‘How to Pray’ one of top searches on AOL
April 3, 2009
Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA Today
‘One of the best treatments of this subject to find its way onto Christian bookshelves’
April 3, 2009
Trevin Wax reviews Scot McKnight’s Fasting: The Ancient Practices
Amazon: Fasting: The Ancient Practices
‘Drop-Dead Easy Guide on How to Journal’
March 31, 2009
‘18 Tricks to Memorize More Scripture’
March 23, 2009
Demian Farnworth (HT: Abraham Piper, DesiringGod)
‘Getting Unplugged’ with a Technology Sabbath
March 9, 2009
‘Five Reasons Not to Give Up Something for Lent’
March 5, 2009
Mark Driscoll on the spiritual discipline of service
March 4, 2009
Free audio: Don Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (Unabridged)
March 2, 2009
Forty Days and Forty Nights
March 2, 2009
By Heather A. Goodman
As we move through the story of Christ and his body, we come to the forty-day season of Lent. It is a time of fasting and prayer to prepare for Easter, the most joyous and victorious day of the Christian year.
Lent represents the forty days Christ withdrew and fasted as he prepared for his earthly ministry. During this time, waiting for that point when Christ would be his weakest, Satan threw his full forces at Christ: you don’t have to do this, Satan said. There’s an easier way …
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The Good vs. The Best
February 6, 2009
I am not one who would often be accused of being a workaholic. Growing up with two workaholic parents instilled in me an appreciation for finding a balance in life between hard work and leisure.
Still, that doesn’t prevent me from occasionally running myself ragged, and the last two weeks have been a prime example. Here at Back to God Ministries, we’ve been getting ready for an important trade show that we attend every year. This has required me to put in a lot of long days, often working late into the night, to make sure that everything is in order for the show. I’m stressed out, tired, not sleeping well, not eating well, and overall just ready for the whole thing to be over.
In the midst of all this, last Sunday, my pastor taught a lesson on one of his favorite spiritual disciplines …
What New Year’s resolutions have you already blown?
January 21, 2009
Carlos Whittaker wants to know
‘Try writing prayers’
January 15, 2009
Mark Driscoll on chastity
January 15, 2009
Spiritual Disciplines: Worship
January 8, 2009
Worship is continuously living our lives individually and corporately as living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing. This connection between glory and worship is clear in places such as Romans 11:36–12:1 (NIV), which says, “To him be the glory forever! Amen. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship”
This is My Heart: Devotional Readings from John Calvin
January 8, 2009
