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Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference: Does It Make Any Difference
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Product Description
Multi-award winning spirituality writer Philip Yancey is loved throughout the world for his honest, insightful and inspirational writing. PRAYER: DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE? carries all the hallmarks of classic Yancey, a journalist by training. His quest to unravel the mysteries of prayer reads as the journal of a fellow traveller: questioning, challenging, lamenting the unexplainable and rejoicing in the discovery of awesome insights. His journey is beautifully illustrated with moving true stories drawn from around the world.
PRAYER: DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE? tackles the following questions: What is prayer? What difference does it make? Why and how should we pray? What about unanswered prayer? How should we understand prayer for physical healing?
Focusing on such a universal theme, this is potentially Yancey's biggest book yet. To date, his books have sold over 14 million copies, and have been translated into 25 languages. His first book with Hodder, SOUL SURVIVOR, sold over 90,000 copies in just five years.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #67633 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-17
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
A former journalist and writer by vocation, Yancey has written for a wide variety of magazines, including Reader's Digest and Christianity Today. Over the past three decades, Yancey has written more than 20 books, including Soul Survivor, Finding God in Unexpected Places, When Life Hurts, What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew.
Customer Reviews
The long journey into prayer
Yancey is, as always, concise and honest. Honesty is one of the trademarks of Yancey's writing, and you need a fair chunk of that when researching prayer. He acknowledges it's hard for most of us to pray, my favourite line: 'It's more important to God that you 'show up' than what you actually pray'.
In my long journey into prayer, this book helped me feel more 'normal'. He deals with all the problems I face. Very encouraging, made me want to keep on going.
The questions we all wanted answered.
Philip Yancey is a master at his work. Never does he offer a neat solution, but instead something more valuable; honest, sincere and real life reference. Pray is a language that not one of us is fluent, yet as father longs to hear the babbles of his new born child, so God is delighted that we approach with our requests. We might seldom get what we desires, however, we will get something much more valuable: God Himself. This is a book for those who wonder 'why bother praying?'.
Yes it does!
Philip Yancey is an accomplished and forthright Christian writer; he never pulls his punches and always provides plenty of food for thought. I strongly recommend you buy this, whether you struggle with your prayer life (and let's be honest here, we all do!) or don't have one.
