Prayer Video Bible Study Session One - The View From Above | Philip Yancey

Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference?

In this six-session small group Bible study, award-winning author Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat—the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect—of our relationship with God: prayer.

What is prayer? How does it work? And more importantly, does it work? In theory, prayer is the essential human act, a priceless point of contact between us and the God of the universe. In practice, prayer is often frustrating, confusing, and fraught with mystery. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? is an exploration of the mysterious intersection where God and humans meet and relate.

Yancey explores such questions as:
•Is God listening?
•Why should God care about me?
•If God knows everything, what's the point of prayer?
•Why do answers to prayer seem so inconsistent and capricious?
•Why does God seem sometimes close and sometimes far away?
•How can I make prayer more satisfying?

Sessions include:
1. The View from Above
2. Why Pray?
3. Keeping Company with God
4. How to Pray
5. Prayer Problems
6. Does Prayer Change Anything?

Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written thirteen Gold Medallion Award-winning books and won two ECPA Book of the Year awards for What's So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew. Four of his books have sold over one million copies. Yancey lives with his wife in Colorado.