Prayer : the cry for the kingdom
"Bringing our needs and desires or God has always stood at the heart of Christian prayer. But why is petitioning God so important? In Prayer: The Cry for the Kingdom noted theologian Stanley Grenz points to petitionary prayer as a crucial way for us to be involved with God's work in history. At the center of such prayer, Grenz argues, is the cry to God that his kingdom might come into the world." "Revised and completely rewritten, with the inclusion of additional material, and now featuring an insightful foreword by Eugene Peterson, Grenz's Prayer: The Cry for the Kingdom will help readers from every Christian tradition to foster a richer personal and communal life of prayer."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2005
Rev. ed View all formats and editions
W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., ©2005
xii, 131 pages ; 23 cm
9780802828477, 0802828477
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| Foreword, by Eugene Peterson | vii | ||||
| Preface | ix | ||||
| PROLOGUE: A Call to Prayer | 1 | (7) | |||
| 1. The Nature of Christian Prayer | 8 | (23) | |||
| 9 | (5) | |||
| 14 | (9) | |||
| 23 | (3) | |||
| 26 | (5) | |||
| 2. How Petitionary Prayer "Works" | 31 | (23) | |||
| 32 | (4) | |||
| 36 | (7) | |||
| 43 | (11) | |||
| 3. What Praying according to God's Will Means | 54 | (13) | |||
| 55 | (8) | |||
| 63 | (4) | |||
| 4. How to Pray according to God's Will | 67 | (26) | |||
| 67 | (2) | |||
| 69 | (15) | |||
| 84 | (6) | |||
| 90 | (3) | |||
| 5. Persisting in Prayer | 93 | (12) | |||
| 94 | (5) | |||
| 99 | (3) | |||
| 102 | (3) | |||
| 6. Practicing Effective Prayer | 105 | (17) | |||
| 107 | (4) | |||
| 111 | (5) | |||
| 116 | (6) | |||
| EPILOGUE: The Life of Prayer | 122 | (3) | |||
| Selected Bibliography | 125 |