Eugene H. Peterson speaks to Christians who realize the necessity for prayer and yearn for it but who find their prayer unconvincing and unsatisfying. Addressing the causes of this dissatisfaction, Answering God offers guidelines for using the Psalms as dynamic tools for prayer.
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The Best Book on Prayer I've Read:
This book was my introduction to Eugene Peterson. I immediately fell in love with it. The truth within it's pages has transformed my prayer life. Since reading this book, I have read several other of his books, but I always come back to this one.
A good start for praying the psalms:
I've found Peterson's work very helpful and a good introduction to praying the psalms. I wish that it would include more of a corporate sense of worship rather than a private or individual approach. This reflects my own bias that our faith in the west is too often centered on the individual rather than the body of Christ.
Read the psalms out loud as a prayer to God:
Certain parts of the book helped me to desire reading the Psalms as prayers to God. If you are into lecture type reading then this book is for you. What I like to see in books is the person's walk with God - his reading of the Psalms and how they affected him in learning to trust and love God. I did not finished the book, BUT I am reading the Psalms as prayers to God.
This is the book that set me free to pray:
Until I read this book, I felt that I ought to pray, even wanted to pray, but when I sat down to do it prayer seemed so complicated and burdensome, and I would come away with a haunting feeling that I never got it "right". This book taught me that prayer means listening, and responding to God--not just talking at him, or coming at him with lists. It set me free to rest in the presence of God, something I often enough ended up doing anyway, but then would feel guilty for. After all, wasn't I supposed to be... more info
