Prayer Theology

New York Times bestselling author Joan Wester Anderson has chronicled the encounters of ordinary people with angels once again. In Guardian Angels, she shares remarkable stories of answered prayers that remind us that we are never alone. In this inspiring collection, the work of angels takes many forms, including miracles, healings, and heavenly visitations. These events all convey a single, urgent, and loving message: God answers prayer.

Craig Groeschel (lifechurch.tv) and his church have hosted an international multichurch campaign called One Prayer, a month-long concerted focus on unifying the many different, diverse churches participating by praying together and serving their local communities. This compilation book features chapters by seventeen passionate church leaders, including Andy Stanley, Francis Chan, Jentezen Franklin, Perry Noble, Steven Furtick, and others.

Pope Francis celebrates women in the Church and the world, seen through the lens of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in this enlightening new work.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 110 Primarily directed at priests and people thinking of ordination as priests or deacons, this is a short but in-depth introduction to priesthood and the diaconate. This book speaks of ministry in all its ordained forms as priestly because it makes the fundamental point that the Church is essentially the priestly body of Jesus Christ, our great High Priest. Priestly ministry is more about who you are than what you do. The primary vocation of a priest is to grow in holiness; that is, to try to become more and more Christ-like. This book contains much to guide, ...

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 14 The Stations of the Cross are a means of human participation in the Passion and death of Christ. By sharing his death in this act of contemplation, however, we also share his Resurrection. The stations have shaped devotions in the Catholic Church and beyond for centuries, particularly in Lent. In this set of meditations the author draws on biblical and theological sources, avoiding sentimental rhetoric which makes a direct assault upon the feelings without supplying any fullness of doctrine. They are the steps in a tragdey which is swallowed up in victory. The ...

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 83 In Christ the Kingdom of heaven has already come, yet in the Lord’s Prayer we continue to pray for its coming. We dare not identify the Church with the Kingdom, but in the Church we may experience here and now a foretaste of the life of the Kingdom and of the glorious liberty of the children of God. Through the mysteries of the Cross and Resurrection, Christians enter into an amazing liberty; they receive the manifold gifts of the Spirit, to live in communion with each other and with the whole angelic world, to grow beyond their natural limitations in time and ...

This audiobook contains both the biography and the writings of St. Catherine, a 15th century Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic (1447 - 1510). She was famous for her work among the sick and the poor, particularly during the plague which ravaged Genoa, where she died.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 206 I have conversations with people about how they pray the Jesus Prayer as they walk the city streets, as they travel on buses or on the Tube, as they cycle, or as they sit at home. From these experiences I have come more and more to see the Jesus Prayer as a way of praying well suited to urban life; a form of attentiveness practice that can help us to grow in God-experience amid the changes and chances of metropolitan living. This book explains the prayer, its ethos, and how to begin to practise it in daily life. Fr Bruce Batstone CJN is a founding Companion of ...

In this book, Pastor Jeffrey J. Meyers provides a simple guide in understanding the biblical order and practical benefits of a liturgical Christian worship service. The book is intended for church leaders and church members alike, to provide a biblical rationale for corporate worship on the Lord's Day and why such worship will look, sound, and feel more "traditional" than "contemporary" while avoiding pretentious or dead and musty liturgical traditions.

This is not your grandmother's prayer book! Praying to Change Your Life is an action-oriented, results-driven how-to guide for believers that glorifies God, transforms lives, and increases the power of your prayers. Through instruction, prayer exercises, personal stories, and testimonies, you will learn what prayer is, why you should pray, whom you pray to, and how to pray using the six categories of the model prayer: "Our Father who art in heaven..."

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 213 In increasingly busy and diverse lives what might it mean to live as priests, immersed in God and the world? This book explores a personal experience of ordained priesthood shaped by the Jesus Prayer in the context of the Catholic, charismatic and evangelical traditions. It explores the contemplative disciplines of Presence and Attentiveness to the overflowing life of God in all things. There is an invitation to all, ordained or not, to enter into a life stretched through the abundance of God. While realistic about the challenges we face, this book seeks to ...

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 44 Two of the great Saints of the church are examined particularly by A. M. Allchin in this brief study of their choice of religious life. The Saints are still living powers within the Church of Rome, Eastern Orthodoxy and the Anglican Communion reminding us of our common spiritual union.. This essay examines the assertion of unity closely in relation to St Francis and St Seraphim and finds that this unity is not only an ecclesiastical unity in the narrow sense, but rather an integration of each one of us within himself, and also a untiy with our fellow men and with ...

FAIRACRES PUBLICTIONS 212 Wendy Robinson (1934–2013) was a trained psychotherapist who became a member of the Russian Orthodox Church in England in 1980. To be able to combine these two vocations was, for her, to discover herself. She practised psychotherapy both with individual clients and, increasingly, with religious communities, both Catholic and Anglican, giving retreats and one-to-one counselling, and built up a strong and lasting connection with the Sisters of the Love of God in Oxford. She reflected on her dual vocation in lectures and articles, a selection of which are published ...

Originally published in 1904, Quiet Talks on Prayer focuses on the importance of prayer and how we are unaware of the power of prayer and this most intimate way of communicating with God.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 186 In recent years more and more Christians in the West have been discovering the many blessings of the Jesus Prayer. This prayer originated among the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the Eastern Mediterranean around fifteen hundred years ago, and for centuries has inspired and enabled Christians of the Orthodox Church to find a deeper relationship with God through the continual rhythmic repetition of the short prayer, ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me’. In this book, James F. Wellington tells the story of his own journey with the prayer, highlighting...

The Catholic and Christian faith is so deep and rich that it's hard to wrap your mind around it. For those interested in getting an overview of the Catholic faith, you'll learn about the early Church fathers, Apostolic Canons, the Holy Mass, liturgy, sacraments, prayers and devotions, cardinal and theological virtues, mortal and venial sin, the Doctrine of Purgatory and the many theologies of the Church (moral, mystical, ascetical, dogmatic).

When you touch the divine glory realm, you will never be satisfied with anything less! In this powerful prophetic message, best-selling author Robert Henderson extends an invitation to all believers who long to experience God in a deeper, more powerful way: You can encounter God’s glory! Based on Moses’ encounter with God in Exodus 33, Robert provides a biblical blueprint for experiencing new realms of God’s glory in our daily lives.

With specific principles and strategies to empower believers to combat demonic attacks and the temptation to return to old patterns, listeners will discover how to put on the full armor of God and develop a proactive strategy to maintain their deliverance, which includes removing everything from their lives that would give the enemy a legal right to put them back in bondage. Ruffin draws from her own experiences and gives specific strategies and warfare prayers to overthrow demonic plans, plots, and agendas to help Christians overcome the enemy.

There are many attributes of God and many books have been written to attempt to describe them so that we can comprehend the depth of His infinite, majestic grandeur. Many can name His attributes, they can describe His love, His grace, and they know the Omni’s. They can say He is omniscient, knowing all things, He is omnipotent, He is all-powerful and one of the most well-known is His omnipresence, He is everywhere. However, we often forget or belittle His omnipresence. It’s an attribute we know, but do we truly believe it? If we fully understood His omnipresence would we live ...

A Short and Easy Method of Prayer is an excellent manual on prayer for Christians. It teaches the importance of respectful silence in prayer, patience in prayer, collecting oneself inwardly, seeking God in love, and the total abandonment of oneself to God. Madame Guyon aimed at inducing the world to love God and to serve him with comfort and success, in a simple and easy manner. In essence, A Short and Easy Method of Prayer encourages us to take time with God and let the word of the divine enter our hearts, through praying and then waiting on God to speak to our hearts.