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A Beginner’s Guide to Prayer speaks to the average person on the street who desires a deeper relationship with God, but is unsure how or where to begin. It’s a book written neither for monastics or scholars, but for those everyday believers who are struggling to establish an effective prayer life. Drawing from nearly 2000 years of Orthodox spiritual wisdom, Keiser offers warm, practical, pastoral...

St. Paul bids us to pray “without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). When he wrote “without ceasing,” he meant just that, but if you have ever tried to do it, you might be forgiven for thinking that unceasing prayer is impossible. Until we reach the level of feeling prayer, it probably is. Feeling prayer is what Paul wrote about in Romans 8:26, which we have already quoted. The Holy Spirit moves within us, bubbling up like a spring—sometimes with good words, sometimes with groans
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