Here is an 82 word summary of Miller’s A Praying Life. We don’t need a praying life because that is our duty. That would wear thin quickly. We need time to be with our Father every day because every day our hearts and the hearts of those around us are overgrown with weeds. We need …
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Mar
28
A Praying Life: Pitfalls to Avoid
In A Praying Life, Paul Miller explores two common ways we go wrong when it comes to hearing God’s voice in our life and how we can correctly discern when God is speaking to us. “Word Only”—Going Wrong by Not Listening. If we focus exclusively on God’s written Word when looking for God’s activity in …
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Mar
23
A Praying Life: I’ll keep you in my prayers…
Ouch…this quote from A Praying Life might hurt a little. It is short, so read it a couple of times. “I’ll keep you in my prayers” is the easiest way to back away politely. Roughly translated it means, “I have every intention of praying for you, but because I’ve not written it down, it is …
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Mar
21
A Praying Life: Stay in the Story
More from A Praying Life. There is so much packed in here that I would encourage you to read it twice. How do we live and pray in light of God’s Upper Story while we are living life in our Lower story? We need to look for Him, wait for Him, and expect to find …
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Mar
15
A Praying Life: Who? Me?!
Sometimes prayer is difficult because we refuse to see our inabilities to affect real, lasting change in our lives or the lives of people around us. How much time do we spend trying to change our kids? Parents? Siblings? Co-workers? How often does it work out for us? Not very often. Until we become convinced …
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