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Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
Winner of a 2006 Logos Book Award! Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God? Do you desire a greater intimacy with God? Do you wonder how you might truly live your life as God created you to live it? Spiritual disciplines are activities that open us to God's transforming love and the changes that only God can bring about in our lives. Picking up on...more
Hardcover, 191 pages
Published
February 10th 2006
by InterVarsity Press
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This book came to me just at the right time. It has really helped me order my life for rest and balance, as it has helped me examine my own rhythms and how they might best dovetail with important spiritual disciplines like self-examination while going for a solitary run in the woods, or sitting in silence in the early morning, and putting boundaries on when you answer cell phones or check email, or what-have-you. It's about living a life that is nourishing, not just filled with additives or bulk...more
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My full review is here: http://mimi-cyberlibrarian.blogspot.c...
Sacred Rhythms is Ruth Barton’s personal look at the traditional spiritual disciplines. Barton is a pastor, author, and seminar leader. She is a former pastor at Willow Creek Community Church and now runs the Transforming Center in Wheaton Illinois.
The traditional spiritual disciplines as outlined by Richard Foster in his book Celebration of Discipline are:
· Inward Disciplines of Meditation, Prayer, Fasting, and Study
· Outward D...more
Sacred Rhythms is Ruth Barton’s personal look at the traditional spiritual disciplines. Barton is a pastor, author, and seminar leader. She is a former pastor at Willow Creek Community Church and now runs the Transforming Center in Wheaton Illinois.
The traditional spiritual disciplines as outlined by Richard Foster in his book Celebration of Discipline are:
· Inward Disciplines of Meditation, Prayer, Fasting, and Study
· Outward D...more
My standing critique of books on spiritual disciplines is that they are too individualized in their expression and too anthropocentric. That is, they give you a set of practices which you can apply in the privacy of your own home as a means to deepen your spiritual life (whatever that means). What often is missing is the communal practices of the church (worship, word, sacrament) and a sense that the practices commended are less about bringing you into a more satisfying religious experience and...more
Dec 27, 2012
Johanna
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3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Johanna by:
Textbook for Mrs. Hinkel's Class
The main concept of this book is "arranging our lives for spiritual transformation" through developing rhythms that set us up for God to make changes in our lives. Barton talks about the following spiritual rhythms: silence and solitude, lectio divina, prayer, honoring the body, self-examination, discernment, and Sabbath.
Overall, it was pretty good. The chapters were almost always too long and wordy. It's arguably too driven by desiring to have an "experience" with God, but the backbone of her m...more
Overall, it was pretty good. The chapters were almost always too long and wordy. It's arguably too driven by desiring to have an "experience" with God, but the backbone of her m...more
This book is a good introduction to the modern reader to some ancient practices. It has given me some good ideas to connect better with God. It is, however, written in the evangelical language that I have heard so much of, which makes it difficult for the words to pierce through. Still, good stuff, with good anecdotes that inspire.
This was an excellent, practical book. Barton does a great job of pushing her readers, but also isn't idealistic about anything, providing plenty of examples of how the principles in the book work out in her own life. At times, it gets a bit kitschy, but that might just be my theological background talking; it's hard to tell.
This book has been life transforming for me. I have read through/studied it at least 4 times. It will always be a book i go back to. I just re-read the Chapter on solitude this morning, January 1, 2008. I highly reccomend it if you are looking for a way to live life in conguence with the values you say you have.
I read this book the way you shouldn't--straight through, without stopping and working through the discipline in each chapter. I think I would have gotten more out of it the other way, but I do feel like the disciplines mentioned here are worth further exploration. I didn't particularly like the author's explanations of Scripture to fit in with the themes explored, but the stories she shares from her own life, especially how she uses the different practices, were authentic and helpful.
I wonder how many times I cried when I first read this book. This book was refreshing for my soul and made me think of spiritual disciplines in a new way. This was my first introduction to Ruth Haley Barton and now I can't get enough
Sacred Rhythms is a book I sipped like a warm tasty cup of tea on a cold afternoon. I read this book over almost a year. And I will re-read it. Barton hit me where I live right now: I want to build my life around loving God and being loved by Him. For me, every chapter boosted me farther down that path. Some things I had already begun to implement like lectio divina and intentional Sabbath rest. Others are new to me. I especially savored the chapter on listening to our bodies. I tend to push my...more
Not a bad book. I enjoyed some chapters more than others - I think my favorite was the Sabbath chapter. I do think we're in a culture of go-go-go, and it was good to be reminded that it's important to take time for ourselves. To take a nap, take a walk, do what you want to do on your Sabbath. No errands, no busyness - just time for yourself and your family.
