When You Pray Revised Edition
Description
Prayer is one of the most important areas of a Christian's life. Written in 2010 by spiritual formation leader, Bishop Rueben P. Job, When You Pray has reached over 20,000 readers since its publication. T
his daily prayer guide offers a full year of readings and scripture and is an excellent tool to use in daily prayer time. Each four-page weekly segment includes daily office of scripture, prayer, offering of self and blessing plus a brief essay from the author and collection of quotes from well-known voices in spiritual formation. The new edition will include the same weekly scripture suggestions and essays with refreshed quotes and additional material and prayers. In addition, readers will find helps in the back of the book offer ways to explore prayer as a group or as a family.
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Rueben P. Job was a United Methodist bishop, pastor and acclaimed author and served as World Editor of The Upper Room publishing program. Best-known for the classic book, Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living, he also authored or co-authored A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants, A Wesleyan Spiritual Reader, Living Fully, Dying Well, Listen, and co-edited Finding Our Way: Love and Law in The United Methodist Church. Bishop Job also chaired the Hymnal Revision Committee that developed the 1989 United Methodist Hymnal.
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- User's Guide
- Weekly Readings and Themes
- Week 1 Looking Forward
- Week 2 Where Righteousness Is at Home
- Week 3 Who Are You Looking For?
- Week 4 Here I Am
- Week 5 Alarming Threats and Faithful Response
- Week 6 Waiting for the Light
- Week 7 When God Gets Our Attention
- Week 8 Come and See
- Week 9 Follow Me
- Week 10 Teach Us How to Live
- Week 11 The Way Disciples Live
- Week 12 In Need of Healing
- Week 13 Looking for the Right Way
- Week 14 Jesus as Our Teacher
- Week 15 Listening to Jesus
- Week 16 Learning Who We Are
- Week 17 Discipleship Is Not Too Costly
- Week 18 Life Transformed
- Week 19 Jesus Does the Unexpected
- Week 20 Hope: Promise and Fulfillment
- Week 21 Truth on Trial
- Week 22 Jesus Goes on Ahead
- Week 23 You Can Trust Me
- Week 24 When Faith Overcomes Fear
- Week 25 The Good Shepherd
- Week 26 A Faithful Walk
- Week 27 Always in God's Presence
- Week 28 Jesus Prays for Our Unity
- Week 29 Power Beyond Our Own
- Week 30 God Made Known
- Week 31 Go Where the Wounds Are
- Week 32 Who Will Lead Us?
- Week 33 What Will People Say?
- Week 34 Do Not Be Afraid
- Week 35 Translating Good News into Good Actions
- Week 36 Chosen and Sent
- Week 37 When Innocents Suffer
- Week 38 Prayer, Compassion, and the Needs of the World
- Week 39 Teach Us to Pray
- Week 40 Guarding Against Greed
- Week 41 God's Pleasure
- Week 42 Love Trumps Division
- Week 43 Whom Shall We Follow?
- Week 44 Where Shall We Sit?
- Week 45 God's Family Includes All God's Children
- Week 46 Forgiveness
- Week 47 What Are You Arguing About?
- Week 48 God Is at Work in You
- Week 49 Living as a Child of God
- Week 50 Privilege and Responsibility of Riches
- Week 51 To Whom Do We Belong?
- Week 52 All Things Are Possible With God
- Bibliography
- Lectionary Guide
