(RE)Understanding Prayer: A Fresh Approach to Conversation With God

What if, after having logged countless hours within the walls of the Church, you woke up one day feeling completely brain-dead about prayer? What’s the purpose? How does it work? Why even do it? A few years ago, Kyle Lake—a pastor—found himself in this very predicament. Tired of the clichés. Annoyed with the vacant banter. And suspecting that a simple word like prayer failed to express the fullness of our interaction with God.

So he set out to "reunderstand" prayer. Here, Lake deconstructs the wrong ideas of prayer that handicap our conversations with God, including Prayer as Drama, Prayer as Social Dance, and the All-Too Hip and Relevant Prayer (just to name a few). He seeks answers to a few of faith’s most pressing questions:

* How do you hear God?

* How do you know God’s voice from your own?

* How do you deal with seemingly unanswered prayers? (re)Understanding Prayer is the first step on a journey toward a more authentic, personal, and powerful prayer life. God’s ready. Are you?

Kyle Lake is the author of Understanding God’s Will: How to Hack the Equation Without Formulas (Relevant Books) and the pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, the home church of the David Crowder Band. He and his wife, Jen, have a daughter and twin sons.