My main problem with her was that she applied a lot of her experience to everything, as though each person's life will be similar to hers. S...more
My main problem with her was that she applied a lot of her experience to everything, as though each person's life will be similar to hers. S...more
Loved this book, but I love Ruth Haley Barton :) Think modern day Celebration of Disciplines. I'm very convicted about the Sabbath or lack there of in my life after reading this book.
A nice, basic beginner's guide to Spiritual Discipline. Barton writes with a clearly American cultural bias, but this is applicable to other over-indulged nations, as well.
A gift from the hubby. This will inspire my New Years resolution to truly come up with a "Rule of Life" ... this book is a great framework and very practical on the subject of living in a holy rhythm that frames the bustle of the day
I cannot over recommend this book! While Foster's _Celebration of Discipline_ is a complete treatise on the practices of Spiritual Formation, Barton's book is like an honest, gentle friend walking beside you and pointing out that the truest thing about you (you knew it all along!) is your desire for God. This is the first "Christian" book I've read in a long, long time that didn't distract me with its voice. Instead, what lingers is more space and more desire to have more of the Kingdom of Heave...more
i initially loved this book--but when i began to read it with a more critical eye, I realized the author used absolutely No scripture to back up what she was saying, that a lot of the spiritual practices she recommends are unbiblical, and that essentially this book is about mysticism. so i wouldnt recommend it.
Great book! Helps make the spiritual disciplines easy to understand and implement, and clearly explains the importance of a "rule of life."
It's a very feel good book, which I am not a fan of. There was very little scripture throughout the whole of the book.
Very approachable, real life reflections on building rhythms into your life for spiritual formation.
This was good, it didn't blow me away. I did really enjoy her discussion of Lectio Divina though.
Unbiblical, mystical, Scripture taken out of context... I do NOT recommend this book.
Oct 20, 2009
Stacey
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Micaelanne mentioned this. Stacey H. might have it (notes to self)
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This book was pretty awesome!
I found this book really liberating and refreshing then some other books on spiritual disciplines that I've read. Ruth is truthful and encouraging and invites the reader to enjoy God in fresh ways. The book is full of great searching questions to help you on your personal journey and a great group discussion section if you want to read the book with others. I finished it feeling inspired to explore new ways to connect with God and order my life so that it is moving in the direction my heart trul...more
Jul 29, 2012
Heather
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Excellent!
I already miss this book. I want to run away with it somewhere where I can plot and plan my life around spiritual transformation. So many times while reading it, I felt my soul soar and sigh, as I encountered refreshing truths.
Oh, to have a community of believers willing to arrange their lives for transformation and walk through it together. I could see this being a powerful group experience, too.
Not a quick, easy read but a challenging, encouraging, life-changing one.
Oh, to have a community of believers willing to arrange their lives for transformation and walk through it together. I could see this being a powerful group experience, too.
Not a quick, easy read but a challenging, encouraging, life-changing one.
A great, practical, and challenging book on how to develop life giving spiritual rhythms in your life. A must read for those who want to have rich and meaningful times with God, but struggle to find them.
Nov 25, 2008
Todd
is currently reading it
Will start this book in a week or so!
3.5 stars out of 5
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Ruth Haley Barton is a writer, spiritual director, and retreat leader. She is co-founder of The Transforming Center, a community of Christian men and women who shape and care for the souls of leaders. She has served on the staff at several different churches, including Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL, where she co-authored a spiritual formation curriculum enti...more
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Ruth Haley Barton is a writer, spiritual director, and retreat leader. She is co-founder of The Transforming Center, a community of Christian men and women who shape and care for the souls of leaders. She has served on the staff at several different churches, including Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL, where she co-authored a spiritual formation curriculum enti...more
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“The purpose of journeying together in spiritual friendship and spiritual community (whether there are just two of you or whether you are in a small group) is to listen to one another's desire for God, to nurture that desire in each other and to support one another in seeking a way of life that is consistent with that desire. ”
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“Discernment is first of all a habit, a way of seeing that eventually permeates our whole life. It is the journey from spiritual blindness (not seeing God anywhere or seeing him only where we expect to see him) to spiritual sight (finding God everywhere, especially where we least expect it).”
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