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Title: Transforming Power of Prayer: Deepening Your Friendship With God by J. M. Houston ISBN: 0-89109-937-9 Publisher: Navpress Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A transforming friendship
Comment: One of the very few recent books on prayer worth reading, Houston's book (formerly titled "The Transforming Friendship") presents prayer as a friendship with God that is personally transforming. Not a touchy-feely friendship and not a self-help transformation, this is the core of the Christian life. Filled with personal and biblical reflections, Houston also draws on his comprehensive knowledge of early church mothers and fathers in this rich book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Transforming
Comment: This book, The Transforming Power of Prayer; Deepening Your Friendship with God, examines the nature of prayer and how we can come to know the love of the Father through our sustained effort and discipline in prayer. Houston emphasizes that Christian prayer is prayer to the Father, through the Son, by the Holy Spirit. Christian prayer is guided by our right living and right thinking, and true praying means living in a way that is acceptable to God. Each of the fourteen chapters opens with a quote or two from notable theologians, and each chapter ends by quoting a prayer from a theologian. I found it frustrating that these quotes, as well as several statements in the book, were not accompanied by footnotes or references of some kind. Even to give Scriptural references would be helpful. More references would make it easier to pursue further many of the great thoughts that Houston presented. I found much of this book repetitious, and often rambling. Still, I found such of Houston books insightful. I liked chapter four, Entering into Prayer, especially his views on how prayer removes the alienation against God that sin brings into our lives. Prayer works to destroy the evils of sins by uniting us with God, the one person who can save us from evil that invades our hearts. Prayer is a spiritual warfare against temptations and evil tendencies. I also particularly like sections of chapter twelve, Prayer by the Friends of God, where Houston gives a good definition and contrast between meditation and contemplation. Houston points out throughout his book that prayer is called fourth by the Fathers love, made possible by the grace of Christ, and in union with the Holy Spirit. Prayer than, as the title of the book suggests, is a transforming friendship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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Title: The Mentored Life: From Individualism to Personhood by James M. Houston ISBN: 1576833186 Publisher: Navpress Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Heart's Desire: Satisfying the Hunger of the Soul by James m Houston, James M. Houston ISBN: 157383209X Publisher: Regent College Pub Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Wasting Time With God : A Christian Spirituality of Friendship With God by Klaus Issler, James Houston ISBN: 0830822801 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home by Richard J. Foster ISBN: 0060628464 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard ISBN: 1576832961 Publisher: Navpress Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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