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Spiritual Disciplines Index: Confession
The Spiritual Disciplines Index is designed to give readers a picture of the with-God life in the Bible and the role of the Spiritual Disciplines in fostering that kind of life. Here are passages related to Confession.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: The With-God Life
These Scripture passages compiled by Dallas Willard for the
Life With God Bible
reveal a God who does not redeem people from far away. God is up close and personal, most especially in the person of Jesus—Immanuel, God with us.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Reading the Bible with the Mind and the Heart
“God not only originated the Bible through human authorship; he remains with it always. It is God’s book. No one owns it but God himself. It is the loving heart of God made visible and plain. And receiving this message of exquisite love is the great privilege of all who long for life with God.”
Renovaré Team
Featured July 26, 2024
(Original Mar 2005 )
Understanding the Means
This excerpt from the
Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible
unpacks how Spiritual Disciplines are the practical ways, the means, by which we grow in grace.
Renovaré Team
Featured August 13, 2021
(Original Jan 2005 )
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Worship
The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to worship.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Celebration
The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to celebration.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Guidance
The Spiritual Disciplines Index is designed to give readers a picture of the with-God life in the Bible and the role of the Spiritual Disciplines in fostering that kind of life. Here are passages related to Guidance, an interactive friendship with God that gives direction and purpose to daily life.
Renovaré Team
Featured August 27, 2021
(Original Dec 2024 )
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Solitude
What does the Bible have to say about the role of Spiritual Disciplines in nurturing our life with God and growth in grace? Here are Scripture passages related to the discipline of Solitude.
Renovaré Team
Featured July 21, 2023
(Original Dec 2024 )
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Simplicity
The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to simplicity and frugality.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
A Brief Overview of the With-God Life
From the
Life with God Bible
, this brief overview of biblical history helps us grasp how the divine drama took concrete forms in each age as people encountered God.
Renovaré Team
Featured November 3, 2023
(Original Dec 2024 )
A Panoramic View of God’s Purpose in History
In addition to understanding the Bible’s overarching theme in the with-God life and its transformation of the People of God, it is also helpful to view the Bible panoramically across the expanse of time.
Renovaré Team
Featured November 29, 2021
(Original Dec 2024 )
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Study
The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to study.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Submission
The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index is designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Catching the Vision
We are sharing some recently made-available resources from the
Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible
. This excerpt looks at how we can begin to wrap our minds around the richness of a with-God life.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Sacrifice
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. The Bible has many references to sacrifice—deliberately forsaking the security of satisfying our own needs with our resources in the faith and hope that God will sustain us
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Secrecy
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Scripture refers often to the idea of a holy secrecy, which is “Consciously refraining from having our good deeds and qualities generally known, which, in turn, rightly disciplines our longing for recognition.”
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Service
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Scripture speaks often on service—that is, loving, thoughtful, active promotion of the good of others & the causes of God in our world, through which we experience the many little deaths of going beyond ourselves.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Silence
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. These verses help us close off our souls from “sounds,” whether noise, music, or words, so that we may better still the inner chatter and clatter of our noisy hearts and be increasingly attentive to God.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Prayer
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Prayer is “an interactive conversation with God about what we and God are thinking and doing together.” Scripture is filled with these conversations; here is a good selection from Genesis to Revelation.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Meditation
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Prayerful rumination upon God, his Word, and his world fills these Scripture passages.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Fellowship
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. One of the sweetest gifts of the Spirit is fellowship. Scripture guides us through this life we live together.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Fasting
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. From the earliest days of Israel through Revelation, God has used fasting as a way to draw his people near.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
Spiritual Disciplines Index: Chastity
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Reflect upon the value of chastity with these verses from Scripture.
Renovaré Team
December 21, 2024
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