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| Resources on Encountering God |
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Celebration of Discipline
By Richard Foster
In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the classic "Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found.
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The Life You've Always Wanted
By John Ortberg
The heart of Christianity is transformation—a relationship with God that impacts not just our "spiritual lives," but every aspect of living. John Ortberg calls you back to the dynamic heartbeat of Christianity—God's power to bring change and growth—and reveals both the how and why of transformation. |
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Spiritual Disciplines Handbook
By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
Fasting. Solitude. Contemplative prayer. Lectio divina.
Have you heard about these practices and wanted to try them? Have you wandered from one practice to another not sure quite what to do? Are you overwhelmed by all the to-dos of your spiritual life? We have good desires—for a more intimate prayer life, perhaps, or deeper insight from God's Word—but we don't know how to get there. So we give up our pursuit, tired from wandering aimlessly, and end up feeling guilty and more distant from God instead of closer. Instead of just giving information about spiritual disciplines, this Handbook is full of practical, accessible guidance that helps you actually do them. Mothers, fathers, plumbers, nurses, students—we're all on a journey. And spiritual disciplines are for all of us who desire to know Christ deeply and be like him. Here is direction for our desire, leading us to the ultimate destination: more of Christ himself.
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Sacred Rhythms
By Ruth Haley Barton
Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God? Do you desire a greater intimacy with Him? 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 the monastic tradition of creating a "rule of life" that allows for regular space for the practice of the spiritual disciplines, Sacred Rhythms takes you more deeply into understanding seven key disciplines along with practical ideas for weaving them into everyday life. Each chapter includes exercises to help you begin the practices—individually and in a group context. The final chapter puts it all together in a way that will help you arrange your life for spiritual transformation.
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The One True Thing
By Howard Baker
Deep within our hearts, we crave communion with God. We desire to make Him the sole subject of our affection. But everyday life has a way of fragmenting our pursuit and realigning our priorities. Other desires begin to compete within our schedule until we can barely even pencil in God on Sundays. Howard Baker believes that every yearning at its core is a desire for God and that He is calling out to us through our discontent. The One True Thing presents a path to reclaiming our lives and time for Him, guiding us to seek, choose, and ultimately value our relationship with Him above all else.
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| Resources on the Bible |
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How to Study Your Bible
By Kay Arthur
Join the nearly half-million adults and teens who are mining God's Word using the step-by-step methods outlined in this outstanding resource! How to Study Your Bible helps you cultivate the skills of observation, interpretation, and application—and encourages you to become an active participant in God's Word! In 15 easy-to-understand chapters, Kay Arthur presents a systematic approach that includes key words, context studies, comparisons and contrasts, topical studies, word meanings, and more. Interacting with God's Word helps you absorb more of its messages and gives God greater access to engrave His truth on your heart and mind. |
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How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
By Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart
Understanding the Bible isn't for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It's meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your 21st-century life. In clear, simple language, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth helps you accurately understand the different parts of the Bible—their meaning for ancient audiences and their implications for you today—so you can uncover the inexhaustible worth that is in God's Word. |
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Eat This Book:
A Conversation In The Art of Spiritual Reading
By Eugene H. Peterson
A provocative challenge to read the Scriptures on their own terms—as God's revelation—and to live them as we read. Countering the trend toward subjective personal interpretation, Peterson suggests an alternative approach, offering fascinating insights on the nature of language, the ancient practice of lectio divina, and the role of translations, including The Message.
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Bible Study Methods
By Rick Warren
Want to become more like Christ but don't know where to begin? Rick Warren says the key to transformation is found in Scripture. This easy-to-understand guide offers 12 different Bible study methods to help you explore biblical truths, apply them to your life, and grow as a disciple. Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods will help you develop a customized, personal approach to exploring and studying the riches of God's Word. |
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Living by the Book
By Howard G. Hendricks and William D. Hendricks
How would you describe your personal Bible study? Mundane or motivational? Lackluster or lively? Redundant or reviving? Howard and Bill Hendricks offer a practical 3-step process that will help you master simple yet effective inductive methods of observation, interpretation, and application that will make all the difference in your time with God's Word! |
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Read, Think, Pray, Live
By Tony Jones
If you want to know Jesus and what He's all about, you've got to know how to do these four things—read, think, pray, live. It's how your faith can grow. Lectio divina, or sacred reading, is a time-tested method used by believers to experience God in a personal and real way. This book teaches you how to engage your faith. Learning from a teaching that has worked for hundreds of years, you'll find yourself challenged and encouraged to get to know God in brand new ways.
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| Resources on Prayer |
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Sacred Listening
By James L. Wakefield
Sacred Listening is an adaption of St. Ignatius' original month-long spiritual retreat into a guide that allows you to weave prayer and contemplation of Scripture into your daily schedule. As you pray, write in a journal, study Scripture, and share your experiences, you'll discover Christ in new ways and be transformed by the power of a time-honored tradition that continues to speak to us today. |
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Prayer: Finding The Heart’s True Home
By Richard Foster
Best-selling author Richard Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping you to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest. Foster shows how prayer can move you inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to minister to others. He leads you beyond questions to a deeper understanding and practice of prayer, bringing you closer to God, to yourself, and to your community.
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Andrew Murray On Prayer
By Andrew Murray
Combining six of Andrew Murray's most treasured works on prayer, this book will give you biblical guidelines for effective communication with God. Discover essential keys to developing a vibrant prayer life, including how to abide in Christ, be victorious in prayer, petition God courageously, intercede for others effectively, and receive clear direction from God. Through Murray's writings, you will find out how your devotions can be transformed so that you can realize the fullness of God's love, peace, and divine power operating in your daily walk. Lovingly explained, the principles presented here will permanently alter your prayer life.
