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Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
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After experiences like this, it is tempting to devour all Keller on my to-be-read shelf before moving on to anybody else. He speaks my heart language as a reader. He insists on approaching issues in context, going back to find how thinkers over time have dealt with them. He dives through what must be voluminous reading of dense material, sometimes in the now archaic language of earlier ages, only to price and enthusiastically convey easily accessible and applicable nuggets of Truth.
After examining the subject of prayer with him, the reader feels like he has experienced the subject in the round, has experienced on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand, and has enjoyed the whole thing. However you are practicing prayer, Christian, you will find in Timothy Keller encouragement for what you are doing right, and challenge for how to experience more of God's Presence and direction through prayer. Words like safe and wise comes to mind with him with more urgency than a word like informative.
After examining the subject of prayer with him, the reader feels like he has experienced the subject in the round, has experienced on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand, and has enjoyed the whole thing. However you are practicing prayer, Christian, you will find in Timothy Keller encouragement for what you are doing right, and challenge for how to experience more of God's Presence and direction through prayer. Words like safe and wise comes to mind with him with more urgency than a word like informative.
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“As far as I can see, prayer has been ordained only for the helpless. . . . Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.”
― Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
― Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
Reading Progress
January 25, 2015
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January 25, 2015
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June 3, 2016
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June 3, 2016
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November 4, 2016
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June 27, 2019
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June 27, 2019
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"“Mediocrity is a hard word to apply to oneself.� Flannery O’Connor"
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June 27, 2019
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"The mutual conclusion of Augustine‘s Confessions and Flannery O’Connor: “Living well depends on ordering one‘s life.�"
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June 28, 2019
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"In order to embarrass some of the more sophisticated black people of Selma into committing themselves, he worked the surrounding rural areas, where he found a number of surprisingly tough, gritty independent black farmers, men who could, in some instances, barely read or write. He brought them into his camp and had them speak at meetings, in order to shame the better-educated people of Selma."
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June 30, 2019
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"Keller translates the literal of David‘s gratitude in 2 Samuel 7:27 that God‘s Word helped David FIND THE HEART to pray.
That’ll blog."
That’ll blog."
June 30, 2019
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"After establishing that the happiness of the Trinity was already complete in itself, Keller extends that prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God."
June 30, 2019
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"Prayer turns theology into experience.
Keller‘s capacity to take in a vast amount of material, sometimes with opposing emphases, and come out with solid, comprehensible, memorable epigrams like that is a gift of grace."
Keller‘s capacity to take in a vast amount of material, sometimes with opposing emphases, and come out with solid, comprehensible, memorable epigrams like that is a gift of grace."
June 30, 2019
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"Keller says Augustine surprises the modern reader by telling an inquirer about prayer that unless her prayers are anchored in a sense that she is desolate in this world, her prayers may go wrong. Sure of that, she can pray with unsophisticated confidence."
June 30, 2019
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35.0%
"On the role of the word of God in prayer: “if you don’t understand the text, you can’t really meditate on it.�"
June 30, 2019
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"The Lord’s prayer disciplines us to bring every corner of our lives to God."
June 30, 2019
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"Until we can acknowledge the disorder within, called sin, we are praying in unreality."
June 30, 2019
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"The Lord’s prayer is an untapped resource perhaps because it is so very familiar."
June 30, 2019
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"Unless we are certain that God is our father, we will NEVER be able to pray, thy will be done."
June 30, 2019
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"If regular confession doesn’t produce joy in your life, then you don’t understand salvation by grace."
June 30, 2019
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"When we comprehend God’s greatness, it gives us a new grasp on our own sinfulness."
July 1, 2019
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50.0%
"Nearly all wisdom consists of two parts, the knowledge of God, and of ourselves. � The opening lines of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion"
July 1, 2019
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"Keller says maturing believers know that persevering through tedium is part of making the most of prayer."
July 1, 2019
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"Martin Luther says all of life is repentance, and that is how we grow in grace."
July 1, 2019
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60.0%
"Keller conveys Martin Luther's resolution that before he could turn a biblical passage into praise, he first needed to understand it as instruction."
July 1, 2019
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"On approaching prayer and Scripture when we are repeatedly distracted: "Cries for help serve to concentrate the mind and soften the heart.""
July 3, 2019
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"If Augustine is right, what we love is basically what we are. We are what we adore."
July 3, 2019
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"Keller says one of the secondary dangers of plagiarism is that it puts the offender in a vulnerable position, because he is not capable of producing such ideas in the future. He analogizes this is why ingratitude is SO dangerous to the believer. It gets us in the habit of believing we sustain ourselves."
July 3, 2019
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"All prayer pursued far enough becomes praise. By commanding us to adore Hm, God is inviting us to enjoy Him."
July 3, 2019
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"Launching from David‘s recognition that if God kept a record of sins, no one could stand, Keller reminds us, “God‘s forgiveness is neither simple nor expected.�"
July 3, 2019
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"Real repentance should have two components, admitting and rejecting. True repentance begins with blame shifting ends"
July 3, 2019
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