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Title: Pryaer: Does It Make Any Difference
Author: Philip Yancey
Genre: Christian non-fiction
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 395
Date read: September, 2009

Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat - the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect - of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? Does it change God's mind or ours - or both? This book is an invitation to communicate with God the Father who invites us into an eternal partnership through prayer.

Interesting book about prayer. Yancey touches upon some important issues like why we pray and how we pray. Do we use God as an automaton and expect him to answer our every prayer as if he were fulfilling requests? Or do we pray in order to get to know God better and align our own thoughts with his?

But though I liked what the book had to say, and really enjoyed the small anecdotes he shared throughout the book, I'm not exactly sure that I learned anything from it. It did bring up some interesting points, but even here - just two days after finishing it - I'm having difficulties remembering what those points were, so they obviously didn't make too big an impression on me.