The Elements of Prayer: Learning to Pray in Real LifeNew World Library, 8 Feb 2011 - 128 halaman What is prayer? How does one pray? How does one communicate with a higher power about the things that really matter in life? In his twenty-five years as a pastor, Joe Jewell has heard these questions more than any others. The Elements of Prayer is Jewell's answer. With the understanding that prayer, like writing, is something everyone can do but that many struggle to do well, Jewell uses Strunk and White's classic guide, The Elements of Style, as a model for his exploration of prayer. Through rules of usage, form, composition, and approach, along with a playful glossary, the book bolsters our understanding of, and confidence in, the art of prayer. Forgoing strict religious doctrine, Jewell's method seeks to “outline rather than fill in,” trusting readers to find their own authentic voice in this essential element of spiritual life. |
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... Sometimes , but usually only in special cases : great grief , deep despair , joy beyond measure . Prayer , after all , is communication intense , personal , intimate conversation with God . As such , it should be as clear and authentic ...
... Sometimes , but usually only in special cases : great grief , deep despair , joy beyond measure . Prayer , after all , is communication intense , personal , intimate conversation with God . As such , it should be as clear and authentic ...
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... sometimes doesn't , and the fourth chapter addresses some words and expressions that are easily misused and why that matters . Finally , chapter five , " An Approach to Prayer , " is designed , like its model , to give anyone a compass ...
... sometimes doesn't , and the fourth chapter addresses some words and expressions that are easily misused and why that matters . Finally , chapter five , " An Approach to Prayer , " is designed , like its model , to give anyone a compass ...
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... Sometimes what counts is simply the pray- ing itself. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is in- jury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where ...
... Sometimes what counts is simply the pray- ing itself. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is in- jury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where ...
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... sometimes pray for a new Cadillac. It was easy to make fun of praying for a luxury car, but when you recognize that it represents someone seeking what God wants of him or her, you realize more is going on than you might have first ...
... sometimes pray for a new Cadillac. It was easy to make fun of praying for a luxury car, but when you recognize that it represents someone seeking what God wants of him or her, you realize more is going on than you might have first ...
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Halaman 2 - O divine Master, grant that I may not so much Seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Halaman 2 - DIVINE MASTER, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Halaman 15 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Halaman 15 - Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.
Halaman 5 - Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is unquiet until it rests in thee...
Halaman 34 - And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee; remove this cup from me; yet not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Halaman 23 - Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them, the Lord bless you, and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance on you, and give you peace.
Halaman 23 - May the Lord bless you and keep you, may the Lord shine his face upon you, may the Lord lift up his countenance on you and give you peace.
Halaman 12 - ... for a scheme of procedure. In some cases the best design is no design, as with a love letter, which is simply an outpouring, or with a casual essay, which is a ramble. But in most cases, planning must be a deliberate prelude to writing. The first principle of composition, therefore, is to foresee or determine the shape of what is to come and pursue that shape.
Halaman 25 - The drive to illumination or understanding is part and parcel of what it means to be human. To seek it consciously is a wise thing, but be careful — answers and understanding are not always the same thing.