How Prayer Works
How Prayer Works
Podcast Description
How Prayer Works is ultimately a mystery – yet God invites us to participate in this practice! Typically, God works in identifiable patterns. This podcast seeks to identify those patterns and answer in part the question: “How Does Prayer Work” There are many implications of these patterns for the proclamation of the gospel, the birth and strengthening of the church, and the transformation of civil society. Join Dan and his guests as we explore together the treasures of the kingdom revealed through prayer.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes surrounding prayer, its historical and contemporary definitions, intercession, and the transformative power of prayer in different contexts. For example, episodes delve into John Calvin's views on prayer, the implications of intercessory prayer, and the metaphor of discovering riches through acts of prayer, while also challenging complacent attitudes toward fate.
How Prayer Works is ultimately a mystery – yet God invites us to participate in this practice! Typically, God works in identifiable patterns. This podcast seeks to identify those patterns and answer in part the question: “How Does Prayer Work” There are many implications of these patterns for the proclamation of the gospel, the birth and strengthening of the church, and the transformation of civil society. Join Dan and his guests as we explore together the treasures of the kingdom revealed through prayer.
The third episode of the ”How Prayer Works” podcast will delve into the
questions: what is prayer and look at what both ancient and more modern folks
define it as? Additionally, we ask the question: Why bother with prayer anyway?
Why bother with intercession? Shouldn’t we let go and just accept our fate? We
will look at of all people, John Calvin’s thoughts on prayer. We finish off on
looking at four aspects of intercessory prayer: breaking it down to help us to wrap
our heads around it.
- Why bother with intercession – challenging common attitudes of ‘que sera, sera, whatever will be will be with, of all people, John Calvin’s thoughts on
that. - What are the four aspects of intercession?
- The challenge of how are we doing in our own prayer lives?
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