A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers

by D. A. Carson

Publisher:

Baker

, 1992

Overview

God doesn't demand hectic church programs and frenetic schedules. God only wants his people to know him more intimately. The apostle Paul found that spiritual closeness in his own fellowship with the Father. A Call to Spiritual Reformation investigates the Epistles to see what lessons Paul taught in his "school of prayer." Christians today can still achieve the confidence Paul enjoyed by following his life-shaping principles and searching for a deeper devotional experience.

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Product Details

• Title: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
• Author: D. A. Carson
• Publisher: Baker
• Publication Date: 1992
• Pages: 230

About D. A. Carson

D. A. Carson (PhD, University of Cambridge) is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author or editor of more than forty books.

Contents

Top Highlights

“One of the foundational steps in knowing God, and one of the basic demonstrations that we do know God, is prayer—spiritual, persistent, biblically minded prayer. Writing a century and a half ago, Robert Murray M’Cheyne declared, ‘What a man is alone on his knees before God, that he is, and no more.’” (Page 16)

“One of the most useful things is to vocalize your prayers.” (Page 20)

“But by and large, our thanksgiving seems to be tied rather tightly to our material well-being and comfort. The unvarnished truth is that what we most frequently give thanks for betrays what we most highly value. If a large percentage of our thanksgiving is for material prosperity, it is because we value material prosperity proportionately.” (Page 41)

“What they meant is that Christians should pray long enough and honestly enough, at a single session, to get past the feeling of formalism and unreality that attends not a little praying.” (Page 36)

“Biblical knowledge can be merely academic and rigorous, but somehow not edifying, not life-giving, not devout, not guileless.” (Page 15)

Product Details

• Title: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
• Author: D. A. Carson
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 1992
• Logos Release Date: 2006
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Prayer › Biblical teaching; Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9781441250278, 9780801025693, 1441250271, 0801025699
• Resource ID: LLS:SPTREFPAUL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:07:30Z

About D. A. Carson

D.A. Carson (b. 1946) is one of the most respected New Testament scholars in the world. A respected teacher, author, and speaker, he is currently research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the president of The Gospel Coalition. He has served as pastor of Richmond Baptist Church and as the first dean of the seminary of Northwest Baptist Theological College, now known as Northwest Baptist Seminary. Logos has collected his sermons—including audio—in the D.A. Carson Sermon Archive.

Carson lectures in academic and church settings around the world, and is the author of more than 50 books, including Exegetical Fallacies, Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to John, The Gagging of God, Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12–14 and the Intolerance of Tolerance. He is the editor of the Pillar New Testament Commentary series, and coedited of the Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament with G.K. Beale, and the Studies in New Testament Greek series with Stanley Porter. You can find more of Carson’s work in the Baker D.A. Carson Collection (15 vols.).