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First tweet of mine by Tim Keller.

Read some of this with a group of guys from church. Finished most of it on my own, taking a break during the Fall semester to finish my prospectus and then finishing it after my defense.

Introduction
1: update language
1-2: communion-seeking vs. kingdom seeking

Ch. 1: The Necessity of Prayer
9: crises
10: O'Connor's prayer journal
11: Augustine and ordering loves/desires
16: intelligent mysticism
17: 4 practical changes

Ch. 2: The Greatness of Prayer
20: heart > mind
21: summum bonum—love of God
24: spiritual emptiness
28-32: Herbert's "Prayer (1)"

Ch. 3: What Is Prayer?
37: 17c, Book of Common Prayer; Frazer—Darwin
38-39: inward turn
281: Kalevala and shamanism
282: Jung and "collective unconscious"
47: 17c poets (C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength)
45/48: definition of prayer
289: C.S. Lewis had read Buber

Ch. 4: Conversing with God
51-52: speech-act theory
54: Bible as God's Word
57: rational prayer is okay; apophatic prayer
59-60: Psalms show us ways to pray (ways that our own temperaments might not naturally experience)
60-61: Lamott (unknown God; no confession)
62: creating our own God
63: God speaks through Scripture

Ch. 5: Encountering God
68: God created to share joy, not get it (Edwards and Augustine)
75: Aristotle and friendship
299: Barr on Abba/Daddy controversy

Ch. 6: Letters on Prayer
84-88: Augustine on prayer (4 points)
89-96: Luther on prayer
88: suffering as a shield
89: Luther's barber

Ch. 7: Rulers for Prayer
98: Wind in the Willows
100: Spufford's Unapologetic

Ch. 8: The Prayer of Prayers
109: Lord's Prayer is too familiar
110: referring to God as Father is praying in Jesus' name (recognizing benefits as sons/daughters)
110-11: spread of God's holiness
112: want to obey joyfully
113: Herbert
114: incurvatus in se; social dimension—justice issues
119: C.S. Lewis and community

Ch. 9: The Touchstones of Prayer
121: 12 touchstones
121-22: worst sin is prayerlessness
128: helplessness; Rev. 3:20 is for believers
128-29: God prompts us to pray
135: Calvin's introduction to his Institutes—knowing God and ourselves

Ch. 10: As Conversation: Meditating on His Word
146: Ps. 1 is a meditation on meditation
[149: false contrast between information and God's voice]
152-62: Owen's 3 points: fixing the mind, inclining the heart, and enjoying or crying out
161: when you can't concentrate, make your appeals brief and intense
162: implications of the Decalogue

Ch. 11: As Encounter: Seeking His Face
167: letter in Pascal's coat
175-76: seek God's face = seek communion
176-78: if the beatific vision doesn't capture our imaginations, something else will
178: anxiety
179-83: keeping truth and experience together (von Balthasar vs. Owen)
184: Trueman's appreciation of and warning against mysticism
185: Augustine on God and desire (see p. 311n289)

Ch. 12: Awe: Praising His Glory
189-90: praise corrects other forms of prayer
190-92: C.S. Lewis on praise—it completes the enjoyment
193-94: Smith's Desiring the Kingdom and Augustine's ordered loves
195: Ps. 135 and Ps. 136 (praise and thanksgiving)
196: importance of gratitude; plagiarism
197-99: Lewis, Cranmer, and Henry
202-03: Ps. 146-150 (praise)
204: to glorify God is to enjoy Him

Ch. 13: Intimacy: Finding His Grace
207: freeness and costliness of forgiveness
208: Luther and continuous repentance (first of his 95 Theses)
209: God can't punish sinners twice (because of His justice) [implies predestination]
2014: chesedh
218: Whitefield and 4 features of a vital Christian life
221: Lady Macbeth and guilt

Ch. 14: Struggle: Asking for Help
222: primal prayer is for help
223: don't be too timid; prayer as a weapon
224-25: pray and work
225: monks attacked first (because they were the most powerful, because of prayer)
227: Augustine and disordered love
229-30: long prayer lists
235: joy as legalism; Christian Smith's moralistic, therapeutic, deism; Platonic dualism (mind/body)

Ch. 15: Practice: Daily Prayer
This chapter is very practical and specific.
240: Alan Jacobs
241: "Kalandar"
244: Quiet Time too rationalistic
245: set/written prayers?
247: The Valley of Vision
249: serious Bible study is essential for growth
251: Edwards: see/taste
255-58: praying the psalms
255: Athanasius and "fitting words"
256: 3 ways to pray the psalms
258-60: boat metaphor (sailing, rowing, drifting, sinking)
260: rowing in the dark; fellowship as feasting
261: wedding in Cana—water jars for purification
262: Cowper's "unknown tomorrow"; Herbert and Moody
320-21: how to think about the imprecatory psalms

Appendix: Some Other Patterns for Daily Prayer

267: Keller's agent is David McCormick

268-74: annotated bibliography