God, Help Me - How to Grow in Prayer

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"if you want to know who you are and why you're here, start praying every day."
-From Chapter 1

You're in your teens, your twenties, your thirties and you're wondering - does prayer have anything at all to do with your life?  You don't pray, at least not regularly, and you don't really know how.  On the other hand, if God is who he says he is, and if he communicates with us through prayer, as Scripture and the saints and plenty of ordinary people say he soes, then clearly you're missing out on something huge.

Jim Beckman will not only introduce you to the wisdom and teaching of the Church regarding prayer, he will also provide tools that will help you achieve

Great book on prayer!

I am an avid reader. As a matter of fact, I'm in the middle of three different books right now. I believe that good spiritual reading can bring you closer to Christ, so I always try to have a spiritual book with me. When I found out that an acquaintance of mine wrote a book I picked it up. Jim Beckman, whether he realizes it or not, has played a pretty significant role in my spiritual development. I first met Jim last summer at a conference at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. I was there to get my youth ministry certification, and Jim was the coordinator of the program. Jim recently published a book titled "God Help Me: How to Grow in Prayer." Of course, when I found out he wrote a book, I had to read it!

I have given a lot of time and thought on the importance of prayer. I understand that there is a need to sacrifice ourselves in prayer and force ourselves to do it even in the midst of feeling spiritually desolate. Beckman addresses this issue t Full Review...

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