Prayers that lead to a growing intimacy with God.
Heart-learning, not just more head knowledge.
Walking conversations with God.
These are a few of the fruits produced by a spiritual practice called holy walks.
Rooted in the ancient art of praying the Psalms, holy walks enrich our understanding and practice of prayer by integrating prayer-walking and learning the Psalms by heart.
In a practical, deeply personal, and at times humorous manner, Steve Simon shares how holy walks have transformed his own prayer life and revitalized his walk with God--and how they can do the same for the reader.
In addition to explaining the spiritual practice of holy walks, Holy Walks also provides an introduction to the book of Psalms, which will be especially valuable for those with limited knowledge of the Bible.
Exploring five types of psalms, Holy Walks describes how God uses them to shape our heart in life-giving ways no matter what peaks we're climbing or valleys we're traversing.
The book concludes with a discussion on what the Psalms teach about God's relationship with us as our creator, leader, and rescuer.
Steve Simon walks us through the deep waters of the Psalms.
He invites us to rejoice and to lament, to plead and to praise, to question God and to question our own hearts.
And as we read his book we become baptized in the prayers that have strengthened the faithful for 3, 000 years.
--Dann Stouten, Regional Coordinator, Reformed Church in America, and author of The Gate Christians are a strange combination of earthly and spiritual.
They are both, and all the time.
So walking a dog and praying the Psalms seems the perfect image of what it means to be Christian.
Steve Simon captures this tension in his Holy Walks.
He walks his dog and prays the Psalms every day.
Holy Walks is an extended meditation on that practice.
--Gerald L.
Sittser, Professor of Theology, Whitworth University, and author of A Grace Disguised and Water from a Deep Well In Holy Walks, Steve Simon inv.
