The Prayer: Deepening Your Friendship with God

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David C. Cook, 2007 - Religion - 317 pages

Dr. James Houston does not see the nature of prayer as a dreary exercise or a skill to be mastered, but rather as a valuable chance to deepen your friendshiop with God. How you pray is often determined by how you perceive God. It is "a matter of theology and ethics, both thinking and doing."

Be led into the depths of essential spiritual formation by one of the great spiritual mentors of our time and know God on a deeper level.

About the author (2007)

Dr. James M. Houston is a highly acclaimed scholar and pioneer in the field of evangelical spirituality. He came to North America from England in 1968 to lead Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, an international graduate school of Christian studies. Today he is a Regent Board of Governors' Professor in Spiritual Theology. He earned an M.A. in Edinburgh, and an M.A., B.Sc., and D. Phil. from Oxford. He is also the author of In Pursuit of Happiness and The Hearth's Desire, among other titles.

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