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  • Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals, Edited by Jamin Goggin and Kyle C. Strobel Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals, Edited by Jamin Goggin and Kyle C. Strobel
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    Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics

    A Guide for Evangelicals

    Edited by Jamin Goggin and Kyle C. Strobel

    • 2014 Best Book of Spirituality—Academic, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    Ever since Richard Foster wrote Celebration of Discipline in 1978, evangelicals have hungered for a deeper and morehistoric spirituality. Many have come to discover the wealth of spiritual insight available in the Desert Fathers, the medieval mystics, German Pietism ...

  • Christian Spiritual Formation: An Integrated Approach for Personal and Relational Wholeness, By Diane J. Chandler Christian Spiritual Formation: An Integrated Approach for Personal and Relational Wholeness, By Diane J. Chandler
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    Christian Spiritual Formation

    An Integrated Approach for Personal and Relational Wholeness

    by Diane J. Chandler

    This comprehensive theory and practice of Christian spiritual formation weaves together biblical and theological foundations with interdisciplinary scholarship, real-world examples, personal vignettes, and practical tools to assist readers in becoming whole persons in relationship with God and others.

  • Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Encountering God Through Attentive Writing, By Helen Cepero Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Encountering God Through Attentive Writing, By Helen Cepero
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    Journaling as a Spiritual Practice

    Encountering God Through Attentive Writing

    by Helen Cepero

    Whether you are a longtime journal keeper or someone who has never kept a journal at all, this book will help you go below the surface of your life with God. It is not about the art of writing, but about how journaling can form us spiritually. Every chapter combines descriptive text, illustrations from journals and the author's own experience with journaling practices integrated along the way to ...

  • Life Together in Christ: Experiencing Transformation in Community, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Life Together in Christ

    Experiencing Transformation in Community

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton

    Best Book of Spiritual Formation, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    Have you joined a church or small group in hopes of experiencing real life change, only to be disappointed?

    Have you sat through inspiring sermons about what is possible when Christians gather together in mutually edifying relationships, only to recognize how cynical you have become after ...

  • Shades of Light: A Novel, By Sharon Garlough Brown
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    Shades of Light

    A Novel

    Shades of Light Series

    by Sharon Garlough Brown

    "I was desperate. . . . I couldn't turn off the dark thoughts, no matter how hard I tried or how much I prayed. And then I spent a whole weekend in bed, and the crying wouldn't stop, and I got really scared. I've had bouts with depression before—it's kind of a cloud I've learned to live with—but this time was different. I felt like I was going under, like I'd never feel hopeful ...

  • Shades of Light Study Guide, By Sharon Garlough Brown
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    Shades of Light Study Guide

    Shades of Light Series

    by Sharon Garlough Brown

    Sharon Garlough Brown's novel Shades of Light is an exploration of depression, anxiety, caregiving, and the healing journey. In particular, it offers windows into the power of art as a spiritual practice.This six-week study guide is an opportunity for you to reflect on how the experiences of the characters in the novel resonate with your own experience. Daily Scripture readings and reflection ...

    Number of Studies: 6

  • Praying the Scriptures: A Field Guide for Your Spiritual Journey, By Evan B. Howard
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    Praying the Scriptures

    A Field Guide for Your Spiritual Journey

    by Evan B. Howard

    Although Christians are lovers of the Bible, not all have learned and followed the venerable Christian custom of praying directly from Scripture. In this thoroughly readable and helpful book, Evan Howard shows Christians how to recover and reap the rewards of this vital practice.

    Praying the Scriptures features down-to-earth guidance on praying the Lord's Prayer and the Psalms, on ...

  • An Extra Mile Study Guide, By Sharon Garlough Brown
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    An Extra Mile Study Guide

    Sensible Shoes Series

    by Sharon Garlough Brown

    • 2019 Christianity Today's Book of the Year - Fiction

    What next steps is God calling you to take?

    Join the characters of An Extra Mile, the final book in the Sensible Shoes series, as they journey through the seasons of Lent and Easter. In this eight-week study guide you'll dive deeper into key spiritual practices from the book, using daily ...

    Number of Studies: 8

  • Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality, By David G. Benner
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    Surrender to Love

    Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality

    The Spiritual Journey

    by David G. Benner
    Foreword by M. Basil Pennington

    Surrender to the Only Perfectly Trustworthy Love

    In our self-reliant era, most of us recoil from the concept of surrendering to a power or authority outside ourselves. But surrender need not be seen as threatening, especially when the One to whom we surrender is the epitome of goodness and love.

    God doesn't want his people to respond to him out of fear or obligation. ...

  • Making Room in Advent: 25 Devotions for a Season of Wonder, By Bette Dickinson
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    Making Room in Advent

    25 Devotions for a Season of Wonder

    by Bette Dickinson

    Preparation for the Christmas season can often feel busy and frantic, but it doesn't have to be this way.

    What if we stopped and listened to the movement and unfolding of God's plan around us? Making Room in Advent is an invitation away from the chaos and into the space where God is at work.

    The unfolding of God's plan often happens in unlikely spaces, both ...

    Number of Studies: 25