Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? Does it change God's mind or ours or both? This book is an invitation to communicate with God the Father who invites us into an eternal partnership through prayer.
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.
Writing as a fellow pilgrim, bestselling author Philip Yancey probes such questions as:
In this powerful read, Yancey tackles the tough questions and, in the process, comes up with a fresh new approach to this timeless topic.
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- Explores relevant questions that most people have had concerning prayer
- Presents drop-in boxes with reflections on prayer from various sources as examples of actual down-to-earth encounters with prayer
- Studies prayer from the perspective of someone who is in his own pilgrimage to understand it better
Keeping Company with God
- Our Deepest Longing
- View from Above
- Just As We Are
- The God Who Is
- Coming Together
Unraveling the Mysteries
- Why Pray?
- Wrestling Match
- Partnership
- What Difference Does It Make?
- Does Prayer Change God?
- Ask, Seek, Knock
The Language of Prayer
- Yearning for Fluency
- Prayer Grammar
- Tongue-Tied
- The Sound of Silence
Prayer Dilemmas
- Unanswered Prayer: Whose Fault
- Unanswered Prayer: Living with the Mystery
- Prayer and Physical Healing
- What to Pray For
The Practice of Prayer
- Prayer and Me
- Prayer and Others
- Prayer and God
- Epilogue
“Yancey strikes a moving chord with this book that is more full of yearning and wonder than it is of easy answers.” —
--Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Directness and liveliness of illustration and argument, theological and readability that may make it accessible even to those coming to faith, Bible reading, or prayer for the first time.”
--Christianity Today
“Interestingly, the experience of reading Prayer is similar to the experience of prayer itself: a meandering journey with streaks of brilliance, communion, illumination and satisfaction.”
--Plain Dealer