Spiritual Formation Articles

A Continuous Heart to Heart Conversation With God

How we see others affects how we pray for them. Frank Laubach shares his practice of using God as his glasses when interacting with others, seeing them as God sees them. To do this requires a continuous heart to heart conversation with God that holds others before him and prays God’s will for them.

Frank Laubach

May 2, 2018

How to Intercede Like Jesus

Jan Johnson’s expands on insight she gained from Oswald Chambers: “What we must avoid in intercession is praying for someone to be simply ‘patched up.’ We must pray that person through into contact with the very life of God.”

Jan Johnson

April 27, 2018

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

April 25, 2018

Turning Your Thoughts into Prayers

“When we run out of things to say to God, we can bring up whatever or whomever is in front of us.” Jan Johnson shows how praying without ceasing need not be complicated.

Jan Johnson

April 20, 2018

Like Calling a Friend and Never Hanging Up

What if praying without ceasing is less like an unending military drill and much more like “calling a friend and never hanging up”? Nate Foster joins us to consider this approach when we commit our ways to drawing deeper into prayer. Whether fun or mundane, the conversation is always worthwhile.

Nathan Foster

April 18, 2018

Experiments in Prayer

Can we apply the scientific method to … prayer? Agnes Sanford says “Yes!” Giving us four simple steps to follow Agnes assures us that we can learn to adjust our prayer practices to better “plug into” God’s amazing power and presence to heal, protect, provide, and console.

Agnes Sanford

April 13, 2018

Understanding Prayer

In April 2018, we’re looking together at the discipline of prayer. With whom better to start, then, than Richard Foster, whose book Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home has blessed so many over the years? Join us in exploring a discipline that God uses to welcome, embrace, and change us.

Richard J. Foster

April 11, 2018

Forty Years of Celebration of Discipline: An Interview with Richard Foster

Richard Foster chats with Paul Anderson of George Fox University about the 40th anniversary of Celebration of Discipline, how that first book led to many others, why Renovaré came into being, the ways being a Quaker shaped his interdenominational outreach, and what the future holds.

Paul Anderson & Richard J. Foster

April 6, 2018

Life without Lack

We are very glad to be able to share a short excerpt from the new collection of Dallas Willard’s thoughts on Psalm 23, Life without Lack. In this excerpt, he encourages us to get our thinking caps on when we begin to contemplate the nature of God and reveals the most important part of who we are.

Dallas Willard

April 5, 2018

The Lord's Prayer as a Transformative Pattern

Paul Anderson joins us to share some ideas for the importance of regular daily prayer for spiritual transformation and offers some practices for modeling a morning prayer after the Lord’s Prayer.

Paul Anderson

April 4, 2018

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