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PublisherConcordia Publishing House

ISBN-100758614217

ISBN-139780758614216

eBay Product ID (ePID)78478432

Product Key Features

Number of PagesVI, 409 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStarck's Prayer Book : from the German Edition of Dr. F. Pieper

Publication Year2009

SubjectPrayerbooks / Christian, Christian Life / Prayer, Christian Life / Devotional

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion

AuthorW. H. T. Dau, Johann Friedrich Starck

FormatHardcover

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2009-011456

Dewey Edition22

Original LanguageGerman

Dewey Decimal242

SynopsisSince 1921, the Concordia Edition of Starck's Prayer Book has encouraged thousands of Christians in their personal prayer lives. This updated edition provides a comprehensive collection of prayers and meditations that speak to contemporary Christians while preserving the richness and depth of expression of the original. Johann Starck's prayers do what all genuine prayers do: they draw the believer into the internal life of the blessed Trinity and teach the joy of living in His presence throughout the day, week, year, the good times and the bad. From the Preface This book is offered to Christians of the twenty-first century in slightly updated garb, who live in a world very different from that inhabited by a Lutheran clergyman of the seventeenth century, in the hope that those who use it will discover, in the vibrant faith that rings through and shapes these prayers from another era, the voice of the faith once delivered to the saints., If man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, then Johann Starck has provided a bread basket for the Church with his Prayer-Book. This book of daily prayers, hymns, poetry, and devotions presents in every syllable the Bread that has come down from heaven. Written as daily nourishment in the Word of God, this book also lends itself to meditation and prayer during many of life's peculiar situations. Professor Dau describes Starck well when he writes, Starck loved nothing sensational, nothing that was for mere display in matters of religion. Christian life, to him, was real and earnest, to be conducted in a sober mind. He was always bent on its practical applications to every pursuit and action, and on enlisting really the whole of a person in the service of the Master. When Christians nourish their souls daily with meditation upon the Word of God and the Sacraments, faith is strengthened. The Bread of Life fills hearts and minds, and Christ finds expression in the world through Christian life and speech. A contemporary pastor said it best when he said Starck gives Christians a daily helping of meditation in God's Word, and leads them to satisfaction in their vocational tasks.

LC Classification NumberBV4834.S713 2009