Sometimes it seems like Christian prayer is just a list of what we want or need. But there can be more to prayer, prayers can be deeper than want lists... even prayers that ask God for things, or ask God to do things. This book upholds petitionary prayer as an important way for us to be involved with God's work in this world. At the center of this kind of praying is the cry that God's kingdom might come into the world.

Author Stanley Grenz was Professor of Theology at Carey Theological College. This edition has been revised, completely rewritten, and has additional material, inlcuding a new foreward by Eugene Peterson.