A Spiritual Formation Workbook: Small-Group Resources for Nuturing Christian Growth |
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This beginning workbook for Spiritual Formation Groups features guidelines for starting a group, study plans for the first nine sessions, and a questionnairethat helps map the way ahead. Based upon six major dimensions of the spiritual life found in the life of Christ and Christian tradition: The Contemplative Tradition - The Holiness Tradition - The Charismatic Tradition - The Social Justice Tradition - The Evangelical Tradition - and The Incarnational Tradition, this workbook program provides all the necessary ingredients to start and maintain a Spiritual Formation Group. Successfully used by thousands of Spiritual Formation Group participants, 'A Spiritual Formation Workbook' has been completely revised to correlate with Richard J. Foster's 'Streams of Living Water.' Its new and updated exercises and teachings offer fresh perspectives on Christian faith and practice. Christian in perspective and ecumenical in breadth, RENOVARE (from the Latin, meaning 'to renew') is an effort committed to the renewal of the Church. Founded by bestselling writer Richard
A Spiritual Formation Workbook: Small-Group Resources for Nuturing Christian Growth
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Bread for the Journey: A Day Book of Wisdom and Faith |
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Provides 365 interlocking meditations that consider the joys of living in conversation with God and guide readers on a path of personal discovery that includes refelections on love, kindness, suffering, and religious faith
Bread for the Journey: A Day Book of Wisdom and Faith
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John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers Hymns and Sermons |
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Presents a dynamic compilation of prayers, hymns, sermons, and other writings from two renowned spiritual reformers and leaders of the Methodist revival in eighteenth-century England and America. Original. 30,000 first printing.
John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers Hymns and Sermons
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John of the Cross: Selections from the Dark Night and Other Writings |
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Presents excerpts from the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic's most famous work, The Dark Night of the Soul, about the struggle of the soul to find God and the role of darkness in the spiritual journey, accompanied by some of his other mystical writings. Original. 30,000 first printing.
John of the Cross: Selections from the Dark Night and Other Writings
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Original Self: Living With Paradox and Originality |
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Spiritual pioneer Moore, the bestselling author of 'Care of the Soul', guides readers back to their God-given personalities with the 50 meditations found in this collection. Woodcut illustrations.
Original Self: Living With Paradox and Originality
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Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God |
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This beautiful 20th anniversary edition of the classic Celebration of Discipline (one million copies sold) will motivate a new generation of seekers to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth. Celebration of Discipline Has Shown a Generation of Christians the way to an enriched spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deep understanding of God. With a new introduction, this timeless guide by Richard J. Foster shares his original insights on the inward disciplines of prayer and meditation, the outward discipline of simplicity, and the corporate discipline of celebration. With a wealth of examples he illustrates how these disciplines can be integrated into our daily practice -- and how they can help us toward inner transformation. Through meditation, fasting, study, solitude, submission, service, confession, worship, and guidance, we can shed our superficial habits and 'bring the abundance of God into our lives'.
Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
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Sometimes Enough Is Enough |
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Discusses how people can integrate prayer, harmony, and meditation in busy schedules in order to lead a more balanced, spiritual lifestyle.
Sometimes Enough Is Enough
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The Best Spiritual Writing 2002 |
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Hailed as 'a significant addition to the spiritual writing of our time,' '(Publishers Weekly),' this inspiring series brings together profound and lyrical writing about art, intimacy, prayer, love, meditation, and faith from some of the world's most distinguished writers. This provocative volume includes: Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison's elegy of love for 'The Dead of September 11; ' Bill McKibben's 'The Muslim Gandhi,' the moving story of the Afghan liberator Abdul Ghaffar Khan, one of the greatest nonviolent leaders of the twentieth century; 'Prayer,' a poem by the Nobel Prize-winner Czeslaw Milosz; Barry Lopez on the role of the modern naturalist as an emissary for nature; from 'The New Yorker,' Philip Levine's poem 'Gospel'; and Harvey Cox on a Christian appreciation of the Torah.
The Best Spiritual Writing 2002
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The Cloud of Unknowing |
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Presents a modern rendering of a fourteenth-century classic work of Christian mysticism, written by an anonymous English monk, which describes a soul's spiritual reunion with God and introduces a method of contemplation designed to overcome that which separates God from humankind. Original. 30,000 first printing.
The Cloud of Unknowing
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Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years |
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In the fourth volume of the acclaimed 'Journals of Thomas Merton', the Trappist monk emerges as the political and social activist and maverick mystic that the world has come to love and chronicles his growing concern for social issues.
Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years
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