2010 *Christianity Today* Book Award winner!2010 Golden Canon *Leadership* Book Award winner!Think of the moment you last experienced God.Do you know him that closely in this moment?Truly experiencing the love of God gives us a taste of his goodness and his love for us, but often those moments are fleeting....
2010 *Christianity Today* Book Award winner!2010 Golden Canon *Leadership* Book Award winner!Think of the moment you last experienced God.Do you know him that closely in this moment?Truly experiencing the love of God gives us a taste of his goodness and his love for us, but often those moments are fleeting. We get distracted by life. Our awareness and understanding fade while our longing to experience him that way again increases.In these pages you can begin to fill that longing by developing your capacity to receive and respond to God's love. Spiritual formation is the process through which one's inner self is opened to the work of the Holy Spirit, who forms us into the image of the Son. Here Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe, both experienced leaders in spiritual formation, introduce you to people from the past who have known God deeply. Each person helps you to grasp one of the seven primary paths to intimacy with God that have been developed throughout Christian history. Chapters are divided into sections, each segment surrounding a key figure and concluding with a reflection and prayer.This rich resource can guide you into the same deep intimacy with God, opening you to the Spirit's work of transformation. A Renovar Resource.
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2010 *Christianity Today* Book Award winner!2010 Golden Canon *Leadership* Book Award winner!Think of the moment you last experienced God.Do you know him that closely in this moment?Truly experiencing the love of God gives us a taste of his goodness and his love for us, but often those moments are fleeting....
2010 *Christianity Today* Book Award winner!2010 Golden Canon *Leadership* Book Award winner!Think of the moment you last experienced God.Do you know him that closely in this moment?Truly experiencing the love of God gives us a taste of his goodness and his love for us, but often those moments are fleeting. We get distracted by life. Our awareness and understanding fade while our longing to experience him that way again increases.In these pages you can begin to fill that longing by developing your capacity to receive and respond to God's love. Spiritual formation is the process through which one's inner self is opened to the work of the Holy Spirit, who forms us into the image of the Son. Here Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe, both experienced leaders in spiritual formation, introduce you to people from the past who have known God deeply. Each person helps you to grasp one of the seven primary paths to intimacy with God that have been developed throughout Christian history. Chapters are divided into sections, each segment surrounding a key figure and concluding with a reflection and prayer.This rich resource can guide you into the same deep intimacy with God, opening you to the Spirit's work of transformation. A Renovar Resource.
Longing For God$44.99
Koorong code445487
ISBN9780830846153
Pages366
PublisherFormatio
Publication date12 March 2016
Dimensions27 x 152 x 228mm
Weight0.508kg
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This excellent book by Foster and Beebe ought to be read by every Christian who longs for God. To satisfy this longing, the Christian church has a long and rich tradition to help us. Looking at how the church's saints have pursued their devotion to God, Foster and Beebe identify seven primary paths of devotion to God. These are: (1) the right ordering of our love for God, (2) the spiritual life as journey, (3) the recovering of knowledge of God lost in the fall, (4) intimacy with Jesus Christ, (5) the right ordering of our experiences of God, (6) action and contemplation, and (7) divine ascent. Under every path, Foster and Beebe draw on some representative core texts on spirituality to help the reader on their spiritual journey. Reading a summary of each of these texts, the reader gets exposed to great Christians like Origen of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clairvaux, Blaise Pascal, Gregory the Great, John of the Cross and so on - a great feast for both the soul and mind! Reading this book, one cannot help but be challenged, inspired and helped to journey close to the heart of God. Highly recommended!
