David Turner Blog

In my last post, I referenced a book, Dirty Glory by Pete Greig and said I would post a review. So here it is! Pete founded the 24/7 prayer movement and  Dirty glory  is a kind of sequel to Red Moon Rising which told the story of the start of 24/7. I haven't read Red Moon Rising yet, but as Pete says at the start of Dirty Glory, it can be read apart from Red Moon. The book has great insight and makes important points about prayer, what it is and how we do it but above all else I simply found this book inspiring. The best compliment I can pay to Pete is that every time I had read a bit (be it a chapter or simply a few pages), I felt inspired to pray afterwards. I also found myself remembering moments and experiences with God that I had forgotten. As I was reading one day, I remembered a time I went on a prayer walk and having such a sense of God's presence that it was like all a swell of energy in me that I had to do something with, so I ran, as fast as I could (I was not d...