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June 29, 2019

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Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

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Growing Deep in God: Integrating Theology and Prayer by Edmund Chan

Read by Melcom The book is broken up into four parts and is the first book I've read this year on prayer. The first part and by far the best, Chan outlines the right theology that is required for us to approach prayer. He argues that Jesus not only left us with a formula in the form of the Lord's prayer but also showed us that God is not like the friend in Luke 11: 5-8 that would only get up to help his friend after much persistence but is instead willing to give much more than what we asks for. He also argues how important prayer is to both our service and soul and uses Jesus as an example. He next argues that prayer must be God centered and Spirit empowered. He warns against spiritual experiences that are untethered to the word of God and points to the importance of being thelogically contemplative and that ultimately right theology points to Christ who in turn informs our prayers. The second part of the book argues how prayer is warfare and how many Christi...

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