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.

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Featured July 21, 2023 (Original Dec 2024 )

To Be Human Is To Pray

From his book How to Pray, Pete Greig helps us find ways and places to “speak the soul’s native language” of prayer.

Pete Greig

Featured July 14, 2023 (Original Oct 2019 )

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Is Praying Difficult?

Father Louf teaches how easy and natural prayer can be when he answers the question, “Is Praying Difficult?”

André Louf

Featured July 14, 2023 (Original Jan 2000 )

Transformed through Writing

Luci Shaw offers some advice from her book Life Path. Writing as a spiritual discipline can open channels that transform us, heal us, and bring us a few steps closer to God.

Luci Shaw

Featured July 14, 2023 (Original Jan 1991 )

Understanding Celebration

Richard Foster shares how celebration prevents the spiritual disciplines from deteriorating into soul-killing legalisms and saves us from taking ourselves too seriously.

Richard J. Foster

Featured June 30, 2023 (Original Oct 2014 )

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Live Life to the Full

Dallas Willard helps us understand the synergy between God’s transforming grace and our active cooperation: “You have never seen people more active than those who have been set on fire by the grace of God.”

Dallas Willard

Featured June 29, 2023 (Original Apr 2001 )

Helping Children Notice God

Lacy Finn Borgo offers practical steps adults can take to help children notice God’s presence and to draw them deeper into the goodness, beauty, and truth of the with-God life.

Lacy Finn Borgo

Featured June 28, 2023 (Original Jul 2017 )

We Never Outgrow Asking

Adoration or contemplation may seem nobler than asking God for something. But Richard Foster kindly insists that petition isn’t a lower form of prayer—it’s our staple diet.

Richard J. Foster

Featured June 23, 2023 (Original Jul 1992 )

Turning Your Thoughts into Prayers

“What do we pray? Whatever piece of God’s will we understand.” Jan Johnson shows how praying without ceasing need not be complicated.

Jan Johnson

Featured June 23, 2023 (Original Dec 2024 )

Lean Toward Love

Françios Fénelon explains how staying engaged in the Divine conversation, even when we don’t feel like it, forms stability in our relationship with God.

François Fénelon