Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered

Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered

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  • Author: James C. Wilhoit
  • Publisher: Baker Academic
  • ISBN: 1493435167
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

Most books on spiritual formation focus on the individual. But spiritual formation is at the heart of the church's whole purpose for existence. It must be a central task for the church to carry out Christ's mission in the world. This book offers an introduction to spiritual formation set squarely in the local church. The first edition has been well received and widely used as a textbook. The second edition has been updated throughout, incorporates findings from positive psychology, and reflects an Augustinian formation perspective. Foreword by Dallas Willard.


Teaching for Spiritual Formation

Teaching for Spiritual Formation

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  • Author: Kyle R. Hughes
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1725281236
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

In Teaching for Spiritual Formation, church historian and experienced Christian educator Kyle R. Hughes advances a fresh vision of Christian teaching and learning by drawing upon the riches of the Christian tradition, synthesizing the wisdom of the early church fathers with contemporary efforts to cultivate a distinctively Christian approach to education. Of interest to a wide range of Christian educators, this book examines how the writings of five significant church fathers can illuminate our understanding of the vocation of teachers, the nature of students, the purpose of curriculum, decisions about pedagogy, and how spiritual formation works. Besides reimagining these aspects of Christian education, Hughes also offers habits and practices that can help bring this vision of Christian teaching and learning to life, challenging Christian educators to sharpen their approach to the integration of faith and learning in practical and accessible ways.


Life with God

Life with God

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  • Author: Richard J. Foster
  • Publisher: Zondervan
  • ISBN: 0061671746
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

Too often, our study of the Bible focuses on searching for specific information or some formula that will solve our pressing needs of the moment. But what if we approached the Bible differently, and instead of transforming the text to meet our needs, allowed it to transform us? That's exactly the idea behind Life with God, Richard J. Foster's much-anticipated book on the Bible. Foster, bestselling author of Celebration of Discipline and general editor of The RenovarÉ Spiritual Formation Bible, claims that God has superintended the writing of Scripture so that it serves as the most reliable guide for Christian spiritual formation. According to Foster, the Bible is all about human life "with God." As we read Scripture, we should consider how exactly God is with us in each story and allow ourselves to be spiritually transformed. By opening our whole selves—mind, body, spirit, thoughts, behavior, and will—to the page before us, we begin to grasp all the Bible has to teach about prayer, obedience, compassion, virtue, and grace and apply it to our everyday lives to achieve a deeper relationship with God. With a wealth of examples and simple yet crucial insights, Life with God is an indispensable guide to approaching the Bible through the lens of Christian spiritual formation, revealing that reading the Bible for interior transformation is a far different endeavor than reading the Bible for historical knowledge, literary appreciation, or religious instruction.


The Christian Educator's Handbook on Spiritual Formation

The Christian Educator's Handbook on Spiritual Formation

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  • Author: Kenneth O. Gangel
  • Publisher: Baker Books
  • ISBN: 1441215336
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 266

Provides the help Christians need to understand and pursue spiritual growth.


The Spirit of the Disciplines - Reissue

The Spirit of the Disciplines - Reissue

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  • Author: Dallas Willard
  • Publisher: Zondervan
  • ISBN: 0060694424
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

How to Live as Jesus Lived Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention.


Sacramental Life

Sacramental Life

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  • Author: David A. deSilva
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 0830835180
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

As David deSilva has experienced the ancient wisdom of the Book of Common Prayer, he's been formed spiritually in deep and lasting ways. In these pages, he offers you a brand new way to use the Book of Common Prayer, exploring how Christians can be spiritually formed by the sacraments of baptism, Eucharist, marriage and last rites.


Invitation to Retreat

Invitation to Retreat

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  • Author: Ruth Haley Barton
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 0830873937
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 165

When we choose retreat we make a generous investment in our friendship with Christ. Seasoned spiritual director Ruth Haley Barton gently and eloquently leads us into an exploration of retreat as a key practice that opens us to God, guiding us through seven invitations to retreat. You will discover how to say yes to God's winsome invitation to greater freedom and surrender.


Spiritual Formation

Spiritual Formation

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  • Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0061995509
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

“Henri Nouwen was one of the great spiritual masters of the modern age. His beloved writings have helped millions understand that no matter where we are, God can meet us there. Read this brand-new compilation of his writings and conferences, and let Henri Nouwen accompany you—with his trademark wisdom, acuity, common sense, erudition and, most of all, compassion—and help you encounter God more fully in your daily life.” — James Martin, SJ, author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything Led by the writing of beloved, bestselling author Henri Nouwen (With Open Hands, Reaching Out, The Wounded Healer, Making All Things New), the authors of Spiritual Direction, return with the second work in this popular spirituality series on how to live out the five classical stages of spiritual development.


On Christian Teaching

On Christian Teaching

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  • Author: David I. Smith
  • Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • ISBN: 1467450642
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 235

Christian teachers have long been thinking about what content to teach, but little scholarship has been devoted to how faith forms the actual process of teaching. Is there a way to go beyond Christian perspectives on the subject matter and think about the teaching itself as Christian? In this book David I. Smith shows how faith can and should play a critical role in shaping pedagogy and the learning experience.


Spiritual Formation Is...

Spiritual Formation Is...

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  • Author: Rod Dempsey
  • Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 1462776760
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 215

Rod Dempsey and Dave Earley draw on years of experience as pastors, church planters, professors, and transformed believers to equip readers to grow in their spiritual walk with Christ. Spiritual Formation Is… challenges believers to grow upward, inward, and outward in their spiritual formation by loving God, loving one another, and loving our neighbors. Written in a down-to-earth, approachable style that invites readers to come as they are, Spiritual Formation Is… introduces the principles, philosophy, and practice of sanctification.