Freedom from Needing My Own Way
LETTER BY BRIAN MORYKON
Can you believe Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline turns forty this year? Directly or indirectly, that book is why you’re reading this. It fed a hunger in many hearts and it sparked the birth of Renovaré.
To celebrate the anniversary, Nathan and Richard Foster are doing ten one-night events and two conferences, and our web content will focus on one discipline per month.
One thing must be said at the start of this celebration: Spiritual Disciplines are not the point. The point is to glorify and enjoy God. Disciplines earn nothing — we are saved and sustained by grace — but they do provide helpful ways to present our bodies as living sacrifices. And it’s on that alter where God transforms our hearts and minds.
We’ll begin with Submission, placing God’s will above our own. It’s a term with some baggage, so this week’s content helps unpack it.
Brian Morykon
Director of Communications
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episodeNathan Foster — Starting with Submission Celebration of Discipline turns forty this year and our website will focus on one discipline per month. Since yielding to God is the goal of all spiritual disciplines, it's fitting to start this journey with Submission. Nathan Foster tells how he learned the joy of not having his own way. -
articleUnderstanding Submission How does Jesus call us to follow him not only to a "cross death" but a "cross life"? How can we only be truly free when we are captives of the Lord? Richard Foster introduces us to the spiritual discipline of submission.
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articleSinking into the Will of God François Fénelon offers insight into what it means to truly surrender to God. He advises caution, lest we make submission an achievement, rather than a journey toward the peace of sinking into God's will.
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articleSpiritual Disciplines Index: Submission The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index is designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible.
