Added Monday 19th January 2009
This year's Lent Course is now available on the Jesus4u website. Entitled "Prayers for Lovers", it was written in response to observations such as: "I don't know how to pray", "When it comes to praying, I feel as if I am not doing my duty," and "When it comes to private prayer, I feel completely bewildered; I can never get rid of distractions."
The course is written from the standpoint of a fellow struggler, and draws on the following three ideas:
- Prayer is about relationship with God;
- With perseverance, love grows in depth even if it varies in intensity;
- Prayer resembles sex, a very specific aspect of love, because we expect more of it than it usually delivers but at its best it is life transforming; and we think that other people are invariably 'better' at it than we are.
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