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Renowned pastor and New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller explores the power of prayer.

Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In
Prayer, renowned pastor Timothy Keller delves into the many facets of this everyday act.

With his trademark insights and energy, Keller offers biblical guidance as well as specific prayers for certain situations, such as dealing with grief, loss, love, and forgiveness. He discusses ways to make prayers more personal and powerful, and how to establish a practice of prayer that works for each reader.

Dr. Keller’s previous books have sold more than one million copies. His Redeemer Presbyterian Church is not only a major presence in his home base of New York, it has also helped to launch more than two hundred fifty other churches in forty-eight cities around the world. His teachings have already helped millions, the majority of whom pray regularly. And with
Prayer, he’ll show them how to find a deeper connection with God.



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". . . Keller provides a contextually rich guide and companion to prayer."
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". . . If you follow Keller into the arsenal, you will be powerfully equipped to overcome the world/flesh/Devil and see your prayers for kingdom advance answered by almighty God. And if you follow Keller to the banqueting table, you will increasingly feast on new and old treasures of awe and intimacy with your heavenly Father."
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"Keller’s work belongs on the bookshelf of every serious Bible student. It is not a quick read, but, instead should be savored like fine wine, one sip at a time to glean the full impact of his life-changing message."
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"Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him." 
– Billy Graham

“Unlike most suburban megachurches, much of Redeemer is remarkably traditional. What is not traditional is Dr. Keller’s skill in speaking the language of his urbane audience . . . Observing Dr. Keller’s professorial pose on stage, it is easy to understand his appeal.” 
The New York Times

“Fifty years from now, if evangelical Christians are widely known for their love of cities, their commitment to mercy and justice, and their love of their neighbors, Tim Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians.”
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Christianity Today Magazine

“With intellectual, brimstone-free sermons that manage to cite Woody Allen alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Keller draws some 5,000 young followers every Sunday. Church leaders see him as a model of how to evangelize urban centers across the country, and Keller has helped ‘plant’ 50 gospel-based Christian churches around New York plus another 50 from San Francisco to London.” 
New York Magazine

“Theologically rich and philosophically informed, yet accessible and filled with practical wisdom.”
Comment Magazine on Every Good Endeavor

“This book is for us all and through its reading it can change and reshape your entire outlook on your life.”
– Sarah Macintosh on
Every Good Endeavor

“It’s a great resource to equip you to speak with your secular friends; to show them why the Christian understanding of marriage is not only a tremendous blessing, it’s the only one that works.”
– ChristianPost.com on
The Meaning of Marriage

The Meaning of Marriage is incredibly rich with wisdom and insight that will leave the reader, whether single or married, feeling uplifted. While the book is filled with expertly selected biblical verses, nonreligious readers willing to ‘try on’ these observations may find answers not only to the meaning of marriage but to that even bigger question—the meaning of life itself.”
The Washington Times on The Meaning of Marriage

“This is the book I give to all my friends who are serious spiritual seekers or skeptics.”
– Rick Warren, author of
The Purpose Driven Life, on The Reason for God

“Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God. Written for skeptics and the believers who love them, the book draws on the author's encounters as founding pastor of New York's booming Redeemer Presbyterian Church…[
The Reason for God] should serve both as testimony to the author's encyclopedic learning and as a compelling overview of the current debate on faith for those who doubt and for those who want to reevaluate what they believe, and why.” 
Publishers Weekly on The Reason for God

World has briefly reviewed about 200 books over the past year. Many stand out, but one in particular is likely to change many lives and ways of thinking. World’s Book of the Year is Tim Keller’s The Reason for God. ”
– Marvin Olasky on
The Reason for God

About the Author

TIMOTHY KELLER was born and raised in Pennsylvania and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. He was first a pastor in Hopewell, Virginia. In 1989 he started Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City with his wife, Kathy, and their three sons. Today, Redeemer has more than five thousand regular Sunday attendees and has helped to start more than two hundred and fifty new churches around the world. Also the author of The Songs of Jesus, Preaching, Encounters with Jesus, Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering, Every Good Endeavor, The Meaning of Marriage, Generous Justice, Counterfeit Gods, The Prodigal God, Jesus the King, and The Reason for God, Timothy Keller lives in New York City with his family.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (January 26, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Timothy Keller is senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Manhattan. He is renowned for his clear, reasoned approach to Christian apologetics and his book THE REASON FOR GOD: BELIEF IN AN AGE OF SKEPTICISM was named Book of the Year for 2008 by World Magazine.

