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  <title><![CDATA[The Spirit of the Disciplines - Reissue: Understanding How God Changes Lives]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;CENTER&gt;&lt;B&gt;How to Live as Jesus Lived&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/CENTER&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of &lt;I&gt;The Divine Conspiracy&lt;/I&gt; (&lt;I&gt;Christianity Today's&lt;/I&gt; 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. &lt;I&gt;The Spirit of the Disciplines&lt;/I&gt; is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention.&lt;/P&gt;</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dallas Willard]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So this was my June reading. Since I was REALLY WORKING hard at Kijabe Hospital, trying to relearn everything I used to know as a pediatrician and apply it to a totally Kenyan context it was a relief to have someone, my second night there, tell me I was invited to their book study. Since it occured ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67099560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Willard's in depth discussion of the role of body in the spiritual life and the need for discipline as part of the secret to grasping the &quot;easy yoke&quot; Christ spoke of was an important foundation for the actually rather brief discussion of each particular discipline. Bonus chapters, especial...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31427957">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Challenging. Heady. Willard is a philosopher, so you will find all the reason and logic/arguments behind 'why' questions. 'Why' should we do the spiritual disciplines. He offers a 'theology of the disciplines', etc. Willard also offers a lot of great thoughts on other topics such as poverty &amp; holine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52486135">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 17 09:39:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all, I am not writing this to argue with all the people that loved it, rather I am reviewing for someone who has not yet read it and want an idea of what they are getting themselves into. I appreciated what this book has to say: Instead of focusing on what Jesus and the Paul did &quot;in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40305184">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dallas is good as usual.  I think his chapter on money and poverty is the most insightful and biblical perspective I have ever read on the idea of money.  Good read.<br/><br/>Poignant Quotes:<br/><br/>“It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven.” – Soren ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11335778">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Willard is a smart fellow, a professor of philosophy at USC, and a uncommonly probing observer of Christianity. This book argues that whoever wants to get closer to God must attend to the disciplines practiced by Christ and the apostles (solitude, prayer, fasting, sacrificial giving, and others), an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50515461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slowly going through this book-  picking it up in my down time (which is less and less these days)...<br/><br/>So many of my friends have raved about this book.<br/><br/>I'm super excited to get further along in it.]]></body>
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    <review id="47384843">
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    <body><![CDATA[Theology of how God uses spiritual disciplines to mature us in our walks.  Very good chapter on Christianity and wealth.]]></body>
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    <review id="50425047">
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    <body><![CDATA[Seeing the disciplines as a yoke that makes the living of the spiritual life easy.]]></body>
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    <review id="29551339">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 30 09:07:40 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[    I have again read through much of this book that I read a number of years ago. The author does a wonderful job of showing how God has made our bodies and spirits dependent on each other as far as living out our spiritual lives. To ignore the fact that we need to discipline our bodies to help rei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29551339">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 08:34:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What's our part; what's God's part.  Profoundly helpful and practical.  Much that I want to put into practice.  I may just start the book over immediately.  So dense and rich.]]></body>
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    <review id="57490166">
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely helpful ]]></body>
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    <review id="44905161">
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good look at the importance of spiritual disciplines/practices in the Christian faith. At times he strays to the very academic level and there are a few chapters that could be edited out for length, but I definitely think this is a critical book for ministry and for individuals as well.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am learning to kick it spiritually old school...1st and 2nd century old school.  I nearly fell out of my chair when I realized Jesus assumed I would fast in the Sermon on the Mount.  I always read it &quot;If you get around to fasting&quot; rather than &quot;When you fast&quot; (Matthew 6:17).  Da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17569652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4568258">
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    <body><![CDATA[While I certainly believe that there was much good in this book and it deserved the renown that it got at the time, I believe there are much better books that are done on these sorts of topics.  Although it may have been a precursor to the aforementioned books, I believe that it was less focused.  O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4568258">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8050068">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[I would recomend this book to any Christian who feels that their spiritual life is empty.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting and informative book. I would recomend this book to any Christian who feels that their spiritual life is empty. It is very common for Christians to wonder why they feel like they are not living the &quot;good life&quot; that Jesus promised. This book shows a way out of yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8050068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5264180">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great interpretation on WHY the traditional disciplines are essential... the premise is basically laid out in the first chapter or two, the middle gets a little slow, but all in all a potentially life-changing book if you are up for the challenge of really practicing the disciplines as Jesus did.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book on why the &quot;easy yoke of Christ&quot; is practically hard for many of us to bear. Lots of philosophical discussion on how our humanity works in conjunction with our spiritual lives, and how redemption can be practically worked out.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent. Goes through the various spiritual disciplines, sets up a framework for seeing them--not legalistically, but as means of grace. Talks about how they can be done, how they can stimulate spiritual growth... <br/>Amazing book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book on &quot;spiritual discipline&quot; that is much more intellectual and thought provoking than say, another author formerly from Willow Creek. Not an easy read, but for those who enjoy mental gymnastics will surely enjoy this one. ]]></body>
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