Prayer

Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Timothy Keller ID: B00OSJC8SG

New York Times best-selling author and renowned pastor Timothy Keller explores the power of prayer. Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But aside from learning prayers by rote, few receive instruction or guidance in how to make the most of this essential Christian act – how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In Prayer, renowned pastor Timothy Keller delves into the many facets of this everyday act. With his trademark insights and energy, Keller offers brilliant and inspirational biblical guidance, as well as specific prayers for certain situations, such as dealing with grief, loss, love, and forgiveness. He discusses ways to make prayers more personal and powerful, and how to establish a practice of prayer that works for each listener. Dr. Keller’s previous books have sold more than one million copies. His Redeemer Presbyterian Church is not only a major presence in his home base of New York, it has also helped to launch more than 250 other churches in 48 cities around the world. His teachings have already helped millions, the majority of whom pray regularly. And with Prayer, he’ll show them how to find a deeper connection with God.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 9 hours and 4 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Penguin AudioAudible.com Release Date: November 4, 2014Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00OSJC8SG Best Sellers Rank: #34 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity #52 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Bible Study & Reference > Bible Study #523 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living
There are two topics I try to read books on regularly: the gospel and prayer. I read on the gospel because I need it to grow me, to humble me, to sanctify me, and to help me remember what God has done in Christ to save me. I read on prayer because my prayer life needs encouragement and guidance to strengthen my desire and skills at communicating with God.

Naturally, when I heard one of my favorite authors, Timothy Keller, was coming out with a book on prayer, I was eager to get my hands on a copy and dig in.

Prayer: Experiencing Prayer and Intimacy with God is a book that was birthed out of Keller’s realization of his own shortcomings in prayer. Both he and his wife were diagnosed with diseases during a certain season of their lives (his was thyroid cancer and hers was Crohn’s disease). This coupled with pastoring in Manhattan around the time of the September 11th terrorist attacks forced Keller to his knees and really begin to practice and wrestle with the concept of prayer.

Readers will sense within the first five pages just how well-read and well-thought-out Keller is in dealing with prayer. Keller sought to write on the essentials of prayer from a "theological, experiential, and methodological" perspective, and thus do something most books on prayer seldom do (1).

A Brief Summary

This book is divided into five parts, each comprising from two to five chapters. Part one is called "Desiring Prayer," which answers the "why?" question about prayer and digs into its necessity, mapping out the terrain for the rest of the book.
"Writing a book in your 50s will go twice as fast and be twice as good as if you try the same book in your 30s. It’s just good stewardship to wait."

That was Tim Keller’s advice to pastors who desire to write. And he would know, since by my count, Keller has written nine books in the last two and half years. Talk about prolific writing!

Keller’s latest work is simply entitled "Prayer." As he explains in the introduction, his aim is to combine the theological, experiential, and methodological in one book (1). He wants to drive home that prayer "is both conversation and encounter with God" (5).

We must know the awe of praising his glory, the intimacy of finding his grace, and the struggle of asking his help, all of which can lead us to know the spiritual reality of his presence. Prayer, then, is both awe and intimacy, struggle and reality. These will not happen every time we pray, but each should be a major component of our prayer over the course of our lives. (5)

Keller begins by acknowledging that he "discovered" prayer in the second half of his life with a series of moments: his teaching through the Psalms, the events of 9/11 (his wife implored him to pray together every night), and after his treatment for thyroid cancer (9ff.). This book, then, is the fruit of what he learned and what over the years, in both reading and in practice, he has discovered. Rather than giving a thorough review of this work, I will simply offer a couple of points that landed powerfully on me.
Like other reviewers I was looking forward to this latest work from Tim Keller. I even pre-ordered it. Being a book on Prayer with a subtitle of "Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God," I was expecting the author to share his personal experiences with prayer and how it enabled him to be ushered into the presence of God where he could be transparent with his Father in heaven, at least to one degree or another. But that’s not what this book provides. It is a somewhat tedious and often out of place mixture of evangelism, apologetics, theology, and history, with a few practical approaches to prayer at the end.

It’s main emphasis is on what Luther, Calvin, John Owen, Jonathan Edwards, J.I. Packer, Edmund Clowney, C.S. Lewis, and others, predominantly in the reformed tradition, have written about prayer with a few contributions from Augustine. In that regard the book is a helpful, although frantic, compendium of quotations and insights from these Godly men — it made me want to read more of John Owen’s work. A few quotes from other writers is fine when an author is making a point, but most chapters are entirely a summary of what others have written. The experiences and insights of the author are noticeably missing until a few of the last thirty pages.

Also difficult to find are the subtitled awe and intimacy. When the author’s own words are included he is far more likely to speak of prayer "as a duty and a discipline," that "is often draining, even an agony," "a struggle," something that requires "right performance.
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