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Customers find the book readable and well-presented. They appreciate the author's insights and clear application of the topic. The book helps them understand how to praise God and talk to God. It is described as a wonderful mix of biblical teaching, personal reflection, historical commentary. Readers appreciate the depth and structure of the book.

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Customers find the book helpful for prayer. They appreciate the author's knowledge and understanding of praise, communication with God. The book offers a wonderful mix of biblical teaching, personal reflection, historical commentary, and prophetic rootedness in knowledge of God. It addresses Christian culture's tendencies toward mysticism and provides a compelling thesis and framework for believers to adopt.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2015
    I confess. I struggle with daily, personal prayer. When I do prayer, I fight to concentrate and when I do concentrate I often feel like my prayers are rote. It was encouraging to hear Tim Keller share his own struggle with prayer and the way he now has experienced God through a daily prayer life. “The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives” (26). So prayer for Keller and many before him in the Reformed tradition is a reflection of who God is (see 45).

    Prayer begins by examining two major streams of prayer in the broad Christian tradition—mystical and prophetic. I’ve heard murmurs for years about Keller and mysticism, but regularly in Prayer Keller is critical of mysticism (see 43, 59, and 150). I also wanted to point out that when discussing meditation Keller centers the practice on Jesus. “Meditate on Jesus, who is the ultimate meditation of God” (164 see also 177)—a clear blow to the kind of mindless meditation in some mysticism. He argues prophetic prayer is closer to what we see in Scripture, but also doesn’t reject mystical experiences (not the same as mysticism). Keller notes, “[P]rayer is ultimately a verbal response of faith to a transcendent God’s Word and his grace, not an inward descent to discover we are one with all things and God. . . . [However,] we need to recognize that prayer also can lead regularly to personal encounter with God, which can be indeed a wondrous, mysterious, awe-filled experience” (43 see also 66 and 179-85). This balance of biblical, prophetic rootedness in knowledge of God and a certain expectation of “a wondrous, mysterious, awe-filled experience” with God fills the pages of Prayer.

    After laying this foundation, Keller explores what prayer should look like—the how of prayer. In this regard especially, Keller paints skillfully on canvas of the Reformed tradition. Primarily the how is rooted in Scripture (64) and discovered through the Psalms, the Reformers broadly as expositors of Scripture, and the prayer life of Jesus. So Prayer can described most aptly as an experiential theology of prayer through the Reformed tradition.

    This historical rootedness is something sorely missing in many theologies today. It was refreshing to survey how those before us prayed—St. Augustine, John Calvin, Martin Luther, and John Owen—and not just their teaching, but their practice. For instance, Keller shows John Calvin’s rules for prayer:

    “Calvin’s first rule for prayer is the principle of reverence or the ‘fear of God’” (97).
    “Calvin’s second rule for prayer is ‘the sense of need that excludes all unreality’” (99).
    “His third rule is that we should have a submissive trust of God” (101).
    “[The fourth rule is praying] with confidence and hope” (101).
    “The fifth rule is actually a major qualification of the very word rule. He says: ‘What I have set forth on the four rules of right praying is not so rigorously required that God will reject those prayers in which he finds neither perfect faith nor repentance, together with a warmth of zeal and petition rightly conceived’” (103).

    Chapter eight “The Prayer of Prayers” ministered to me most personally. Keller here exposits the Lord’s prayer and teases out the full width and breadth of what Jesus sought to teach in it. Two observation were most helpful. First, as we pray “Our Father” we are not praying to a distant deity, but to a committed and loving Father who we have a relational communion with because of Jesus Christ. Also, he observes that praying for our daily bread also reminds us that we must not take more than our daily bread so that others might also receive their daily bread. “Therefore, to pray ‘give us—all the people of our land—daily bread’ is to pray against ‘wanton exploitation’ in business, trade, and labor, which ‘crushes the poor and deprives them of their daily bread” (114).

    Prayer ends with the habitus—the daily doing of prayer. He gives four: (1) awe, (2) intimacy, (3) struggle, and (4) practice. In awe, Keller reminds us that we must praise God for who he is, just believing he is great is not enough. We are what we love. In intimacy, Keller leans hard on the forgiveness of sin we have in Christ. He emphasizes its freeness, while also reminding us to kill sin via the instruction of John Owen who encourages Christians to not kill sin with the law, but “‘by the spirit of the gospel’” (217). In struggle, Keller reminds us that many of our prayers our answered by changing our own hearts or giving us the ultimate good (the prayer we would have offered had we known everything God knows). He ends again with Jesus. “We know that God will answer us when we call ‘my God’ because God did not answer Jesus when he made the same petition on the cross” (239). Good news indeed. In practice, Keller connects daily prayer to the life of the church, offers helpful tips, and encourages us that communion with God is within our grasp.

