The Practice of Prayer: A Four Week Exploration
Four evenings exploring how prayer shapes a life with God and how we can grow into the unhurried rhythms of grace with Jesus.
Date
5 Aug
-
26 Aug
2026
Location
Christ Church Lake Forest A201
Start time
6:30 pm
Cost
Standard:
$
79
Early Bird:
$
Student:
$
Speakers
Dr. Rusty Reno
Overview
You know you should pray. You're just not sure you know how.
If that lands a little too close to home, you're in good company. Most of us carry a quiet guilt about prayer — we believe it matters, we mean to do it, and yet the practice keeps slipping through our fingers. We're not even sure we'd know what we were doing if we sat down to try.
Here's the good news: prayer is the keystone that unlocks intimacy with God. It's your invitation to bring your unsolvable problems to Him, and your complete access to His mercy, grace, wisdom, and power — at every moment, in every place. It's hard to imagine anything more worth learning. A satisfying andinvigorating prayer life isn't reserved for the spiritually advanced. It can be learned. It can be yours.
That's exactly why we've created The Practice of Prayer: A Four-Week Exploration, running Tuesday evenings, August 5 to 29.
This won't be a lecture course where you take notes and go home unchanged. It'll be eminently practical — less like a classroom, more like a group exploration where we actually pray together. You'll be invited into a prayer method that opens the door to real intimacy with God, and you'll spend meaningful time practicing it in the room, not just hearing about it. Forty minutes of direct instruction, twenty minutes of interactive engagement, and a community of fellow travelers who are, like you, simply learning to live by the unhurried rhythms of grace.
You'll be led by Harold Smith, Brad Coleman, Jamie Morrison, and Glenn Wishnew — and by the end of four weeks, our hope is that you'll walk away with something you may have been missing for a long time: real peace and joy in God, and a prayer life that actually feels alive.
A few things to know: This class is in-person only, and spots are capped at 70 people. They're already filling up. If some part of you has been waiting for the right moment to finally learn to pray, this is it.
Reserve your spot today.
Register Here:
Speakers
We are excited to learn from the following thought leaders:
Harold Smith
Interim President of Lakelight Institute
Former President and CEO, Harold B. Smith lead a dynamic global media ministry envisioned in 1956 by world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham that serves the church through digital and print publications, as well as practical and accessible web resources that together reach more than 2.5 million people every month. Joining the Christianity Today magazine staff in 1984 as special projects editor, Harold quickly found himself working his way through both the editorial and publishing sides of the ministry before becoming the President and Chief Executive Officer in March 2007. Before joining Christ Church, Harold was a long-time member of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, where his roles have included chairing the Council of Elders and teaching adult Sunday school. Harold has been married to his best friend Judy for 37 years. Harold is a founding board member for Lakelight Insitute.
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