If you have not become familiar with Mindy Caliguire's site on Soul Care, it is worth a look. Soul care is a more focused area of spiritual formation that examines the heath of our inner life. She explains: So what makes a soul healthy? Quite simply,...
A couple of months ago, IVP published The Kingdom Life: A Practical Theology of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation (2010). This book provides a summary of 10 main concepts behind spiritual formation, with each chapter written by one of the leading thinkers in this field, including...
The 2010 March edition of Christianity Today has some interesting articles on the relationship of doctrine to spiritual formation. In The Mind Under Grace, Darren Marks urges us to base our theology solidly on Scripture rather than the experiences of faithful people in the past,...
Jim Cymbala, pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York, believes prayer is the barometer of the church's success. It's not how many people who show up to services that count, but how many come to pray. In this 50min video, Cymbala presents his vision...
Discipleship is not intended to be a private or individual affair. It is meant to be done together...
What are the important things for new believers to learn? In the video clip below, Dallas Willard suggests what spiritual disciplines to teach at the beginning of their journey to set the right direction. Best wishes for the Journey, Gavin....
If you are interested in discipling young people, this video gives an interesting overview of their world-view and provides a link to another website where you can get more resources. All the best for the Journey, Gavin ...
Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (April 2009), by Christian Smith and Melina Lundquist Denton maybe a book you will want to have a look at. This book will be followed up with Souls In Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives...
Henry Scougal (1650-1678) wrote a book entitled, The Life of God in the Soul of Man, and it was reading this book that brought about a deep conversion in George Whitefield. At the beginning, Scougal defines religion and those that practice it as follows: They know by...