Art of Praying: The Principles and Methods of Christian Prayer

Here’s help for those who find prayer routine and boring. Your problem may not be so much failure of will (you do try to pray well) but lack of knowledge about mature prayer — and the good news is that it’s easily overcome.

This book contains prayer basics for folks who already pray! It’s not that praying is complicated, but only that most of us have been doing it for so long that we pray automatically without really thinking about it. Where did you learn to pray? At your mother’s knee? From...