Breaking Through God's Silence: A Guide to Effective Prayer--With a Treasury of Over One Hundred Prayers

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Simon and Schuster, 11 jun 1997 - 224 pagina's
The former chairman of the College of Preachers offers counsel to people who pray alone on the effectiveness of prayer, confidence in God, effective prayer techniques, and prayer's application to adversity.

This effective guide to prayer sheds light on the nature of our conversations with God and offers techniques that facilitate an openness and confidence during prayer. Although based on mainstream Christian theology, the book includes 100 prayers taken from all religious traditions.

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The Sound of Silence
11
How and Why We Pray
21
Breaking Through the Inner Barrier
27
The Voice at the Other End
48
Starting the Conversation
63
Cutting Through the Static
85
The Best Prayer and the Best Prayer
104
A Brief History of Prayer
124
Prayer for Skeptics
149
Recipes from Prayerful People
165
Ten Keys to Effective Prayer
176
A Guided Treasury of Prayers
185
Authors Note
211
Index
215
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Over de auteur (1997)

David Yount, an experienced pastoral counselor and previous Marriage Encounter leader, is the author of thirteen books. His column, Amazing Grace, is syndicated weekly by Scripps Howard to newspapers with a combined readership of 25 million.

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