Customer Reviews
Best Guide to Prayer - By: Rolf Mason, 31 Jul 2007 
Richard Foster writes profoundly useful material in a kind & generous way. He understands the pressing need for guidance & help for alll Christians in working out expressions of faith, & living lives that honour God.
It is no surprise then that he should write about Prayer; the dynamo for Christian life. He offers an excellent tour of different types of prayer, giving tips & hints in some areas, words of caution too, but always gently encouraging us to try & pray more often, & in greater variety.
When I read this book I was deeply grateful for the affirmation it gave me. I realised that I pray in a number of ways, which was an encouragment. But I also realised that I still have a lot to learn & experience.
This wasn't a book to be rushed, & while other books on prayer may simply pass on the information, Richard Foster's book invites you to pause & try it out.
In that one regard I strongly recommend this book to any Christian (or not) who is interested in broadening their prayer life, & therefore relationship with God.
something for everyone: new christians, old hands, and seekers after truth - By: Bernard Davis, 20 Sep 2006 I bought this book when it first came out in 1992 & am now on my third copy. It is a book that I keep coming back to myself, & enthusiasticallly recommend to others. The author offers the reader the opportunity to find `the heart's true home'. It is obvious from the book's style that it is written by someone who has been on that voyage of discovery themselves, rather than by someone who has a dry academic interest in prayer.
It is the burden of Richard Foster's life to show people that the genuine spiritual life is deeper, wider & talller than they could ever imagine, & to encourage them to `come on in' & discover it themselves. The author never comes across as someone who knows it alll. The book is full of descriptions of how he came to experience areas of prayer & he is honest enough to admit where is he is (at the time of writing), & the places that he has yet to explore himself. The effect of his style on me is that I find myself putting down the book, not to analyse what I have read, but to get on with praying myself.
There is no attempt to steer the reader in the direction of any particular church or form of Christianity. The author draws on the Bible & key figures from across alll church boundaries & alll ages over the last 2000 years who have explored the life of prayer - intimacy with God. Whether you are a new Christian, an old hand, or simply a seeker after truth this book will have something for you in it, as Richard Foster is an old hand himself, who is always keen to discover knew things about God's heart & is always open to fresh perspectives on the truth.
