Prayer and Personal Religion

The purpose of this volumme says John Coburn is to help you pray and grow in your personal religious life. It is a book about your inner life and your relationship with God. Although this relationship is unique for each person, there is a general way in which God deals with us and through which we respond. This book is concerned with this general pattern.

Chapters include:

Prayer is Response to God
Be Yourself and Begin with Where You Are
Clearing the Ground: When, Where, and How to Pray
The Foundation Stones of Prayer: Adoration, Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession, Petition
The House that Prayer Builds: Prayers that You Think, that You Feel, that You Will
Progress in Prayer: Practicing the Presence of God; Reading, Prayer Groups, Retreats; a Rule of Life; On Beginning Again
Mature Personal Religion: Action and Worship
On Suffering and Joy