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Pete Greig

How to Pray, by Pete Greig

How to Pray is a great book about prayer. It’s simple, approachable, and filled with engaging stories. If you struggle with prayer (as I often do) this is an encouraging book.

On a personal note, Pete likes to say he and I met in a bar in Hawaii almost a decade ago (more or less true, though I remember it as a restaurant). We immediately hit it off. Since then we have prayed together in Norman era churches and drank wine with friends as we watched a California sunset. Just last week he and his wife Sammy joined …

Book Reviews,

Dirty Glory

After 15-years of seeing God work in amazing ways, Pete Greig has written Dirty Glory: Go Where Your Best Prayers Take You to share those stories. It’s the story of prayer and Pete’s amazing ride as the “accidental” founder of 24-7 Prayer.

Most of all, it’s the story of God’s engagement in our world. This is where Pete shines as an author (and as a person). He can tell amazing stories, but you never sense it’s about self-promotion the way other preacher/teacher types sometimes come across. For Pete, it’s genuinely about what God is doing in the world.

For this …

Book Reviews, Junkyard Management, Random Thoughts,

Journey of Hope

What is hope? The meaning of hope has been on my mind lately, so I’ve decided to think more on the topic in 2015. It seems both healthy and timely.

We live in an era when millions of good things are happening, yet we grow weary with despair. We worry about our broken political system, the rise of extremism, the violence in our schools, the pervasiveness of greed in our culture, the wealth disparity, high taxes, ISIS, the Byzantine health care system, immigration reform, Putin/Russian aggression, measles outbreaks, and out of control social media.

It’s endless what we can find …

Junkyard Management,

Primal Thankfulness

Late one night in a 24-7 Prayer Room in Guildford, England, my friend Pete Greig experienced a reawakening of hope. He wrote about the experience and it was so beautiful that I wanted to share it with you here. It might not seem like it, but Pete’s insight really describes a Junkyard Wisdom experience … primal, optimistic, realistic, and simple all at once. This is what he wrote:

I’m standing at night in this subterranean place of prayer, and perhaps it’s the coffee, or the music, or the Spirit, but the darkness doesn’t seem too strong. I’m praying for miracles …

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Prayer in Oxford

My previous post about Aldingbourne mentioned that Pete Greig picked us up at the airport. Pete is the accidental founder of 24-7 Prayer. I love the idea of being an accidental founder … it’s much more realistic than most founders are willing to admit!

Anyway, Pete met us at the airport and spent a couple of days with us as we explored Southern England. But he also took us to Oxford and introduced us to some of his 24-7 Prayer friends. They were having a gathering of UK leaders and it seemed the perfect way for us to hear …

Random Thoughts,

Holy Week Reflections – Silent Saturday

Today is traditionally called Holy Saturday, Joyous Saturday, Great Saturday or Black Saturday.

Jesus is dead, buried, gone. God is mute, as Pete Greig said in his book. There is silence. Confusion. Fear.

A strange sense of nothingness permeates those who were close to Jesus and put their hope in Him. The disciples must be asking, “What happened?” Nothing made sense. No answers to their countless questions. According to the Gospel of Matthew, even Judas had killed himself before they could interrogate him.

For those who followed Jesus, there was no activity in the temple, in the courts, or on …

Book Reviews,

God on Mute

Sometimes the most interesting relationships are formed by accident. And those serendipitous connections often lead to the most fascinating insights. Such is the case last week when D’Aun and I met Pete Greig.

It began with a lunch date with our friend Dave Gibbons. Before we met, Dave texted me and asked if it would be okay to invite Pete Greig and his friend Bob Jobes. Um, sure … sounds good.

Turns out that Pete and I had mutual friends (Byron and Lisa Borden, two of my classmates from Westmont). Also, Pete and his wife Sammie lived about two miles …