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  • Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way, By Stephen A. Macchia
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    Crafting a Rule of Life

    An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way

    by Stephen A. Macchia
    Foreword by Mark Buchanan

    Your personal rule of life is a holistic description of the Spirit-empowered rhythms and relationships that create, redeem, sustain and transform the life God invites you to humbly fulfill for Christ's glory.

    All of us have an unwritten personal rule of life. We wake at certain times, get ready for our days in particular ways, use our free time for assorted purposes and practice ...

  • 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.

  • Christian Spirituality: Five Views of Sanctification, Edited by Donald Alexander
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    Christian Spirituality

    Five Views of Sanctification

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Contributions by Gerhard O. Forde, Sinclair B. Ferguson, Laurence W. Wood, Russell P. Spittler, and E. Glenn Hinson
    Edited by Donald Alexander

    How can we grow closer to God? Is there a secret to spiritual life? Do we need a second blessing? Is sanctification God's work or ours? Is it instantaneous or is it a process?

    The nature of Christian spirituality has been widely debated throughout the history of the church. The doctrine of sanctification was one of the main fissures separating Luther from the Catholic Church. ...

  • A Guidebook to Prayer: 24 Ways to Walk with God, By MaryKate Morse
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    A Guidebook to Prayer

    24 Ways to Walk with God

    by MaryKate Morse
    Foreword by Joshua Choonmin Kang

    Why is prayer so hard?Many of us have asked that question. We want to pray. We intend to pray. But, as spiritual director and professor MaryKate Morse notes, "We don't pray as consistently or as meaningfully as we might like."And yet prayer offersus such spiritual riches. Prayer

    • draws us to experience love and to be love
    • increases our faith
    • expands our vision of God
    • helps ...
  • Perhaps: Reclaiming the Space Between Doubt and Dogmatism, By Joshua M. McNall
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    Perhaps

    Reclaiming the Space Between Doubt and Dogmatism

    by Joshua McNall

    The Christian life requires faith. That means that believers are sometimes faced with uncertainty. But is all uncertainty bad?

    Theologian Joshua McNall encourages readers to reclaim the little word "perhaps" as a sacred space between the warring extremes of unchecked doubt and zealous dogmatism. To say "perhaps" on certain contested topics means exercising a hopeful ...

  • The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago, By Arthur Paul Boers
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    The Way Is Made by Walking

    A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago

    by Arthur Paul Boers
    Foreword by Eugene H Peterson

    The Word Guild Canadian Christian Writing Awards finalist

    Pilgrimage is a spiritual discipline not many consider. Aren't the destinations far? Don't they involve a lot of time and walking? Just a few years ago, Arthur Paul Boers wasn't thinking about pilgrimage either. But he began to sense a deep call from God to walk the five-hundred-mile pilgrimage route known as Camino ...

  • Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship  Direction, By David G. Benner
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    Sacred Companions

    The Gift of Spiritual Friendship Direction

    by David G. Benner
    Foreword by Larry Crabb

    We need companions on our spiritual journey.The modern world has taught us to value autonomy and individualism. Our churches often see spirituality as personal and private. But we cannot go long in our Christian pilgrimage before realizing that isolation leads to spiritual barrenness. We soon discover that our souls long for accompaniment, intimacy and spiritual friendship. As a result, many Christians ...

  • Living the Lord's Prayer: The Way of the Disciple, By Albert Haase OFM
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    Living the Lord's Prayer

    The Way of the Disciple

    by Albert Haase OFM
    Foreword by Gerald L. Sittser

    Contained in the Lord's Prayer is a complete picture of our life with God. Covering topics ranging from our view of God to our most intimate human relationship to how we treat the world around us and the people in it, the Lord's Prayer is a trustworthy guide for spiritual formation and a compact handbook for holiness.In Living the Lord's Prayer, Father Albert Haase follows the lines of ...

  • The Garden of the Soul: Cultivating Your Spiritual Life, By Keri Wyatt Kent
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    The Garden of the Soul

    Cultivating Your Spiritual Life

    by Keri Wyatt Kent

    Work. Parenting. Chores. These words can fence in your life. The demands on your time and energy too often leave you feeling depleted. How do you foster spiritual growth amid the realities of life today? Confession, solitude, service, studying theWord, praying, simplifying. Keri Wyatt Kent introduces these disciplines--the practices that foster a flourishing, fruitful garden within your soul. In ...

  • Fasting: Spiritual Freedom Beyond Our Appetites, By Lynne M. Baab
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    Fasting

    Spiritual Freedom Beyond Our Appetites

    by Lynne M. Baab

    "You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God." Matthew 5:6 The MessageWe live in hungry times. Ours is a consumer culture, predisposed to quickly fill the cravings of body and mind. The idea of fasting--the voluntary denial of something for a specific time, for a spiritual purpose--sets us immediately on edge. But Lynne Baab makes the case that anyone can fast.Fasting ...