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The Best of E.M. Bounds
By E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds' books on prayer have been classic works, stimulating and inspiring Christians of all ages to become prayer warriors. Both a forceful writer and very deep thinker, Bounds spent the last seventeen years of his life reading, writing, and praying. For many years, he rose before dawn and was indefatigable in his study of the Bible. If you'd like to become more familiar with Bounds' great thinking, this collection of 120 daily devotions offers inspiring insights without being overwhelming. While words, phrases, and sentence structure have been undated for readability and clarity, every effort has been made to preserve the integrity and intent of Bounds' original writings.
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The Utmost for His Highest
By Oswald Chambers
This edition of Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest combines the readability of the modern NKJV edition of the Bible, with the timeless wisdom of Chamber's bestselling classic devotional in readable, easily understood, up-to-date English. Featuring daily insights on everything from adversity and assurance, to worry and worship, My Utmost for His Highest will help you to apply biblical truths in today's modern world. Includes complete subject and Scripture indexes, along with 366 timeless, inspirational devotions, and a forward from Charles Stanley.
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Too Busy Not to Pray
By Bill Hybels
Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation. And then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems an impossible luxury. As a pastor, Bill Hybels knows hundreds of people with schedules like this. Yet in his own life he has made the hard discovery that prayer doesn't happen on the run. He decided he was too busy not to pray. Hybels' accessible introduction to prayer has already helped many Christians develop a rich and regular prayer life in the midst of life's busyness. Now, in this revised and expanded 10th anniversary edition, he includes new insights from his years of ministry and his own spiritual journey. He shows how to slow down to pray, listen to God, respond to what is heard, practice the presence of God, and overcome prayer barriers.
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Abba's Child
By Brennan Manning
Have you bought into the lie that you're worthy of God's love only when your life is going well? If so, when life begins to fall apart and embarrassing sins threaten to reveal your less-than-perfect identity, the inclination is to scramble to keep up a good front, to cower and hide until the mask of perfection can be slipped back into place. All this time, though, God is calling you to take your mask off and come openly to Him. God longs for you to know in the depths of your being that He loves you and accepts you as you are. In Abba's Child, you'll be encouraged to let go of the impostor lifestyle and freely accept your belovedness as a child of God your Father. In Him there is life, passion is rekindled, and your union with Him is His greatest pleasure.
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The Art of Listening Prayer
By Seth Barnes
A personal relationship with God. What does it really mean? If God loves His people, couldn't it be that He desires to speak one-on-one with us? If so, wouldn't our first priority be to learn how to hear from Him? Explore what it means to experience prayer that really is two-way. Using the Bible as a foundation, you can go way beyond theory and grow in the practice of listening prayer. This devotional will help you do it.
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| Resources on Community |
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Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
By John Ortberg
Since Christians often talk about community as one of their highest ideals it is shocking when they realize that, as Henri Nouwen insightfully noted, "Community is the place where the person you least want to live with always lives." Fortunately, John Ortberg shares our passion for community and is able to teach us how to live with and love one another. With the insight of a counselor and the heart of a pastor, Ortberg has written one of the best contemporary considerations of community. |
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Safe People
By Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
Do your "people connections" lift you up or drag you down? If you often make "wrong" choices in love, work, or friendships, you can learn to find people who are good for you! Cloud and Townsend identify traits of untrustworthy people, offer practical strategies for forming healthy associations, and reveal things about yourself that jeopardize relationships. |
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Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No
to Take Control of Your Life
By Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Boundaries impact all areas of our lives: Physical boundaries help us determine who may touch us, mental boundaries give us the freedom to have our own thoughts, emotional boundaries help us to deal with our own emotions and spiritual boundaries help us to distinguish God's will from our own. |
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The DNA of Relationships
By Garry Smalley
Have you discovered the building blocks of lasting bonds? Smalley discloses 17 core fears that can aggravate relationships—and the secrets to dealing with them; provides practical strategies for stopping unhealthy and damaging patterns; unfolds the road map to love; and helps you to understand that God made you for satisfying relationships. |
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Making Room for Life
By Randy Frazee
Dysfunctional families and disconnected, stressed-out lifestyles are the "norm" in today's congregations. Can the church serve as a meaningful Christian community in such an environment? Frazee says yes and offers biblical solutions. Learn how we as believers can radically reinvent our lives to include more time for deeper relationships with few people. |
| Resources on Fasting |
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Pursuit of God
By A.W. Tozer
In the muddle of day-to-day life, have you somehow forgotten that Christianity is a living, vibrant relationship with a personal God? In this classic bestseller and recipient of both the ECPA Gold and Platinum Book Awards, The Pursuit of God reminds and challenges you to renew your relationship with your loving God. In each of the 10 chapters, Tozer explains one aspect of hungering for God and ends with a prayer.
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A Hunger for God
By John Piper
Have Sunday worship services, small group meetings and a full slate of Christian activities failed to satisfy your hunger for God? If so, best-selling author and noted pastor John Piper has just the remedy: the ancient Christian practice of fasting and prayer. In this helpful guide Piper will explain the biblical foundations of fasting and provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate fasting into your life. Don't miss this opportunity to develop a deeper Hunger for God. |
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Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough
By John Piper
Most believers know about fasting, but few really understand the wonderful benefits that come when we fast with purpose and direction. Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough gives the why of fasting, rather than just the how. Towns avoids a glut of techniques and schedules; instead he provides a probing look at Isaiah 58, often called "the fasting passage," and introduces nine biblical fasts—each designed for a specific physical and spiritual outcome. Learn how fasting can strengthen your faith and draw you closer to God, helping you to be a true overcomer in Christ. |
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Celebration of Discipline
By Richard J. Foster
In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the classic "Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found.
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