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The Bible For Normal People

Episode 155: Sarah Bessey - Why Bother Praying?

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.73.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Praying can feel difficult during hard times and especially after a faith deconstruction. Sarah Bessey joins us on this episode of the podcast to talk about what inspired her to write a book on prayer and shares what has been helpful in her discovery of what it means to pray.  Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to this episode of the Bible for normal people before we jump in

0:03.9

Just want to mention that we have a class if you haven't heard the last few weeks

0:08.2

We have the book Exodus for normal people out now

0:11.9

We thought it would be great to do a one night class as well on Exodus, you know

0:15.6

Because we just can't get our fill of Exodus so February 25th 830 to 10 p.m. Eastern time

0:22.0

It's called beyond the Prince of Egypt how to read the book of Exodus like an adult Pete

0:27.0

You want to give a word about what you'll be doing way beyond the

0:29.7

Prince of Egypt so yeah the book of Exodus is intriguing challenging complicated and

0:35.8

There are just a lot of moving parts so we were gonna talk about that in an hour with some Q&A afterwards and just sort of highlights

0:44.2

About what's going on in this book and what it means to read this book with adult eyes and not just sort of as a story

0:51.5

We know as children yep

0:52.6

So go to the Bible for normal people dot com front slash prints to learn more

0:57.2

It's pay what you can so we don't want to turn anyone away again for lack of funds pay what you can for this one night class

1:03.3

February 25th 830 to 10 p.m. Eastern time see you there

1:09.5

Welcome everyone to this episode of the podcast and today we're talking about why bother praying and we have

1:16.2

Friend of the podcast back on Sarah Bessie. Yeah, and what prompted this episode was a book that Sarah

1:23.6

Has been working on apparently for maybe about a year and a half

1:26.5

That just came out recently. I guess maybe a couple weeks ago and it's called a rhythm of prayer a collection of

1:33.3

meditations for renewal and

1:35.6

You know, I don't know how what how you people feel about like a book about prayer

1:39.9

Oh gosh, is it techniques? No, no, no, no

1:43.5

No, no, no, no, no, no, this this is a raw honest book that I think it's the kind of thing a lot of people gonna resonate with

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