In the News ... "Book cites Biblical examples of prayer"

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• "Prayer is a privilege, not something we’re entitled to.”

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American
 
ODESSA, TEXAS - Author of a just-published book on prayer, the Rev. Dr. Landon Coleman says praying in a Biblically based fashion is more pleasing to God and thereby more effective.
The pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church at 2040 E. University Blvd. said his 207-page Rainer Publishing book, “Pray Better: Learning to Pray Biblically,” resulted from lessons he’d given at churches in Frankfort, Ky., and Kingfisher, Okla.

“We studied the prayers given by Moses, David and Paul and said, ‘Maybe we don’t pray much like them,” said Coleman, who has been at the church here since the spring of last year ...

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