    Keller’s Prayer was a one of my favorite books of the year. Its depth and breadth will be invaluable for those struggling to pray for two reasons. First, Keller speaks experientially and theologically—a balance through out. Second, he also shows that prayer grows out of Scripture and also points to the fathers of our faith as our teachers and guides. A rare combination for any book dealing with such a practical and important topic.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2014
    Hold on! Is it a book about prayer? Another book about prayer? Is there any possible way we can benefit from yet another book on the subject of prayer? Tim Keller’s Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God answers with a decisive yes.

    Now here’s the interesting thing. There is not much new in this new book. As Keller says, the best books on prayer have already been written. So instead of pursuing novelty (see The Prayer of Jabez or The Circle Maker or a thousand other books) Keller looks to the past, to the deep wells of Christian history, and draws heavily from Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Owen, and Edwards (and, in more recent history, Edmund Clowney). He understands that any new insights on prayer tend to go farther from rather than closer to biblical truth. Instead of looking for new secrets to discover or keys to unlock, Keller looks for fresh ways of saying those old things. Again, there is nothing profoundly new in this new book, but that is its strength, not its weakness.

    Keller begins his book in an interesting place—the tension between two kinds of prayer. Christians tend to describe prayer in one of two ways: communion-centered or kingdom-centered. Communion-centered prayer is “a means to experience God’s love and to know oneness with him. [Such authors] promise a life of peace and of continual resting in God. [They] often give radiant testimonies of feeling regularly surrounded by the divine presence.” Kingdom-centered prayer “sees the essence of prayer not as inward resting but as calling on God to bring in his kingdom. Prayer is viewed as a wrestling match, often—or perhaps ordinarily—without a clear sense of God’s immediate presence.” He opts to discard the either-or view and will not drive a wedge between the two. Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

    This is not to say he advocates the kind of prayer you might find among the Roman Catholic mystics whose books remain so popular today. In fact, he pushes firmly against mysticism, against meditation as being an emptying of the mind rather than a filling of it, or against rapturous but mindless prayers. But still he leaves plenty of room for true communion with God, and for the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit who may bring Scripture to mind and cause us to understand it better in those times we are prayerfully meditative. Even as he teaches these things, he leans on the Reformers and Puritans.

    As I began to read, I had thought that Keller’s purpose in the book might be to try to resolve the mysteries of prayer. Over time, though, I came to see that this is not the case. There is much about prayer we cannot understand and may never understand on this side of eternity (and perhaps even after). Keller peers into these mysteries, but he does not attempt to resolve them. He understands that prayer will always be difficult and never over-promises, never lays out a plan that, if followed, will supposedly bring guaranteed or overwhelming results. We can grow in our understanding of prayer and our skill at prayer, but we will never solve it, and will never pray perfectly.

    One particularly interesting aspect of the book is Keller’s definition of prayer. Few books on prayer pause to actually define prayer, but Keller gives it his best shot. Prayer, he says, is a personal, communicative response to the knowledge of God. This accounts for the universality of prayer—all religions, and very nearly all human beings, pray. They pray because they have some knowledge of God through his creation. But as God awakens the hardened hearts of his people, Christians are now able to pray on the basis of much greater and much more specific knowledge. Thus, for the Christian, “praying is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.”

    Early in his book Keller critiques most books on prayer as being “primarily theological or devotional or practical, but seldom do they combine the theological, experiential, and methodological all under one cover.” This is what he has attempted to do, and it is exactly what he has done, as displayed in the book’s five parts: Desiring Prayer, Understanding Prayer, Learning Prayer, Deepening Prayer, Doing Prayer. He has written a winsome, well-rounded book that leads through theory and into practice. It is one of the strongest books on prayer I have ever read and it receives my highest recommendation.
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  • collin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Book full of insights that will change the way you pray
    Reviewed in Canada on January 13, 2021
    I love the quote “praying is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with Him.” Tim Keller brings balance to a ritualistic or overly meditative approach we may have towards prayer, drawing from past figures such as Augustine, Luther, and Calvin to bring us back to the essence of prayer. He looks for fresh ways of taking wisdom from the past and offers some practical guidelines along the way. This book is a must-have for those who wish to encounter God in their daily devotionals.
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  • Joseph
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Prayer-Transforming Book.
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on December 27, 2016
    Here is one of the life transforming lessons on prayer I learned from this book.

