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Prayer is central to the Christian life, which is why John Calvin spends more time on prayer than on any other topic in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. Drawing from the Institutes and Calvin’s Old and New Testament commentaries, Donald K. McKim comments on Calvin’s biblical insights on prayer and intersperses his short readings with Calvin’s own prayers. Reflection questions and prayer...

We can pray in two ways: through unspoken thoughts that we direct toward God and through words that we speak audibly. In both cases, we focus our attention on God, knowing that he surely and certainly hears our prayers, whether they are “unuttered or expressed.”* Calvin noted that sometimes the best prayers are silent—inaudible to others and known only by the one who is silently praying and by God. He wrote, “Even though the best prayers are sometimes
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