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  • How to Inherit the Earth: Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior, By Scott A. Bessenecker
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    How to Inherit the Earth

    Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior

    by Scott A. Bessenecker

    Ambition isn't bad; it just does bad things. In a culture that too often prizes leadership uncritically and unreflectively, a faith that calls us to take up crosses, lay down lives and otherwise submit ourselves to something outside ourselves simply sounds like a bad idea. Nevertheless, this is the faith that we find Jesus talking about. Scott Bessenecker has learned from new friar communities, ...

  • Daring to Draw Near: People in Prayer, By John White
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    Daring to Draw Near

    People in Prayer

    IVP Classics

    by John White

    Prayers are windows--windows on eternity.

    Through the prayers in the Bible we look into the profoundest issues of life and death, and the deepest longings of our own hearts. And we learn about the God to whom we pray, the one who wants to talk with us, the one who takes the initiative in our relationship with him.

    In this classic book on prayer, John White helps us listen to Abraham ...

  • Journal Keeping: Writing for Spiritual Growth, By Luann Budd
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    Journal Keeping

    Writing for Spiritual Growth

    by Luann Budd

    Would you like to journal, but you're not sure how to start? Do you love to journal, but need some fresh ideas? Here's a book to help you discover (or recover) the power of writing as a spiritual discipline. In these pages you'll find intriguing and encouraging insights on topics like "ordinary things," "discovery journaling," "drawing from another's well" and "dialogue journaling with Scriptures." ...

  • Invitations from God: Accepting God's Offer to Rest, Weep, Forgive, Wait, Remember and More, By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
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    Invitations from God

    Accepting God's Offer to Rest, Weep, Forgive, Wait, Remember and More

    Transforming Resources

    by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

    Some invitations we desperately want: "Will you marry me?" "Would you consider a promotion?" Other invitations we never want to receive but must respond to all the same: "What treatment do you want for your tumor?" Invitations pound away at the coastlines of the soul with a transforming force. God is also sending invitations. Sometimes they seem less compelling than anything on my to-do list. ...

  • 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.

  • Journey with Jesus: Discovering the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, By Larry Warner
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    Journey with Jesus

    Discovering the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius

    by Larry Warner

    In Journey with Jesus, spiritual director Larry Warner guides us through the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, similar to the way he's been leading people through them in person. Here's what he's observed: "The Spiritual Exercises helped people reconnect with Jesus and with themselves in life-giving ways. It was powerful." Ignatius wanted to help everyone, no matter what age or stage ...

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

    Five Views of Sanctification

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

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

    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. ...

  • Green Leaves for Later Years: The Spiritual Path of Wisdom, By Emilie Griffin
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    Green Leaves for Later Years

    The Spiritual Path of Wisdom

    by Emilie Griffin

    "What wisdom do I bring to the later years? Nothing more than the wisdom of dwelling in the present moment. No more than the courage of God's promises. Nothing more than the courage to walk through sorrow. No more than the unlimited future of God's love." So, Emilie Griffin, author, teacher, spiritual director, writes in her seventy-fifth year. In these pages she reflects on the beauty and the ...

  • In the Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life, By Marva J. Dawn
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    In the Beginning, GOD

    Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life

    by Marva J. Dawn

    With the grace and insight for which she is known, Marva Dawn shows how the opening pages of the book of Genesis rivet our attention on God, calling us to worship and to praise. The repeated words, phrases, and actions themselves beckon us into a rhythm of worship which touches our very souls. By focusing on God, we become different people--not by trying to perfect a technique or follow a set of ...

  • Child of Divorce, Child of God: A Journey of Hope and Healing, By Kristine Steakley
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    Child of Divorce, Child of God

    A Journey of Hope and Healing

    by Kristine Steakley

    Children of divorce carry wounds into adulthood. Divorce affects our relationships to other people, our fears and longings, our faith, and our spirituality. We may have difficulties with anger, guilt, commitment or forgiveness. But our identity need not be marked only by our parents' divorce. God can enter into our woundedness and bring transformation and hope. Kristine Steakley chronicles the ...