    ** WHAT IS THE COST OF PRAYER?
    The only time in all the gospels that Jesus Christ prays to God and doesn’t call him Father is on the cross, when he says, “My God, my God, why have you forgotten me? Why have you forsaken me?” Jesus lost his relationship with the Father so that we could have a relationship with God as father. That is the "cost of prayer."

    On that old rugged cross, Jesus was forgotten so that we could be remembered forever—from everlasting to everlasting. That is the "cost of prayer." Jesus Christ bore all the eternal punishment that our sins deserve. The father sent the son to save us from our sins so that we could become God's adopted sons and daughters. That is the "cost of prayer."

    Jesus paid the price so God could be our father. His death on the cross reconciled us to God and made him our father. When we are born again through faith in Christ, we receive the right to be his children and call him father. That is the "cost of prayer."

    To be a child of God means access. For through Christ we have access to the Father by one Spirit. Access means we can now run to the father without fear. It means we have the most intimate and unbreakable relationship possible with the God of the universe. It means the Almighty God is attentively listening to you, watching over you and "mindful of you".

    So why do we pray? Prayer is the way to sense and appropriate this access and fatherly love of God, and to experience the calm and strength in one's life that results from such assurance of being cared for. Because we know Jesus, because we are "in Christ", God the Father focuses his almighty love and attention on us when we pray. CHRIST is the "cost of prayer."

    I would love to hear from you my beloved brethren in the comments below. Was there anything said or shared in this video that really inspired you? or Is there any contribution you would like add to the prayer insights shared in this video? Please leave them in the comment section below so other people can be inspired as well. For more biblical guidance on how to pray more effectual fervent prayers check out Pastor Keller's book.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars
    A Prayer-Transforming Book.

    Reviewed in the Netherlands on December 27, 2016
    Here is one of the life transforming lessons on prayer I learned from this book.

    ** WHAT IS THE COST OF PRAYER?
    The only time in all the gospels that Jesus Christ prays to God and doesn’t call him Father is on the cross, when he says, “My God, my God, why have you forgotten me? Why have you forsaken me?” Jesus lost his relationship with the Father so that we could have a relationship with God as father. That is the "cost of prayer."

    On that old rugged cross, Jesus was forgotten so that we could be remembered forever—from everlasting to everlasting. That is the "cost of prayer." Jesus Christ bore all the eternal punishment that our sins deserve. The father sent the son to save us from our sins so that we could become God's adopted sons and daughters. That is the "cost of prayer."

    Jesus paid the price so God could be our father. His death on the cross reconciled us to God and made him our father. When we are born again through faith in Christ, we receive the right to be his children and call him father. That is the "cost of prayer."

    To be a child of God means access. For through Christ we have access to the Father by one Spirit. Access means we can now run to the father without fear. It means we have the most intimate and unbreakable relationship possible with the God of the universe. It means the Almighty God is attentively listening to you, watching over you and "mindful of you".

    So why do we pray? Prayer is the way to sense and appropriate this access and fatherly love of God, and to experience the calm and strength in one's life that results from such assurance of being cared for. Because we know Jesus, because we are "in Christ", God the Father focuses his almighty love and attention on us when we pray. CHRIST is the "cost of prayer."

    I would love to hear from you my beloved brethren in the comments below. Was there anything said or shared in this video that really inspired you? or Is there any contribution you would like add to the prayer insights shared in this video? Please leave them in the comment section below so other people can be inspired as well. For more biblical guidance on how to pray more effectual fervent prayers check out Pastor Keller's book.
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  • Amy
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is the most important book
    Reviewed in France on January 28, 2017
    I will never stop recommending this book to everyone I talk to. I find Keller's writing (especially in this book) to be philosophical, logical, intelligent and compelling. It's one of those books that transform, that change the colour of your mind, and is so useful for daily contemplation that I find myself always recalling it, or rereading it.
    Do yourself a favour. This is the book for you.
  • Jeevan Fenn Varughese
    2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't match up to TK standard
    Reviewed in India on April 3, 2016
    This is more like a document or more like research paper. I couldn't complete it. Disappointed as I have very high regard for Timothy Keller