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Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

By: Tyler Staton, Tim Mackie - foreword
Narrated by: Tyler Staton, Tim Mackie
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An invitation to an ordinary yet radical way of life, using historic Christian practices as both inspiring vision and practical instruction for how to encounter the wondrous, mysterious, living God through prayer.

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious promises, and yet, most people—even most Bible-believing Christians—find prayer to be boring, obligatory, disappointing, confusing, or, most often, all of the above.

If you've ever felt this way, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is your invitation to trade your conceptions and misconceptions about prayer for prayer in its purest form: a vital, sustaining, powerful connection with God that is more real and alive than you could have ever imagined. Here, Tyler Staton—author, pastor, and national director of the 24/7 Prayer movement—addresses common roadblocks to prayer and gives you the confidence to come to God just as you are.

Through biblical teaching, powerful storytelling, and insights on historic Christian practices, Staton helps you . . .

  • Express your doubts and disappointments about prayer
  • Discover and practice multiple postures of prayer, including silence, persistence, confession, and more
  • Understand and embrace the wonder and mystery of prayer in everyday life
  • Realize that prayer is a powerful invitation to partner with God in the redemption of a fallen world
  • And, ultimately, open or reopen the line of communication with your Creator and experience afresh his divine power on earth
©2022 Tyler Staton (P)2022 Zondervan

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Vital enrichment to go higher up and deeper in.

This book is for those who long to make prayer a reality transcending duty and practice. This book is for those who realize prayer is experience, devotion, fidelity and relational…but need a loving nudge.

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Timely

Challenging and encouraging - a much needed book, especially for the American church. It does a great job of marrying theological with philosophical with practical.

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Hearts On Fire

I need these kinds of wake up calls to rekindle a passion that routinely grows cold. This is where discipline and habit become the propulsion for rebellious faithfulness.

Thank you Tyler for an impassioned, creatively crafted primer on the ultimate and most essential key to communion with God. I highly recommend to anyone and everyone no later how experienced you are in conversation with Jesus.

After reading this book, I feel like the disciples who reflected back on precious time with a stranger who turned out to be Jesus… “didn’t our hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?!”

Or if you prefer, my favorite Rocky (IV) track to work out to… “hearts on fire, strong desire, rages deep within.”

So good!

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Amazing read

This book changed and inspired my faith in so many ways. There are practical tips and relatable stories. I cannot recommend it enough!

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Love It

Absolutely worth a listen regardless of where you are spiritually. Explore the theory and practice of prayer in deep and profound ways.

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Incredibly helpful and inspiring book on prayer!

I am so glad I found this book. I found it so inspiring, and just what I needed to move into a deeper prayer life. His stories were also so helpful. Excellent book!

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Enlightening

Tyler Staton is one of my new favorite authors. I enjoyed his perspective on Biblical prayer. He used some incredible stories from his own life and expounded upon famous examples of prayer in the Bible- both old and New Testament, as well as praying Christians over the last 2000 years. Loved this book and recommended it to my church staff already!

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It is AWESOME

It’s revealing…

I enjoyed it very much, I loved it.
I can hear it again and again.

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Highly recommend this book!

This Book on prayer is not only practical, but inspirational. The author digs into the true character of God—our all powerful, loving Father, etc. And he walks through the passage of Jesus teaching his disciples to pray. Most admirable is the honesty of this book, it hides from nothing. The author vulnerably shares his own prayer journey which has inspired me to spend more time quiet before God…to just enjoy time with him—time in relationship w him.

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Amazement of prayer

Sincerity, sincerity, sincerity, truth, sincerity, the wonder of Christ, the power of prayer, sincerity, the power of prayer, the power of prayer 

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