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Most prayer books start where you are and try to make you feel better. This one starts with Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, and the Puritans - and works forward from there.
These men prayed under threat of execution, in prison, through plague. What they produced has outlasted five centuries because it was built on something more durable than personal encouragement: a clear view of who God is and what prayer actually is. Reading their prayers does not just give you words. It teaches you how to pray. Classic Protestant Prayerbook for Modern Christians brings 208 prayers from that tradition into present-tense English. Part One adapts historic prayers directly from Luther's Personal Prayer Book, Calvin's Geneva Liturgy, the Book of Common Prayer (1662), Bunyan, Baxter, Watson, Watts, and Matthew Henry. All public domain. All still alive. Parts Two through Six are original prayers written in that same spirit. You will find prayers for the moments that matter most. A prayer for when you wake up afraid. A prayer for a prodigal child you have been waiting on for years. A prayer for when God feels silent and you are still showing up anyway. A prayer for the marriage that is under strain. A prayer after sin, when guilt is louder than grace. A prayer for the person who is tired of being tired. A prayer for the 2am that will not end. Each prayer does two things. It gives you language for the moment you are in. And over time, it forms the kind of person who knows how to come before God honestly - not with performance, but with the weight of what is real. This is not a devotional for people who have their prayer life sorted. It is for people who know they do not, and who suspect the Reformers might have something to teach them about that.Wie gefällt Ihnen unser Shop?
