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  • Invitation to Retreat: The Gift and Necessity of Time Away with God, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Invitation to Retreat

    The Gift and Necessity of Time Away with God

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton

    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.

  • Making Spiritual Progress: Building Your Life with Faith, Hope and Love, By Allen Ratta
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    Making Spiritual Progress

    Building Your Life with Faith, Hope and Love

    by Allen Ratta
    Foreword by Larry Osborne

    We often think of "spiritual growth" as a matter of behavior, but in reality spiritual growth is a matter of the heart. In Making Spiritual Progress Allen Ratta introduces a revolutionary system for monitoring your motivations—faith, hope and love, the virtues out of which spiritual growth grows.

  • Reading Your Life's Story: An Invitation to Spiritual Mentoring, By Keith R. Anderson
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    Reading Your Life's Story

    An Invitation to Spiritual Mentoring

    by Keith R. Anderson

    Keith R. Anderson unfolds a vision for mentoring that invites us to read our own lives as narrative as well as to learn how to enter the narrative of another life. These pages cover the scope of the mentoring relationship through various seasons, offering helpful and inspiring metaphors for mentoring. All are invited to enter the mentoring story.

  • Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals, Edited byJamin 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

    This new collection of essays edited by Kyle Strobel and Jamin Goggin offers an evangelical hermeneutic for reading the Christian spiritual classics. Addressing the why, what and how of reading these texts, these essays challenge us to find our own questions deepened by the church's long history of spiritual reflection.

  • Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards, By Kyle C. Strobel
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    Formed for the Glory of God

    Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards

    by Kyle C. Strobel

    Kyle Strobel mines the work of Jonathan Edwards in search of the Puritan minister?s personal vision for spiritual development. "In Edwards," Strobel writes, "we find a grasp of spiritual formation that tries to balance deep thought with deep passion . . . a life of love with the contemplation of divine things."

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

    Spiritual Freedom Beyond Our Appetites

    by Lynne M. Baab

    Lynne Baab explains an ancient Christian practice that extends beyond giving up food to any regular activity in our contemporary lives. You'll see how taking a break from eating--or driving, or checking e-mail, or watching television--opens us up to discover new things about ourselves and God and the world around us.

  • The Spiritual Art of Business: Connecting the Daily with the Divine, By Barry L. Rowan
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    The Spiritual Art of Business

    Connecting the Daily with the Divine

    by Barry L. Rowan

    How do we bring meaning to our work, instead of being defined by what we do? "Corporate mystic" Barry Rowan invites us to see our work as a chance to serve God by contributing to a better society. With forty short chapters, this book beckons us into a connection with God that will infuse our lives, our offices, and our world with meaning.

    Number of Studies: 40

  • Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Study of the Christian Life, By Simon  Chan
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    Spiritual Theology

    A Systematic Study of the Christian Life

    by Simon Chan

    Simon Chan surveys the little-explored landscape where systematic theology and godly praxis meet, and he highlights the connections between Christian doctrine and Christian living.

  • Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers, By Ryan Shaw
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    Spiritual Equipping for Mission

    Thriving as God's Message Bearers

    by Ryan Shaw
    Foreword by Tom Lin

    Spiritual formation and discipleship are at the core of effective and fruitful mission. Mission professional Ryan Shaw unpacks ten fundamental spiritual keys we need to practice to succeed and thrive spiritually in preparation of becoming God's message bearers in the world.

  • Spiritual Care: A Guide for Caregivers, By Judith Allen Shelly
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    Spiritual Care: A Guide for Caregivers

    by Judith Allen Shelly

    It is now widely known that the rapid advancement of modern medicine was achieved with little regard for the spiritual thresholds associated with illness and aging. In this book Judith Allen Shelly seeks to reverse this trend by familiarizing caregivers with the basics of soul care.