Prayers for People Under Pressure - Softcover
This new book by Jonathan Aitken is written in a style and format similar to Psalms for People Under Pressure. The formula has proved extremely popular.
Here are fifty selected prayers each accompanied by a spiritual reflection and personal, autobiographical comment. The prayers fall neatly into categories.
Jonathan Aitken has been collecting prayers over the years and has written some of his own. This book draws on both.
Aitken reached the gates of hell when he fell from power and was condemned to prison for perjury and corruption. This is a man who knows pressure at first hand - the pressure of disgrace.
But in his earlier life, the author was a city financier and Government Minister. An audience Jonathan Aitken always has in mind is all those people who live highly pressured lives - over whom hang targets, budgets, five year plans like the Sword of Damocles. People should never be too busy to pray.
Here are fifty selected prayers each accompanied by a spiritual reflection and personal, autobiographical comment. The prayers fall neatly into categories.
Jonathan Aitken has been collecting prayers over the years and has written some of his own. This book draws on both.
Aitken reached the gates of hell when he fell from power and was condemned to prison for perjury and corruption. This is a man who knows pressure at first hand - the pressure of disgrace.
But in his earlier life, the author was a city financier and Government Minister. An audience Jonathan Aitken always has in mind is all those people who live highly pressured lives - over whom hang targets, budgets, five year plans like the Sword of Damocles. People should never be too busy to pray.
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About the Author:
Jonathan Aitken, a former MP and cabinet minister, is the author of 12 books, including his award-winning biography of President Richard Nixon. His recent titles published by Continuum include Pride and Perjury, Psalms for People under Pressure, Prayers for People under Pressure, Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed, Heroes and Contemporaries and Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan.
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"For those who have their own prayer time in private each day (...) here is material and advice from someone who has been there, done it, got the T-shirt and is still doing it...Well worth reading, with something to chew on." (Amos SSF, Franciscan, Vol. 19 No. 1, January 2007)
Mentioned in The Plain Truth (after an interview with J Aitken)
Mentioned in The War Cry, August 2007 (The War Cry)
"Jonathan Aitken has had access to previously unpublished material and here provides a fascinating and scholarly picture of an extraordinary man" (Good Book Guide)
"For those who have their own prayer time in private each day (...) here is material and advice from someone who has been there, done it, got the T-shirt and is still doing it...Well worth reading, with something to chew on." (Sanford Lakoff)
Mentioned in The War Cry, August 2007 (Sanford Lakoff)
"Jonathan Aitken has had access to previously unpublished material and here provides a fascinating and scholarly picture of an extraordinary man" (Sanford Lakoff)
Mentioned in The Plain Truth (after an interview with J Aitken)
Mentioned in The War Cry, August 2007 (The War Cry)
"Jonathan Aitken has had access to previously unpublished material and here provides a fascinating and scholarly picture of an extraordinary man" (Good Book Guide)
"For those who have their own prayer time in private each day (...) here is material and advice from someone who has been there, done it, got the T-shirt and is still doing it...Well worth reading, with something to chew on." (Sanford Lakoff)
Mentioned in The War Cry, August 2007 (Sanford Lakoff)
"Jonathan Aitken has had access to previously unpublished material and here provides a fascinating and scholarly picture of an extraordinary man" (Sanford Lakoff)
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0826476392
- ISBN 13 9780826476395
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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