Understanding Solitude
“Solitude empowers us to walk away from all human pretense and manipulation.” Richard Foster gives us a clear snapshot of this vital spiritual discipline.
Solitude: A Practical Guide
From Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, Adele Calhoun reminds us that solitude is making time to be alone with the One we love.
Open Spaces for Solitude
Margaret Campbell writes about carving out time and space for solitude so that we are free to be found by God.
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.
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.
Is Praying Difficult?
Father Louf teaches how easy and natural prayer can be when he answers the question, “Is Praying Difficult?”
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.
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.
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.”
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.