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A Brief Overview of the With-God Life From the Life with God Bible, this brief overview of biblical history helps us grasp how the divine drama took concrete forms in each age as people encountered God.

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Sabbath Is a Way of Life In this excerpt from The Great Omission, Dallas Willard unpacks the meaning of Sabbath and explores how Sabbath practices open us to God's gracious provision and governance.

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Selfish Care, Self-Care, and Soul Care — What’s the Difference? Tending to Ourselves and Our Souls Part of the discipline of submission is recognizing our limitations and caring for our souls. Nathan Foster says soul care is when "we simply place ourselves in a position for God to care for us,…

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Moment By Moment Submitting to the Will of God An overview of Frank Laubach’s Letters by a Modern Mystic Frank Laubach tried submitting every moment to God. As Dallas Willard tells here, this inner life of utter submission empowered Laubach to bring the love of Christ and the gift of literacy to the…

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You Are Important, and We Love You An Ode to Cake How did cake become the nearly universal dessert of celebration and consolation? How do people speak love through baking and sharing cake? What was Francis of Assisi's favorite cake? Is there really…

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Advent: Learning to Wait In a time of year that too often rushes headlong toward Christmas Day, Richella Parham reminds us about the courage we need to wait upon the Lord—a courage we live out in the Advent season as we both…

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The Contemporary Battlefronts From ​“The Lamb’s War” We finish Richard Foster's consideration of what it means to be in the Lamb's Army with a look at some current battlefronts in the realm of "principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of…

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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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On Grace, Transformation, and Holding Our Tongues In this short excerpt from an interview, Dallas Willard explains how "saved by grace" can be misunderstood to mean "no participation or change necessary." And, on the other hand, spiritual…

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Are All Doctrinal Arguments About Doctrine? Chris Hall offers helpful words of caution to Christians, and particularly to pastors and teachers: Guard against a polemical spirit.

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Spiritual Disciplines Index: Service We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Scripture speaks often on service—that is, loving, thoughtful, active promotion of the good of others & the…

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I Have Given the Keys of My House to Love In this excerpt from Devotional Classics, Catherine writes of a transcendent unity with God even in the midst of very human distractions.