Why Pray? Selected from Prayer: What Difference Does it Make

Yancey, Philip.

Why Pray? Selected from Prayer: What Difference Does it Make Philip Yancey. - Grand Rapids, MI Zondervan, c2006. - 351 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-350).

Part I: Keeping company with God -- Our deepest longing -- View from above -- Just as we are -- The God who is -- Coming together -- Part II: Unraveling the mysteries -- Why pray? -- Wrestling match -- Partnership -- What difference does it make? -- Does prayer change God? -- Ask, seek, knock -- Part III: The language of prayer -- Yearning for fluency -- Prayer grammar -- Tongue-tied -- The sound of silence -- Part IV: Prayer dilemmas -- Unanswered prayer : whose fault? -- Unanswered prayer : living with the mystery -- Prayer and physical healing -- What to pray for -- Part V: The practice of prayer -- Prayer and me -- Prayer and others -- Prayer and God.


Prayer--Christianity.

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