Spiritual Formation Articles

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

November 10, 2019

The Simplest and Most Effective Way of Mind Renewal in Christ

Dallas Willard brings us back to the basics, asserting that “the simplest and most effective way of mind renewal in Christ is memorization of Scripture: large passages of it as well as individual verses.”

Dallas Willard

November 7, 2019

Getting the Big Picture

In this classic article from Christianity Today, Richard Foster pleas for Christians to gain a comprehensive worldview drawn from Scripture to combat Biblical myopia.

Richard J. Foster

November 6, 2019

Reading the Bible with the Mind and the Heart

We must consider how we can ourselves come to the Bible and also how we can present it to people in a way that does not destroy the soul, but inducts it into the eternal kind of life.

Renovaré Team

November 4, 2019

The Renewable Energy of Fruitful Work

Can work actually increase our energy in the midst of our busyness? Author Kai Nilsen considers the ways that fruitful work can and will in this excerpt from his book, Renew Your Life: Discovering the Wellspring of God’s Energy.

Kai Nilsen

October 30, 2019

Unlimited Liability: A Movement Towards Generosity

“Generosity is both our deepest desire and an act of defiance against our cultural landscape that pulses with messages of scarcity.” Lacy Borgo shares personally and profoundly in this social justice-themed essay.

Lacy Finn Borgo

October 28, 2019

The Church’s Impact upon Society

William Temple (1881-1944), an outstanding 20th-century Protestant leader, offers his keen insight into social structures and the Church’s role in shaping them.

William Temple

October 23, 2019

Christ in Community

“Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.” Bonhoeffer speaks with his signature clarity and authority in this excerpt from Life Together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

October 21, 2019

Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace

In the Foreword to his book, The Inward Journey, Dr. Howard Thurman writes of the choice before those who seek “‘to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly’ with Him.” Will the words we speak be instruments of violence or instruments of God’s peace?

Howard Thurman

October 20, 2019

Defining the Social Justice Tradition: The Compassionate Life

Social justice is where love meets the road. From Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster opens up three great themes of the Social Justice Tradition that are wonderfully summed up in the Hebrew words mishpat, hesed, and shalom.