St. Augustine, Thomas Merton, Fredrick Buechner, Evelyn Underhill, A.W. Tozer, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas More, Martin Luther King, Jr., Amy Carmichael, Simone Weil, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hildegard of Bingen, John Milton, Dorothy Day, Leo Tolstoy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and more. . .
From nearly two thousand years of Christian writing comes Spiritual Classcs,fifty-two selections complete with a profile of each author, guided meditations for group and individual use, and reflections containing questions and exercises. Editors Richard Foster and Emilie Griffith offer their expertise by selecting inspirational writings and including their own commentary and recommendations for further guided reading and exploration.
]]>Lent is a time of year when Christians of all backgrounds open themselves to a deeper relationship with God through prayer, fasting, spiritual reading, and other disciplines. Small Surrenders provides a perfect daily guide to this holy season, with forty-seven meditations for Lenten weekdays, Sundays and Easter Sunday. Emilie Griffin uses brief, provocative quotations from ancient and modern sources as starting-points for her warm, conversational meditations, which focus on deepening the spiritual life.
Readers will gain new insights on various aspects of Lent - the "small surrenders" we make throughout the season - including the attitudes we should bring to Lent, our relationship to Jesus Christ during these days, the disciplines we may adopt, and how to maintain commitment over such an extended time. Major sources for reflection are Jesus' time in the wilderness, as well as the final week of Lent when we observe his passion, death, and resurrection. Griffin also provides a brief history of Lent and considers the value of Lenten practice in contemporary life.
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If you have struggled to learn what it means to live your life with God or if you have been looking for a fresh way to read the Bible, The Life with God Bible will help you rediscover Scripture as living text, rich with insights into how to live your life more intimately with the Creator.
Spearheaded by bestselling authors Richard J. Foster (Celebration of Discipline) and Dallas Willard (The Divine Conspiracy), along-side the foremost names in Christian spirituality and biblical scholarship, The Life with God Bible introduces the concept of the "with-God life," a model for seeing the whole of Scripture as the unfolding story of God's plan for our loving relationship with God. This theme weaves throughout the essays and study notes, while the concrete practices and Spiritual Disciplines, such as prayer, worship, fasting, and celebration, will help you discover a deeper relationship with God and transform you into the likeness and character of Jesus.
Combining the depth of a study Bible with the warmth of a devotional Bible, The Life with God Bible makes Scripture come alive as you learn to read the text in a fresh way, not as something to be mastered, but as a story to enter and a lifestyle to pursue.
If you have struggled to learn what it means to live your life with God or if you have been looking for a fresh way to read the Bible, The Life with God Bible will help you rediscover Scripture as living text, rich with insights into how to live your life more intimately with the Creator.
Features include:
<ul> <li>Life with God Study Notes—Insightful introductions for each book of the Bible and thousands of notes highlight main themes for the "with-God life"</li> <li>Spiritual Exercises—Challenging and relevant exercises to deepen your encounter with God while reading the Bible</li> <li>Topical Index—A glossary of Bible references designed to help you with further study on spiritual disciplines that foster life with God</li> <li>Study Helps—Fifteen progressive essays on living the "with-God life," over sixty profiles of key biblical characters, and sixteen pages of maps</li> <li>Concordance—An index to help you locate familiar words, phrases, and verses in the Bible</li> <li>Combines the Depth of a Study Bible with the Warmth of a Devotional Bible</li> </ul>]]>