A Praying Life: Connecting With God in a Distracting World
by Miller, Paul E.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-05-15
Publisher(s): Navpress Pub Group
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Summary
Written like an organized blog, A Praying Life is an honest look at the difficulties of prayer, unanswered prayers, and successes in prayer. Readers will appreciate Paul Miller's down-to-earth approach and practical nature. Parents will find his family-life experiences especially helpful.
Author Biography
Paul Miller is director of seeJesus.net, an organization that develops interactive Bible studies for small groups. He is the author of Love Walked Among Us (NavPress), The PrayerLife Study , The Person of Jesus , an interactive study of the wonder of Jesus and his love. He also travels widely and teaches Jesus Weekends, Person of Jesus seminars, and PrayerLife seminars. Paul and his wife, Jill, have six children and live near Philadelphia.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 9 |
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| "What Good Does It Do?" | p. 13 |
| Where We Are Headed | p. 19 |
| Learning to Pray Like a Child | |
| Become Like a Little Child | p. 29 |
| Learn to Talk with Your Father | p. 37 |
| Spending Time with Your Father | p. 43 |
| Learning to Be Helpless | p. 53 |
| Crying "Abba" - Continuously | p. 63 |
| Bending Your Heart to Your Father | p. 69 |
| Learning to Trust Again | |
| Understanding Cynicism | p. 77 |
| Following Jesus out of Cynicism | p. 83 |
| Developing an Eye for Jesus | p. 95 |
| Learning to Ask Your Father | |
| Why Asking Is So Hard | p. 103 |
| Why We Can Ask | p. 113 |
| How Personal Is God? | p. 119 |
| What Do We Do with Jesus' Extravagant Promises About Prayer? | p. 129 |
| What We Don't Ask For: "Our Daily Bread" | p. 141 |
| What We Don't Ask For: "Your Kingdom Come" | p. 149 |
| Surrender Completely: "Your Will Be Done" | p. 155 |
| Living in Your Father's Story | |
| Watching a Story Unfold | p. 165 |
| A Father's Love | p. 173 |
| Unanswered Prayer: Understanding the Patterns of Story | p. 179 |
| How God Places Himself in the Story | p. 189 |
| Praying Without a Story | p. 195 |
| Hope: The End of the Story | p. 205 |
| Living in Gospel Stories | p. 211 |
| Praying in Real Life | |
| Using Prayer Tools | p. 221 |
| Keeping Track of the Story: Using Prayer Cards | p. 225 |
| Prayer Work | p. 235 |
| Listening to God | p. 239 |
| Prayer Journaling: Become Aware of the Interior Journey | p. 249 |
| Real-Life Praying | p. 257 |
| Unfinished Stories | p. 263 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 269 |
| Notes | p. 271 |
| About the Author | p. 279 |
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