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How to Pray

Are you new to prayer, or looking for guidance? 

The books below provide guides on a wide variety of prayer, from contemplative prayer to prayer experiments. Try something new today!

 

Looking to pray with the Scriptures? Take a look at our Lectio Divina feature.

Looking for prayer books? Go to our Prayer Books feature.

Want to learn more about the Jesus Prayer? Find books here.

How to Pray
Into the Silent Land

Into the Silent Land

The Practice of Contemplation

Martin Laird
Provides an introduction to the Christian contemplative tradition for people inside or on the margins of the churches who feel drawn to the world of silent prayer.

Paperback

£11.99

Sunlit Absence

Sunlit Absence

Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation

Martin Laird (Associate Professor of Theology, Villanova University), Martin Laird
In his sequel to the best-selling Into the Silent Land, Laird guides the reader more deeply into the sanctuary of Christian meditation. He focuses here on negotiating key moments of difficulty on the contemplative path, showing how the struggles we...

Hardback

£12.99

When I Pray, What Does God Do?

When I Pray, What Does God Do?

David Wilkinson, FRAS (Author)
What happens when we pray? Does God always answer? Why does it sometimes feel like he doesn't? Scientific developments and daily encounters with the pain of unanswered prayer can leave us wondering what to make of the whole topic. Scientist and...

Paperback / softback

£8.99

Teenage Prayer Experiment Notebook

Teenage Prayer Experiment Notebook

Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Noah Threlfall-Holmes
An interactive prayer journal for teenagers. Each chapter of the book introduces a prayer practice, e.g using labyrinths, Lego Bible modelling, prayer beads, prayer walking. It also includes comments by teenagers who have tried it out and space for...

Paperback

£10.99

Way of Serenity

Way of Serenity

Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer

Jonathan Morris

Paperback / softback

£16.99

How to Pray

How to Pray

A Practical Handbook

John Pritchard
Whether you are just starting out in your prayer life or want to deepen and refresh it, this practical handbook (now reissued with a new cover) will be a constant source of ideas and inspiration.

Paperback / softback

£9.99

Word by Word

Word by Word

A Daily Spiritual Practice

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Paperback / softback

£13.99

Lord and His Prayer

Lord and His Prayer

Tom Wright
By looking in detail at the Lord's Prayer and its background, Tom Wright offers a really fresh and helpful way of looking at Jesus. Phrase by phrase, he demonstrates how understanding the prayer in its original setting can be the starting point...

Paperback / softback

£9.99

Doors into Prayer

Doors into Prayer

An Invitation

Emilie Griffin
Whether you are a beginner or fully engaged in a life of prayer this little book will offer profound insight and encouragement.

Paperback / softback

£7.95

Little Book of Prayer Experiments

Little Book of Prayer Experiments

The Revd Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
Returning with a new book of prayer experiments, for adults this time, Miranda Threlfall Holmes lay out lots of new ways to engage in prayer and connect with God. With a foreword by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, this interactive and...

Paperback / softback

£10.99

Prayer That Changes Everything

Prayer That Changes Everything

Discovering the Power of St. Ignatius Loyola's Examen

Jim Manney

Paperback

£7.99

God on Mute

God on Mute

Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer

Pete Greig

Paperback

£8.99

When you Can't Pray

When you Can't Pray

Finbarr Lynch
This is a sequel to When You Pray, and it is about what happens when the Lord comes closer and gives more of himself in personal prayer. This is when we can reach the disaming point when prayer no longer seems to work for us. The author tells us...

Paperback

£9.99

Prayer

Prayer

What the Bible Tells Us About Prayers

William Barclay, John Bell
So fundamental to our faith and our relationship with God, prayer can be both public and private, communal and individual. Many learn to pray by listening to others, but how often do we turn to the Bible to understand what it is that we do when we...

Paperback

£8.99

ePUB

£7.99

Prayers

A variety of our best books of prayers.

Books about Prayer

Including How to Pray, Lectio Divina, Prayer Books.  

Praying the Jesus Prayer

Books focussing on the Jesus Prayer. 

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