LifeGuide Bible Studies: Prayer Series (6 vols.)

by Douglas Connelly; Carolyn Nystrom; Juanita Ryan; David Healey

and

1 more

Publisher:

IVP

, 2002–2015

Overview

Meeting with God is a spiritual discipline that Christians are called to develop. Instruction on prayer comes through direct command and by the example of faithful men and women in Scripture. This diverse collection of guides lead their readers through the New and Old Testament examples, specifically through the Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer. These guides are filled with highly applicable teaching and are not only an intellectual exercise. They are designed to facilitate growth in the lives of their readers.

Key Features

• Bible based teaching on prayer
• Uses examples from the Old and New Testaments
• Presents readers with instruction on listening to God

Product Details

• Title: LifeGuide Bible Studies: Prayer Series
• Series: LifeGuide Bible Studies
• Publisher: IVP
• Volumes: 6
• Pages: 399
• Resource Type: Bible Studies
• Topic: Prayer

Listening to God

• Author: Carolyn Nystrom
• Series: LifeGuide Bible Studies
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 64

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Does God hear us? Does God speak? How can we connect with God when all seems to be lost? What is our role in listening? Through exploring the lives of biblical characters and direct teaching on this subject, the ten studies in this LifeGuide Bible study assist readers in understanding how to seek and find an ever deeper dialogue with God.

Carolyn Nystrom (MA, Wheaton College) has written more than eighty books, Bible study guides, and children’s titles. She coauthored Praying with theologian J.I. Packer and Is the Reformation Over with scholar Mark Noll. She is also the author of the LifeGuide Bible Studies 1 & 2 Peter and Jude, Money and Work, Friendship, Listening to God and more.

In addition to actively serving in her church, she has been a foster parent, an elementary schoolteacher, the stated clerk of her EPC presbytery, and a book editor.

Prayer: An Adventure with God

• Author: David Healey
• Series: LifeGuide Bible Studies
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2002
• Pages: 80

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Christians pray for their own needs and for the needs of others. They pray in the face of conflict, and they pray for forgiveness. They pray to pour out their heart to God and to gain a glimpse of God’s heart for them.

As David Healey leads readers through the prayers of men and women in the Bible (Mary, Abraham, Moses, Daniel and more!), he shares new insights into how and why to pray. Participants will experience more fully the adventure that prayer can be.

Now available in IVP’s revised LifeGuide Bible Study format, Prayer features questions for starting group discussions and for personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section following each session.

David Healey, based in the United Kingdom, is Irish, and works as a photography tutor and writer. His background is in marketing and marketing communications, and he has also worked in student ministry in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and as head of a mission agency and patronage society of the Church of England.

Prayers of the New Testament

• Author: Lynne M. Baab
• Series: LifeGuide Bible Studies
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 64

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Is your prayer life stuck in a rut? With these Bible studies from Lynne M. Baab, you’ll find new words and new ways to pray through the prayers of Mary, Simeon and Anna, Peter, Paul, John and Jesus himself. Their words and patterns can serve as rich models for us in our own conversations with God, helping us get out of our ruts and onto fresh new paths of prayer.

Lynne M. Baab is the author of multiple books and Bible studies. A Presbyterian minister, she completed a PhD in communication at the University of Washington in 2007 and moved with her husband to Dunedin, New Zealand, where she is a lecturer in pastoral theology at the University of Otago. Lynne is the author of eight books, including A Renewed Spirituality, Sabbath Keeping, Fasting, Sabbath, Personality Type in Congregations, Embracing Midlife, Beating Burnout in Congregations, Reaching Out in a Networked World: Expressing Your Congregation’s Heart and Soul, and Friending. She is also the author of three LifeGuide Bible Studies.

Prayers of the Old Testament

• Author: Lynne M. Baab
• Series: LifeGuide Bible Studies
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 64

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Can we be honest with God when we pray? If we look at the Old Testament, the answer is surely yes. From the exuberant praise of Moses and Miriam to the desperate cries of Jeremiah, the First Testament is rich with heartfelt prayers to God. These eight studies from Lynne M. Baab, based on prayers from seven Old Testament books, invite you to meet our mighty, loving God in fresh ways, bringing all of who you are to him.

Lynne M. Baab is the author of multiple books and Bible studies. A Presbyterian minister, she completed a PhD in communication at the University of Washington in 2007 and moved with her husband to Dunedin, New Zealand, where she is a lecturer in pastoral theology at the University of Otago. Lynne is the author of eight books, including A Renewed Spirituality, Sabbath Keeping, Fasting, Sabbath, Personality Type in Congregations, Embracing Midlife, Beating Burnout in Congregations, Reaching Out in a Networked World: Expressing Your Congregation’s Heart and Soul, and Friending. She is also the author of three LifeGuide Bible Studies.

Praying the Psalms

• Author: Juanita Ryan
• Series: LifeGuide Bible Studies
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 64

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Joy. Anger. Distress. Hope. Trust. All of these emotions are expressed in the Psalms. Juanita Ryan offers these studies to help you learn how to openly express the full range of your emotions to God.

This revised LifeGuide Bible Study, originally titled Psalms II, features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader's notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.

Juanita Ryan is a clinical nurse specialist with an MSN in psychiatric mental health nursing. She has taught mental health nursing at Bethel University, Rio Hondo Community College and Biola University. She is currently a therapist in private practice at Brea Family Counseling Center in Brea, California. She is the coauthor of The Twelve Steps: A Spiritual Kindergarten and the author or coauthor of over 30 InterVarsity Press Bible studies.

The Lord’s Prayer

• Author: Douglas Connelly
• Series: LifeGuide Bible Studies
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 63

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When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, he gave them what is now known as the Lord’s Prayer. Is Lord’s Prayer a formal prayer that you repeat only during Sunday morning worship? Has it become so familiar that you hardly think about its meaning? If so, you are missing out on a rich resource for your spiritual life.

In this study guide Douglas Connelly unpacks the Lord’s Prayer section by section with additional texts that help you dig deeper into Jesus’ teaching about how to pray.

Douglas Connelly (MDiv and MTh, Grace Theological Seminary) is senior pastor at Davison Missionary Church near Flint, Michigan, after serving 12 years as senior pastor at Parkside Community Church in Sterling Heights, Michigan. A writer and speaker, he has written 17 LifeGuide Bible Studies as well as several books, including The Bible for Blockheads and Angels Around Us.