With our recent teaching looking at the Lord’s Prayer, we wanted to provide you with additional resources to help connect you with Christ while deepening and widening our prayer lives together. We hope you find one or two of these can press you toward a greater understanding of the love and grace of God found in Jesus.
Practices:
Lectio Divina is practice used throughout church history of integrating prayer, bible reading, and contemplation all together - A helpful introduction can be found here. An article on it from Richard Foster can be found here. Click here for a simple one page breakdown.
Examen or Prayer of Examen is another contemplative practice that brings greater awareness of God’s presence throughout the day. Here’s a good introduction and breakdown, and Intervarsity shares a blog with an invitation and experience of Examen.
Podcast//Teaching//Article:
Dr. Curt Thompson has written a lot on the soul, shame, and neuroscience. Here he offers thoughts and prayer practices for those that struggle with feeling overwhelming
Tim Keller gives a sermon on prayer and the Psalms.
Jen Wilkin integrates prayer when we struggle to understand the Bible.
A collection of prayers for Advent from Bible Study Tools.
Books:
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook - Adele Calhoun - A great resource giving introductions and examples of many practices and habits of the Christian life.
57 Words that Changed the World - Darrell Johnson - Small book on the Lord’s Prayer
Prayer - Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God - By Tim Keller - Pure gold here. (Here’s 20 quotes from the book)