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This will be a relatively brief book review, as this is a relatively short book! I’ve been watching The Good Book Company<\/a> publish a series of these slim ‘5 things to pray for…’ books for a little while, and wondered if, from a publishing perspective, they are on to a winner. I finally picked up one of them –\u00a05 Things to Pray for your City<\/em> – for free at my new job this week, and flicked through it on the way home.<\/p>\n For those familiar with the ‘5 things’ format, I’d imagine this is a good example of that, with a helpful set of direction and inspiration to pray for the good of the places we live.<\/p>\n For those (including me, dear reader!) who are not, I should probably unpack that. Pete Nicholls and Helen Thorne have put together a really helpful, usable, pocket-sized prayer guide. As Tim Keller notes at the opening of his introduction\/foreword, “The Jewish exiles in Babylon were told to pray for\u00a0<\/em>their city (Jeremiah 29:7) although and because it was a very pagan place… It is reasonable to conclude that God wants Christians everywhere to pray for\u00a0their cities<\/i>“. This book will help us to do just that.<\/p>\n Using bible verses and a clear structure,\u00a05 Things to Pray for your City<\/em> considers four key areas of city life to pray for. Life, Justice, Church and Witness are the foci, with some sensible and biblical particular prayer points. For example, I was glad to see both the marginalised and older people being named – with brief reflection on the why and how of God’s love for them.<\/p>\n This is\u00a0not<\/strong> a book to ‘read’ – it is instead a tool to aid in your prayer life, specifically in prayer for the place you live. It could work as an aid to quiet times, or as a foundation for a specific prayer group (either in your local church, or with a gathering of Christians from a spread of local churches). Having delved into it, I’m now more likely to seek out some of the other ‘5 Things’ titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This will be a relatively brief book review, as this is a relatively short book! I’ve been watching The Good Book Company publish a series of these slim ‘5 things to pray for…’ books for a little while, and wondered … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,2,392,88,793,44,589,223,401],"tags":[763,794,795,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}