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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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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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Defining The Incarnational Tradition: The Sacramental Life God likes matter and uses it "to make present and visible the invisible realm of the spirit". In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster invites us to live sacramentally in all…

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Five Misconceptions that Hinder Prayer Richard Foster corrects some common misunderstandings that get in the way of a conversational friendship with the Lord.

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Encountering Christ in All of Scripture A Word-Centered Life, evangelical in the very best sense of that word, is one deeply grounded in Scripture. Chris Webb shares how we encounter Christ in the Bible.

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Confession: A Practical Guide "Jesus taught that the damage done through sin was not the last word on life. Sin could be confessed. Sin could be forgiven. And sinful people could be set free." From _Spiritual Disciplines…

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Understanding Confession Confession is the spiritual discipline that allows us to enter into the grace and mercy of God in such a way that we experience forgiveness and healing for the sins and sorrows of the past.

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A Spiritual Formation Workbook Small Group Resources for Nurturing Christian Growth A beginning workbook for spiritual formation groups that provides guidelines for starting a group, study plans for the first nine sessions, and a questionnaire that maps the way ahead.

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Becoming Like Jesus: Compassionate Life Chris Webb examines what it means to live out the Compassionate Life "in the ever widening concentric circles of community in which we live."

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The Furnace of Transformation Excerpt from Way of the Heart In his classic book The Way of the Heart, Henri Nouwen calls the discipline of solitude “the furnace of transformation” because it is there that we meet Christ, without whom we have no power to…

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The Christian’s Authority to Forgive Sin "The followers of Jesus Christ have been given the authority to receive the confession of sin and to forgive it in his name." Richard Foster unpacks the privilege and power of confession in this …

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To Will One Thing Søren Kierkegaard's prayers and the accompanying exercises from Devotional Classics help us learn to seek God's agenda ahead of our own.