Prayer, Richard J. Foster
Prayer, Richard J. Foster
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Prayer

Author: Richard J. Foster

Narrator: Terence Aselford

Unabridged: 9 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperOne

Published: 02/06/2007


Synopsis

Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest. Coming to prayer is like coming home, Foster says. ""Nothing feels more right, more like what we are created to be and to do. Yet at the same time we are confronted with great mysteries. Who hasn't struggled with the puzzle of unanswered prayer? Who hasn't wondered how a finite person can commune with the infinite Creator of the universe? Who hasn't questioned whether prayer isn't merely psychological manipulation after all? We do our best, of course, to answer these knotty questions but when all is said and done, there is a sense in which these mysteries remain unanswered and unanswerable . . . At such times we must learn to become comfortable with the mystery."" Foster shows how prayer can move us inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to minister to others. He leads us beyond questions to a deeper understanding and practice of prayer, bringing us closer to God, to ourselves, and to our community.

About Richard J. Foster

Richard J. Foster is the author of several bestselling books, including Celebration of Discipline, Streams of Living Water, Life with God, and Prayer, which was Christianity Today's Book of the Year and the winner of the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is the founder of Renovaré, an organization and a movement committed to the renewal of the church of Jesus Christ in all its multifaceted expressions, and the editor of The Life with God Bible.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on February 16, 2013

Because of my training in the history of Christianity, I have been privileged to be introduced to many of the mystical or devotional classics, from Julian to Tozer, from Bonaventure to Hilton, from the Jesus Prayer monk to Brother Lawrence. My knowledge is hardly encyclopedic, but I say this in orde......more

Goodreads review by James on January 05, 2023

Edit: The review below gave this book 2 stars, and on this reading, I revised it to make it 4 stars. I did a church small group on each of the 3 parts of the book with some folks at my church and we found it good fodder for discussion. I read Richard Foster's Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home. I......more

Goodreads review by Shelby on December 31, 2024

The most important and impactful book I read this year. “With simplicity of the heart we allow ourselves to be gathered up into the arms of the Father and let him sing his love song over us.” Read one chapter at a time!......more

Goodreads review by Luke on March 01, 2025

2nd time through. I really appreciated how this book walks you through every kind of spiritual movement/posture possible, but just does it through the lens of prayer. I’ll most likely read it again in my life.......more

Goodreads review by Marisa on December 18, 2007

There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus--That is what I learned after reading this wonderful exposition on prayer. The book is basically a compilation of years of research on the subject of prayer. Richard Foster reviews every type of prayer imaginable, supports each style with historical facts, pe......more