Book Blog - A Call to Spiritual Reformation - Blog

Salt now has a book blog with reviews of some of the books that are available for you to check out from the Salt Book Cart. Every now and then we will feature one of the reviews on this website to remind you to check out the Salt Book Blog as well as the Salt Book Cart.

Pastor Lutzer has been talking the past few weeks about the importance of praying Scripture. His blog Pray With Me gives examples of how to do this. If you’d like to learn more, we have books in our Salt Book Cart that you can check out, one of which is:

A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers by D.A. Carson

If you’ve been around Salt for awhile, you’ve probably heard Pastor Steve recommend this book. It’s really worth reading.  D.A. Carson, a leading New Testament scholar, goes through several of the prayers of Paul and takes a look at his priorities in prayer. Carson also shares some additional  practical help, including lessons on prayer he has learned from other Christians.

“If some generations need to learn that God is not particularly impressed by long-winded prayers, and is not more disposed to help us just because we are garrulous, our generation needs to learn that God is not impressed by the kind of brevity that is nothing other than culpable negligence. He is not more disposed to help us because our insincerity and spiritual flightiness conspire to keep our prayers brief. Our generation certainly needs to learn something more about persistence in prayer…”

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Salt Book Cart: 1 copy