Prayer Resources

Resources

Video Series | Books | Centering Prayer | Daily Offices | Examen
Fasting | Ignatian Method | Intercessory Prayer | Labyrinth / Walking Prayer
Lectio Divina | Listening Prayer | Liturgical Prayer | Mobile Apps | Websites

Please also refer to our Discipleship Resources page.

Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.
Matthew 6:6-7 (The Message)

Prayers for the Times

• Prayers for Peace during Civil Unrest and Racial Tension from the Archbishop of Canterbury

Video Series

• Exploring Prayer from Archbishop Justin Welby
• The Prayer Course, based on the Lord's Prayer, with Pete Grieg, 24-7 Prayer movement
  • See also Building a Culture of Prayer by Pete Grieg
• Lord's Prayer video series presented by Bishop Bill Hockin:
  • 1. Our Father | 2. Your Kingdom Come | 3. Daily Bread | 4. Forgive Us | 5. Save Us
  • Preaching notes from Bishop Bill's book Pray

Books

• Pray – Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer, Bishop Bill Hockin, 2017
• Preaching notes to accompany book
• Noticing God, Richard Peace, Intervarsity Press, 2012
• Meditative Prayer, Richard Peace, NavPress, year (reprinting by Wipf and Stock)
• How to Pray, E. Stanley Jones, republished Upper Room Books, 2015 (based on original work from 1943)
• Praying the Lord’s Prayer, J. I. Packer, Crossway Books, 2007
• Prayer, Timothy Keller, Penguin Group, 2014
• Celebration of Discipline, Richard J. Foster, HarperSanFrancisco, 1978, 1988
• Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, Richard J. Foster, HarperSanFrancisco, 1992
• Prayer: Does it Make a Difference?, Philip Yancey, Zondervan, 2006
• Too Busy Not to Pray, Bill Hybels, Intervarsity Press, 1988
• Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamont, Penguin Group, 2012
• A Guidebook to Prayer: 24 Ways to Walk with God, MaryKate Morse, InterVarsity Press, 2013
• Companions in Christ – Deepening our Prayer, Adele J. Gonzalez, Upper Room Books, 2006
• Messy Church 3: Session 6 - The Lord's Prayer, The Bible Reading Fellowship, 2012

Centering Prayer

• Contemplative Outreach Canada
• Centering Prayer Mobile App by Contemplative Outreach Ltd.: iTunes Google Play

Daily Prayer / Offices

(See also Liturgical Prayer)

• Church of England Daily Prayer
• The Forward Movement Daily Prayer Office
• The Mission of St. Clare Daily Office
• 40-day Prayer Journeys (London Institute for Contemporary Christianity)
• Sacred Space
• 3-Minute Retreats – Daily Online Prayer – Loyola Press
• Online Lectionary

Examen

Part of the Ignatius exercises, a daily examination of one’s deepest feelings and desires.

• Jesuits – Ignatian Spirituality
• The Upper Room

Fasting

Christian fasting is voluntarily going without food in order to focus on prayer and fellowship with God; it symbolizes taking our eyes off the things of this world and surrendering all our needs to God.

• Fasting for Beginners
• 7 Steps to Fasting
• She Reads Truth

Ignatian Method

Named after Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), this method of prayer involves the reading of scripture seeking to enter into the story in order to learn more about and participate more fully in the mind, the heart, and the work of Christ.

• Jesuits – Ignatian Spirituality
• Ignatian Spirituality – a service of Loyola Press
• The Upper Room

Intercessory Prayer

• The Upper Room

Labyrinth / Walking Prayer

• Labyrinth
• The Upper Room

Lectio Divina (divine reading)

Also known as praying the scriptures, this method involves reading scripture devotionally rather than as a process of study. The object is not to master the text but to let the text master oneself.

• Contemplative Outreach
• The Upper Room

Listening Prayer

“Speak Lord, for your servant is listening”

• The Art of Listening Prayer
• The Listening Prayer Community (Greater Vancouver)

Liturgical Prayer

The saying of written prayers, often assigned to specific days or seasons of the Christian year. (See also Daily Prayer/Offices above)

• Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove and Enuma Okoro, Zondervan, 2010
• Celtic Daily Prayer: Prayers and Readings from the Northumbria Community, HarperSanFrancisco, 2002
• Evangelizo

Mobile Prayer Apps

• Echo Prayer app: iTunes | Google Play  
• Centering Prayer by Contemplative Outreach Ltd.: iTunes | Google Play
• Pray as You Go by MoveApp: iTunes | Google Play
• Sacred Space by Loyola Press: iTunes | Google Play

Websites

• Thy Kingdom Come – global prayer initiative led by the Archbishop of Canterbury
• Just Pray, UK
• Anglican Fellowship of Prayer
• The Forward Movement (Forward Day by Day)
• Society of Saint John the Evangelist
• Taizé
• Sacred Space
• The Upper Room
• Prayer Bench
• Christian Prayer for Dummies