Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual GrowthHarper Collins, 2009 M03 17 - 256 pages Richard J. Foster’s Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth is hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality with millions of copies sold since its original publication in 1978. In Celebration of Discipline, Foster explores the "classic Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith to show how each of these areas contribute to a balanced spiritual life. Foster, the bestselling author of several books (Prayer and Streams of Living Water) and intrachurch movement founder of Renovaré, helps motivate Christians everywhere to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth. |
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... alive and growing, he will tell us. We can trust his teaching. If we are wandering off toward some wrong idea or unprofitable practice, he will guide us back. If we are willing to listen 10 I THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES.
... alive and growing, he will tell us. We can trust his teaching. If we are wandering off toward some wrong idea or unprofitable practice, he will guide us back. If we are willing to listen 10 I THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES.
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... listen to the Heavenly Monitor, we will receive the instruction we need. Our world is hungry for genuinely changed people. Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."* Let us be ...
... listen to the Heavenly Monitor, we will receive the instruction we need. Our world is hungry for genuinely changed people. Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."* Let us be ...
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... listening silences more than the Quakers, and the result has been a vital social impact far in excess of their numbers. William Penn notes, “True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and ...
... listening silences more than the Quakers, and the result has been a vital social impact far in excess of their numbers. William Penn notes, “True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and ...
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... listening to God's word, reflecting on God's works, rehearsing God's deeds, ruminating on God's law, and more. In each case there is stress upon changed behavior as a result of our encounter with the living God. Repentance and obedience ...
... listening to God's word, reflecting on God's works, rehearsing God's deeds, ruminating on God's law, and more. In each case there is stress upon changed behavior as a result of our encounter with the living God. Repentance and obedience ...
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... listen to God and helped the young boy Samuel know the word of the Lord (1 Sam. 3:1-18). Elijah spent many a day and night in the wilderness learning to discern the "still small voice of Yahweh" (1 Kings 19:9-18). Isaiah saw the Lord ...
... listen to God and helped the young boy Samuel know the word of the Lord (1 Sam. 3:1-18). Elijah spent many a day and night in the wilderness learning to discern the "still small voice of Yahweh" (1 Kings 19:9-18). Isaiah saw the Lord ...
Contents
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Prayer | 33 |
Fasting | 47 |
Study | 62 |
Simplicity | 79 |
Solitude | 96 |
Submission | 110 |
Confession | 143 |
Worship | 158 |
Guidance | 175 |
Celebration | 190 |
Comments in Celebration of Celebration of Discipline | 202 |
Notes | 211 |
Bibliography | 219 |
Service | 126 |
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Page 85 - And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?
Page 81 - No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Page 85 - Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Page 55 - My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
Page 68 - All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Page 125 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 61 - Jesus. •Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Page 116 - For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
Page 167 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
Page 9 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.