Product Information

Author / Philip Yancey

ISBN / 9789834386955

Publisher / PVM Harvest Resources by special arrangement with and permission of Zondervan

Publication Date / 2006

Format / Paperback

Language / English

No. of Pages / 368

Measurement / 22.7 x 15.4 x 2.0 cm

Weight / 560 g

Author Description

Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards for What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies each. He lives with his wife in Colorado.  

Product Description

Does prayer change us or God? Or both?

In his most powerful book since What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat – the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect – of our relationship with God.

PRAYER

Does prayer work? More personally, does it work the way we think it should? What can we really expect from prayer?

Written by one of the most significant Christian thinkers of our generation, Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? explores the questions surrounding prayer that many of us wonder but few of us know how to express. 

• Is God listening?
• Why should God care about me?
• Why do so many prayers go unanswered?
• Why does God let the world go on as it does and not intervene?
• Does prayer really help with physical healing?
• Why does God seem sometimes close and sometimes far away?
• Does prayer change God or change me?
• How can I make prayer more satisfying?

Yancey backs his answers with crystal clear insights into the importance God places on prayer and why we should value it. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? is an invitation to pray to a God who wants to interact with us, even to the extent of giving us influence over what happens. 

"If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer," writes Yancey. "I have now written twenty books, and in some way or other most of them circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those two themes converge." 

In a new epilogue Yancey writes about the accident that nearly paralyzed him after Prayer was published and how the experience convinced him, now more than ever, that prayer does make a difference.