Weekend Reads: Communion with God through prayer and the Psalms
It’s only 50 pages, but it contains what (at the risk of sounding irreverent) one might call the distilled spirit of colonial America’s great theologian. Jonathan Edwards: His Doctrine of and Devotion to Prayer (Biblical Spirituality Press, 2013).
Edwards prayed frequently. He had prayer time built into his schedule. He took additional, non-scheduled time throughout the day to pray in private. He also led his family in public prayer. When he went horseback riding for exercise, he often rode into the woods, dismounted, and began to pray....