If you’ve never read a book on prayer, you’ve got the right one. And if you’ve read lots of books on prayer, you’ve still got the right one. Prayer Works is a unique blend of great storytelling, laugh-out-loud humor, and rock-solid instruction. Matthew Leonard has the rare gift of making deep topics easy to understand and digest.
Practical and inspirational, this book will set your heart on fire and teach you how to engage in a life of divine intimacy you never thought possible. Put simply, Prayer Works will radically transform your life.
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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Why Pray?
Chapter 2: What Is Prayer?
Chapter 3: Prayer & the Purgative Way (i.e. 3 Stages of the Spiritual Life)
Chapter 4: Illumination & Union (i.e. 3 Stages of the Spiritual Life)
Chapter 5: How Does Prayer Work?
Chapter 6: Talking to God
Chapter 7: Meditation
Chapter 8: Contemplation
Chapter 9: The Sound of Silence
Chapter 10: How to Progress
Chapter 11: To Whom Do We Pray?
Chapter 12: Practically Speaking
Chapter 13: Abandonment
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Popular Author & Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at The Augustine Institute