Centering Prayer: Sitting Quietly in God's Presence Can Change Your Life
A new, but ancient, way to pray can turn your life around. Discover how to experience God’s love at your core, freeing you to love others, and even yourself. 

When biblical scholar and coach Brian Russell discovered centering prayer at a difficult crossroad in his life, he had no idea how his life would change. “Sensing God’s love for me has been so transformational that it almost feels as though I’ve experienced conversion all over again,” he writes. He became calmer, less anxious, less reactive, freed of past wounds, and a better listener in the presence of others. 

Centering prayer, also known as the prayer of silence, helps you quiet your mind from the constant thoughts and impulses, and frees your true self to experience more of God’s love in the very core of your being.  

This inviting guide gives you practical tools to make centering prayer a consistent habit in your life, gives the history and theological foundation for the practice, and helps identify and overcome common obstacles. Beginners, as well as seasoned practitioners, will gain inspiration, rich insight, and practical knowledge of a contemplative prayer practice that can open you up to deep experiences of inner healing and peace.

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Centering Prayer: Sitting Quietly in God's Presence Can Change Your Life
A new, but ancient, way to pray can turn your life around. Discover how to experience God’s love at your core, freeing you to love others, and even yourself. 

When biblical scholar and coach Brian Russell discovered centering prayer at a difficult crossroad in his life, he had no idea how his life would change. “Sensing God’s love for me has been so transformational that it almost feels as though I’ve experienced conversion all over again,” he writes. He became calmer, less anxious, less reactive, freed of past wounds, and a better listener in the presence of others. 

Centering prayer, also known as the prayer of silence, helps you quiet your mind from the constant thoughts and impulses, and frees your true self to experience more of God’s love in the very core of your being.  

This inviting guide gives you practical tools to make centering prayer a consistent habit in your life, gives the history and theological foundation for the practice, and helps identify and overcome common obstacles. Beginners, as well as seasoned practitioners, will gain inspiration, rich insight, and practical knowledge of a contemplative prayer practice that can open you up to deep experiences of inner healing and peace.

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Centering Prayer: Sitting Quietly in God's Presence Can Change Your Life

Centering Prayer: Sitting Quietly in God's Presence Can Change Your Life

by Brian D. Russell
Centering Prayer: Sitting Quietly in God's Presence Can Change Your Life

Centering Prayer: Sitting Quietly in God's Presence Can Change Your Life

by Brian D. Russell

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Overview

A new, but ancient, way to pray can turn your life around. Discover how to experience God’s love at your core, freeing you to love others, and even yourself. 

When biblical scholar and coach Brian Russell discovered centering prayer at a difficult crossroad in his life, he had no idea how his life would change. “Sensing God’s love for me has been so transformational that it almost feels as though I’ve experienced conversion all over again,” he writes. He became calmer, less anxious, less reactive, freed of past wounds, and a better listener in the presence of others. 

Centering prayer, also known as the prayer of silence, helps you quiet your mind from the constant thoughts and impulses, and frees your true self to experience more of God’s love in the very core of your being.  

This inviting guide gives you practical tools to make centering prayer a consistent habit in your life, gives the history and theological foundation for the practice, and helps identify and overcome common obstacles. Beginners, as well as seasoned practitioners, will gain inspiration, rich insight, and practical knowledge of a contemplative prayer practice that can open you up to deep experiences of inner healing and peace.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781640606432
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Publication date: 09/21/2021
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 1,002,126
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Brian D. Russell (Ph.D.) is an ordained pastor, an award winning professor of Biblical studies, and founder of Deep Dive Spirituality a coaching program for pastors and spiritual leaders interested in deepening their spiritual formation for authentic Christian living and mission in the world.  Brian's calling is this: to seek out, study, and embody the deepest truths of God in order to model and teach them to others lovingly, compellingly, and transformationally. Brian is married to the love of his life. Together they are parents to six adult children and three grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Prologue 7

Introduction 9

Part 1 How to Practice Centering Prayer

Chapter 1 What Centering Prayer Is 15

Chapter 2 Why Our Souls Need Solitude 27

Chapter 3 How to Fail at Centering Prayer 36

Chapter 4 Centering Prayer and Loving to Perfection 39

Chapter 5 Centering Prayer and Meditation 43

Chapter 6 Deep Surrender 48

Chapter 7 Centering Prayer as Appreciation 53

Chapter 8 Renouncing the Need for the Spectacular 56

Part 2 More Biblical/Theological Foundations

Chapter 9 Loving the God of Holy Love 63

Chapter 10 The Great Commandments and Four Loves 71

Chapter 11 The Fear of God as the Freedom for Love 81

Part 3 Thinking About Our Thoughts

Chapter 12 Hamster-Wheel Minds 91

Chapter 13 Inner Purification and Growth in Love 99

Part 4 Confronting the False Self

Chapter 14 The Enemy Within 113

Chapter 15 Entering the Cave 124

Chapter 16 Healing of the False Self 127

Chapter 17 Breaking Through to the True You 133

Chapter 18 The Upward Spiral of Love 140

Part 5 The Fruits of Centering Prayer

Chapter 19 Into the World 147

Chapter 10 Freedom to Love 152

Chapter 21 Free to Forgive 156

Chapter 22 The Power of Presence for Others 160

Conclusion 163

Notes 165

Acknowledgments 171

About the Author 173

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