Everyday Prayer with the Puritans

by Donald K. McKim

Publisher:

P&R

, 2021

Overview

Through short meditative readings and reflection questions, Donald McKim explores Puritan teaching on prayer to inspire and inform your own devotions. You will discover how to bring God into all aspects of your life through prayer.

Key Features

• Introduces reflections of English Puritans on Christian prayer
• Presents Puritans’ understandings of prayer and show how these can nourish our Christian faith today
• Explores the context and emphases of the passage

Praise for the Print Edition

Donald McKim . . . offer[s] us not only well-earned wisdom and sensible encouragement on prayer but also gentle questions to make sure we are making connections ourselves. His goal is not merely to teach us more about prayer but to help us actually to pray!

—Kelly M. Kapic, Professor of Theology, Covenant College

Praying readers will find meditations on God’s Word, pithy quotations from Puritans, and encouragements in the form of reflection questions and prayer points. Read this book on your knees and you will draw closer to the God of the patriarchs, the prophets, and other parents in the faith.

—Chad Van Dixhoorn, Professor of Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary

This book presents Puritan insights into God-centered, biblical spirituality in order to enrich our prayers. Donald McKim’s . . . profound meditations are very helpful.

—Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: Everyday Prayer with the Puritans
• Author: Donald K. McKim
• Series: Everyday Prayer Series
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 133
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Prayer › Christianity; Prayer › Biblical teaching; Puritans › Doctrines
• ISBNs: 9781629957708, 9781629957715, 9781629957722, 1629957704, 1629957712, 1629957720
• Resource ID: LLS:VRYDYPRYRPRTNS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:39:55Z

About Donald K. McKim

Dr. Donald K. McKim is an Honorably Retired minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has served as Editor for Being Reformed: Faith Seeking Understanding for Congregational Ministries Publishing of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He was Editor of These Days (2009-2014) and has also served as Editor for The Present Word and Joining the Feast in the Feasting on the Word curriculum published by Westminster John Knox Press. He was Executive Editor for Theology and Reference for Westminster John Knox Press (2000-2012); Academic Dean and Professor of Theology at Memphis Theological Seminary (1993-2000); and Professor of Theology at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (1981-1988). Dr. McKim has al-so been Visiting Professor of Theology at Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia and Co-lumbia Seminary's Center for Theological Studies in Orlando, Florida as well as Adjunct Pro-fessor of Theology at Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, New York and Adjunct Faculty at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. McKim was Interim Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and the Trinity Presbyterian Church of Berwyn, Pennsylvania as well as Stated Supply Pastor of Friendship, Parish, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. For two years he was a Visiting Faculty member in the Religion Department of Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He has served and presently serves on the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and has served on the Board of the Buechner Institute. He has been a Distinguished Alumnus from Pittsburgh Theological Semi-nary (1994) and received the Alumni Citation for Achievement from Westminster College (2012).