cover image Miracles Happen When You Pray: True Stories of the Remarkable Power of Prayer

Miracles Happen When You Pray: True Stories of the Remarkable Power of Prayer

Quin Sherrer. Zondervan Publishing Company, $10.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-310-20997-3

Believing that prayer is a way of opening oneself up to God's ability to perform miracles in one's life, Sherrer shares true accounts of Christians who have had miracles occur in their lives. An author of many books on Christian spirituality, Sherrer relates stories that involve people being rescued suddenly from dangerous situations, miracles of healing and the discovery of lost objects. At the end of each chapter, Sherrer provides Bible verses to be memorized and to be used to initiate the life of prayer. On the whole, these personal accounts of miraculous responses to prayer are simple, delightful and inspiring. But they lack commentary on such obvious questions as what happens when a prayer for a miracle receives no response. In the end, then, Sherrer offers only a superficial grasp of the meaning and function of prayer in the religious life. (May)