First published in 1992, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True HomePrayer: Finding the Heart's True Home has become a classic on its eponymous subject. Awarded Christianity TodayChristianity Today's Book of the Year award and the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Gold Medallion award, PrayerPrayer continues to receive widespread acclaim as one of the most thorough and insightful treatments of this central spiritual practice.
Following the structure of his 1.2 million copy-selling Celebration of DisciplineCelebration of Discipline, PrayerPrayer explores three spiritual "movements" of prayer: inward, upward, and outward. Within each movement he looks at seven different types of prayer, for a total exploration of twenty-one separate forms of prayer.
Coming to prayer is like coming home, Foster says. "Nothing feels more right, more like what we are created to be and to do." This accessible, rich, and reliable guide shows how each of the various forms of prayer can move us inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to minister to others.
Richard J. Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. He has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado. He earned his undergraduate degree at George Fox University in Oregon and his Doctor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Foster is best known for his 1978 book Celebration of Discipline, which examines the inward disciplines of prayer, fasting, meditation, and study in the Christian life, the outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service, and the corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration. It has sold over one million copies. It was named by Christianity Today as one of the top ten books of the twentieth century.
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