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Books > Christianity > Christian Worship > Christian prayer
Prayer is a vital part of the Christian life but people often
struggle with actually getting on and doing it. This book offers 80
imaginative and creative ideas for setting up 'prayer stations',
practical ways of praying that involve the senses - touching,
tasting, smelling, seeing, and hearing, rather than simply
reflecting, as we bring our hopes, fears, dreams and doubts to God.
Developed from material tried and tested with small groups, the
ideas here provide activities ranging from bubble prayers to clay
pot prayers (via just about everything else in between), and have
been designed to be used with grown-ups - of all ages!
Where in the world was Jesus when he prayed? Where is any one of us
when we pray? Since we are embodied creatures, our prayer location
can be mapped onto space-time coordinates. Since we are social
creatures, our prayers are also situated within our social
locations. But do these sets of coordinates exhaustively identify
the place that prayer takes when truly entered into? Conversely,
can either set totally prevent prayer from taking place there? The
studies in When Prayer Takes Place explore dimensions of these
issues traced in selected texts from both parts of the Christian
Bible.
Foreword by Bear GryllsFollowing on from the success of Red Moon
Rising, which tells the story of the first five years of the 24-7
prayer movement, Dirty Glory describes stories of transformation,
from a walled city of prostitution in Mexico to the nightclubs of
Ibiza, and invites people to experience the presence of God through
prayer. An autobiographical adventure story spanning four
continents, describing one of the most exciting movements of the
Holy Spirit in our time, Dirty Glory will inspire and equip those
dissatisfied with the status quo and passionate about the
possibilities for spiritual and social transformation in our time.
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