not a duty,' he says, and he invites you to join him on this all-important journey.
Author Bio
Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written thirteen Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards for What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies. Yancey lives with his wife in Colorado. SPANISH BIO: Philip Yancey es periodista, autor de varios exitos de libreria y conferencista. Sus mas de veinte libros son conocidos por su honestidad, profundas busquedas en torno a la fe cristiana, especialmente en lo que concierne a interrogantes y dilemas personales. Millones de avidos lectores lo consideran como un companero confiable en la busqueda de una fe que importe. Philip y su esposa Janet viven en Colorado.
Library Journal
Editor-at-large of Christianity Today and much-published author Yancey
(Reaching for the Invisible God) takes on a deep and difficult subject in his
latest book. Collections of prayers are many; admonitions to pray are endless
but what good does prayer actually do? Prayer, to Yancey, has many styles and
purposes, e.g., lament, gratitude, and grace. Gently and with intelligence
and compassion, Yancey works toward a vision of prayer as a kind of "awkward
rehearsal" and, ultimately, toward the kind of conversation humankind had with
God at the beginning of Creation. Highly recommended. Copyright 2006 Reed
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Publisher's Weekly
Yancey strikes a moving chord with this book that is more full of yearning and
wonder than it is of easy answers. Prayer, he writes, is our partnership with
God, our chance to join forces with God's power to confront suffering and evil
head-on. Yancey is candid about his nagging sense of failure in prayer, but
the book is suffused with a cautious hope; he writes of his growing
confidence and joy as his prayer life has deepened from a spiritualized to-do
list to a conversational communion with God. The key, Yancey writes, is that
prayer is a window into knowing the mind of God, whose kingdom is entrusted to
all of us frail, selfish people on earth. As with his other books, Yancey
draws upon his international travels to bring a fresh perspective to the
topic, detailing, in nations such as Romania and South Africa, how he believes
prayer has transformed hearts and permitted bloodless change. The book's
strength lies in its balance, with Yancey holding equally important ideals in
a beautiful tension: action and meditation, doubt and certainty, and the
unchanging God with the God who appears so moved by people's petitions in the
Bible that he changes his mind. Yancey also offers some startling and
insightful observations about Jesus' own prayer life. (Oct.) Copyright 2006
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