Shaped by the Word How does our engagement with Scripture form us?

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The Human Body and Spiritual Growth Probably the least understood aspect of progress in Christlikeness is the role of the body in the spiritual life. Dallas Willard illuminates the connection.

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Improving Our Conscious Contact with God The Simple Wisdom of AA’s Eleventh Step Trevor Hudson, a nonalcoholic, has found great help in AA's Twelve Steps. Here he unpacks the Eleventh Step: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God...…

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Only By Prayer and Faith In thinking of how to ask for our daily bread, may we be inspired anew by George Müller and his orphanage in Bristol, England. Never asking a single person for help, George Müller put his trust and…

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Understanding the Means This excerpt from the Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible unpacks how Spiritual Disciplines are the practical ways, the means, by which we grow in grace.

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Do Not Be Anxious about Your Life The birds are our schoolmasters and the lilies our theologians, says Martin Luther. What would it be like to put away our anxieties and live in simple trust of the Lord's provision as they do?

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The Jogging Monk and the Exegesis of the Heart James Bryan Smith tells the story of how he came to read Scripture by "listening to the text, reflecting on it, asking not merely what it means, but what it is asking of me, what it is asking me to…

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Spiritual Classics Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines Selected excerpts drawn from the heritage of nearly 2,000 years of Christian writing. Based on the spiritual disciplines, each reading ends with Scripture, guided reflective questions, exercises, and…

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Catching Our Breath Chris Hall invites us to find unhurried spaces where we can "discern the quiet, insistent voice of God calling us into his wonderful, breathtaking mystery." Come and refresh your soul.

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Understanding Meditation Prayer is the interactive relationship we have with God about what we and God are working on together. Christian meditation is the listening side of this interactive relationship.

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Sabbath is the Climax of Living excerpt from Keeping the Sabbath Wholly "Sabbath is more than running away," Marva Dawn explains in Keeping the Sabbath Wholly. Habits for Sabbath connect us to our Source and give energy and meaning to life.

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Tim Mackie + Carla Harding — Shaped By the Word (Bonus Ep.) In this bonus episode we share a conversation from a Renovaré webinar called Shaped by the Word. Host Carolyn Arends speaks with Tim Mackie and Carla Harding about how Scripture functions in the…