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Graduate Balancing

How to Balance the Intellectual Life with the Spiritual Life

Sometimes the intellectual life and spiritual life are needlessly pitted against one another. In this classic commencement speech, Dallas Willard commends us to love God with all our mind.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
June 8, 2018
African American Woman Studying Bible

Understanding Study

“Study is the process whereby our minds take on an order conforming to the order of whatever we concentrate upon.” Richard Foster succinctly introduces this month’s discipline of study.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
June 6, 2018
05 25 Fast Unto God

Fasting Unto God

When we fast, Arthur Wallis asks us to reflect upon for whom we fast—is it done unto God or unto ourselves? When our gaze is singly fixed upon God in this discipline, Wallis encourages us that, “we [will be] preserved from ever permitting the blessings to mean more to us than the Blesser.”
Arthur Wallis
Arthur Wallis
May 30, 2018
2018 05 25 Writing Notebook

Fasting: A Practical Guide

From her helpful Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, Adele Calhoun provides a succinct and practical overview of fasting.
Adele Calhoun
Adele Calhoun
May 25, 2018
Empty Plate With Hands - Fasting

The Purpose of Fasting

In this excerpt from Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster helps us see that “[f]asting must forever center on God. It must be God-initiated and God-ordained.”
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
May 23, 2018
Fasting Unplug

Holy Hunger

Chris Hall encourages us to unplug in the most literal sense and fast in small ways from media. How might your mind and spirit be transformed by abstaining from the distractions of the digital age?
Chris Hall
Chris Hall
May 18, 2018
Fasting from Criticalness

A Fasting on Criticalness

Through fasting from criticalness, Catherine Marshall discovered the negative thinking that blocked creativity, love, goodwill, and mercy.
Catherine Marshall
Catherine Marshall
May 16, 2018
08 15 Keyhole For The Key

The Key to the Keys to the Kingdom

In this excerpt from The Great Omission, Dallas Willard shares the importance of the Sabbath and practical suggestions, including fasting, on how to incorporate the Sabbath into the rhythms of life.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
May 11, 2018
2018 05 09 Table Fasting

Understanding Fasting

“Fasting is the voluntary denial of an otherwise normal function for the sake of intense spiritual activity.” Richard Foster explains the what and why of this month’s focus discipline.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
May 9, 2018
05 04 Listening Prayer

Listening Prayer

Jan Johnson joins us with some words about listening prayer. How can waiting and resting in the Lord lead to utter delight? Jan shares practical methods to dig deeply into this practice of prayer as well as some of the transformative results she’s experienced.
Jan Johnson
Jan Johnson
May 4, 2018