A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
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Headline: Draw closer to God in the ordinary moments of your day.
Through lyrical anecdotes, Southern wit, and scriptural reflection, Pastor Thomas Steagald offers this sprawling oak of a work, rooted deeply in a life of prayer. This sepia-toned memoir takes you on Steagald’s daily pastoral rounds from pre-dawn rising to a rest establish only in the assurance of Christ’s mercy. In between is a richly- textured account of small moments seized for consecration – prayers in the shower, coffee at Hardee’s, choir practice and the surprises that test our perception of what in our lives is God’s business. “It is our faith, and by faith I really mean trust, that no person, no situation, no circumstance exists lacking Him, or devoid of Him, or apart from His grace.” So it is that Steagald dismantles the strict compartments of our ordinary” lives and invites us to offer our entire beings to Christ.
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This is an intensely personal, sometime painfully real account of Paul Millers failures and success in prayer. It is a excellent balance of theology and practical advice about how to live a praying life. I have read a few literary books on prayer that give excellent examples of what is and is not orthodox. This is not that type of book. Paul shares how the difficulties in his life have driven him to his knees in a way peace and prosperity would never have. This book has practical advice for parents, marriages, work etc. There are few aspects of life that Miller does not touch on. One of the best things I have learned from this book is that prayer is hard. I regularly feel guilt that prayer is not simple. Miller clarified that prayer would be simple in Eden, but the fall corrupted our ability to connect with God. I would highly recommend this book for persons frustrated with prayer, and for persons who need to be more real about how broken their relationship is with God. I hope to listen to this book many more times. This is a excellent book for a name who wants to know more about prayer, and a name who thinks they already know enough probably needs it even more. It is one of persons books that draw’s you to pray and worship while you are reading it.
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
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During college I received some excellent advice from one of the professors: read at least one book on prayer a year. Since that time I confess that I haven’t permanently followed his advice, but nonetheless I have read a variety of books on prayer. Paul Miller’s A Praying Life is the first book on prayer that I have read and has really motivated me to pray. Usually, after reading books on prayer there is guilt accompanied by a rigorous praying schedule only to be followed a few days or weeks later by abject failure.
Miller’s book is different.
Here’s why: Miller ties prayer together with the gospel. Prayer is placed within the spectrum of our sin and absolute need for a savior. Our dependency and need for Christ is the proper starting point for developing a praying life. Because of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection we now have a relationship with the Father. Now we have the freedom to pray. Now we have the motivation to pray. We are compelled to talk to our Father because of the beauty of the gospel.
A needy heart is a praying heart. When we admit that we are sinners saved by grace we will be constrained by the like of Christ to converse with our Father. In many respects we don’t need a better understanding of prayer as much as we need a fuller, deeper, and more glorious understanding of our sin and God’s magisterial grace. The gospel is impetus toward a praying life.
Miller’s book is also unique in relating our praying life to our suffering life. He does not shy away from the hard reality of suffering or the mystery of “unanswered prayer.” Miller’s own life tales provide a window into a normal, everyday praying life. The tales of his family tree, especially the challenges with his daughter’s autism offer a real, honest, and encouraging look at prayer.
On a purely practical level, I really appreciated his thought of the prayer cards. Prayer lists are mechanical and regularly depersonalized. This is the way I used to pray; effective my way down a list checking off things as I have concluded my moral duty. Miller suggests using prayer cards that apply praying scripture and point requests for individual people and circumstances. I judge this is a better alternative to prayer lists.
Arthur Morey narrated the book. His reading was okay. It seemed to lack a bit of verve and passion. Nonetheless, it was the book itself that kept me coming back, not the presentation.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is by far the best book on prayer I have ever read, and I have read a few. As a replacement for of feeling guilty, confused, and discouraged about prayer, I find I want to pray. Miller, using everyday tales from his own life, writes a simple but profound book on prayer. The last section gives the reader some tools in how to use prayer cards and a prayer journal. Paul Miller wants to give us a larger picture of prayer. He invites us to see prayer as getting involved in the tale God is writing in our lives, lacking sugar coating that sometimes prayer is hard. He fully addresses why we don’t pray, yet lacking condemning us. As a replacement for he invites us, through the use of Scripture and his personal journey, to see that prayer is a conversation with our Father about our life. He encourages us to jump in and get involved with the tale God is telling which is as much about changing us as it is about changing our circumstances. Yet he never discourages us from asking God about persons circumstances we need and want changed! This is one of the few books that I have finished and want to start over again—it was that excellent.
I have recommended this book to everyone I have talked to in the last few weeks and this is really the first book review I have written in order to recommend it to the Amazon audience.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
A wonderful book of practical and extremely helpful information about prayer and our relationship with God.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Sometimes we reflect we need more or better prayer in persons times when we feel distant from God. Or, maybe our prayers need to be more “real” – dealing with the real issues of our lives. In this readable book, Paul Miller tells us how he has approached prayer in his personal quest to have a closer relationship with God. Over the years, he has learned to avoid some prayer methods (eg ACTS) and to endorse others (eg prayer cards). He challenges cynicism as much as come-what-may attitudes about prayer.
This book is more of a personal experience essay than an how-to guide. Many of the tales – especially persons about his family tree – are intensely personal. For me, some of these tales crossed the boundary of what should be shared in public about internal family tree matters. This is not a fatal flaw of the book, though, as it reflects Miller’s desire to tell his readers about the intensely personal scenery of prayer.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5