Intercession: More Than Wishful Thinking

24/04/2025 14 min Temporada 1 Episodio 3
Intercession: More Than Wishful Thinking

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Episode Synopsis

The third episode of the "How Prayer Works" podcast will delve into thequestions: what is prayer and look at what both ancient and more modern folksdefine it as? Additionally, we ask the question: Why bother with prayer anyway?Why bother with intercession? Shouldn’t we let go and just accept our fate? Wewill look at of all people, John Calvin’s thoughts on prayer. We finish off onlooking at four aspects of intercessory prayer: breaking it down to help us to wrapour heads around it.Why bother with intercession - challenging common attitudes of ‘que sera, sera, whatever will be will be with, of all people, John Calvin’s thoughts onthat.What are the four aspects of intercession?The challenge of how are we doing in our own prayer lives?Support the show