Prayer: Where to start and how to keep going
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Prayer: Where to start and how to keep going
Join Archbishop Stephen Cottrell as he answers 10 questions on how to pray, beginning at "What is prayer and how do I start?" and finishing with "Now I’ve started praying, how do I keep going?" "It still feels a little presumptuous to write on this subject. I don’t claim any great expertise. But I...
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Question 10: Now I’ve started praying, how do I keep going?
When we pray, we are not putting money in the heavenly slot machine to get what we want or to make a transaction with God. Prayer isn’t just asking fo...
Question 9: How do I go deeper in prayer?
Reading the Bible each day is a basic part of the Christian diet. Other spiritual books, apps and podcasts can also be very helpful. I’ve tried to sig...
Question 8: How do I pray when prayer seems impossible?
Throughout Christian history, when people sought to deepen their relationship with God they went into the desert. They pursued isolation. This way of...
Question 7: How did Jesus teach us to pray?
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, he gave them a simple formula. He said, “When you pray, this is what you say” (Luke 11.2).
Question 6: Do I need words to pray?
Like so many things in life, so with prayer, going deeper often means less, not more.
Here are some ways of simplifying and purifying your pray...
Question 5: How do I pray with my family?
The question I’m going to explore here isn’t, of course, relevant to everyone – though it will be a very important one for some. And many of the princ...
Question 4: How do I build prayer into everyday life?
Most of us have routines that shape the day. One of the ways of developing a life of prayer is to weave times of prayer into these existing rhythms an...
Question 3: How should I pray?
When you were at school you were probably taught to put your hands together when you prayed. But in one of his many books about prayer, Henri Nouwen s...
Question 2: Where and when should I pray?
Some people say prayer is like eating. We don’t eat all the time, but we need regular meals to resource us for everything else that happens during the...
Question 1: What is prayer and how do I start?
Your wanting to pray is the beginning of a relationship with God that can grow and grow. And it can start anywhere.
Don’t worry if you find it d...
Introduction
There is no right way of praying. There are just the ways that are right for you. But there is also the great heritage of praying that we can learn fr...