Andrew Murray

Teach Me To Pray

by andrewkooman on May 16, 2011

My nephew and godson turned 3 this past week.  I decided, and was prompted, to make him a book. It’s a colourful one that summarizes some of Andrew Murray’s life-changing principles from With Christ in the School of Prayer into (hopefully) simple-to-understand truths. Here’s screen shots of a few of the 20 pages from the [...]

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Put THAT in your pipe and… distribute it?

by andrewkooman on June 10, 2010

Our prayer is like pipes, through which water is carried from a large mountain stream to a town some distance away.  Such water pipes don’t make the water willing to flow down from the hills, nor do they give it its power of blessing and refreshment.  This is its nature.  All they do is to [...]

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iron framework

by andrewkooman on May 12, 2010

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The Hidden Life

by andrewkooman on March 26, 2010

I dusted off my copy of Dallas Willard‘s The Divine Conspiracy, and have started reading the book once more.  He writes about the hidden life in God, a life of meaning open to everyone – a way that seems closed to many: “The major problem with the invitation now is precisely over-familiarity.  Familiarity breeds unfamiliarity, [...]

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What I Don’t Know

by andrewkooman on March 13, 2010

Don’t worry.  It’s not an exhaustive list.  We do not have space enough or time. You ever read something and feel like everything you know or knew just doesn’t cut it? I’m motivated by a line from one of the best book’s I’ve read, during an arc in the narrative that cut through my flesh [...]

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The Secret of Believing Prayer

by andrewkooman on January 20, 2010

I’m reading through Andrew Murray’s With Christ in the School of Prayer.  And that’s what’s happening.  I’m being schooled.  And it was good. Today I found the book online: a gift!  It can be a difficult book to find, depending where in the world you are.  I got my present copy in India. This morning I [...]

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God who breathes life into the tired and feeble lungs of the world

by andrewkooman on December 24, 2009

i’m reading Andrew Murray. because i want to learn how to pray again.  or, perhaps for the very first time. he writes about the Our Father, what he calls The Model Prayer: Our Father which art in heaven. His Father, Murray says, is our Father, too. It is the essence of redemption: Christ delivers us [...]

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