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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.
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Deep wells of living water dug by our ancestors have been filled with religious rubble and trash by American consumer spirituality. Like Isaac, digging again the wells of his father that the Philistines stopped up, Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe have cleaned out these deep sources of Christian nurture and formation for us. It turns out that there are wells all over the place. Use this book for your bucket. (Eugene H. Peterson, translator of THE MESSAGE)
This is a feast for the mind and the soul. This is the best and richest of Christian thinking and soul-making made accessible to everybody. It would be very hard to read this without having your heart grow. (John Ortberg, author and pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church)
Reading LONGING FOR GOD is like stepping into an unfamiliar room and finding a wonderful group of vital and brilliant brothers and sisters, reaching out to us from across the ages. We need to reach back and let them help us to know the fullness of life in the kingdom of God for who and where we are now. The spiritual impoverishment so widespread today among Christians is largely due to disconnection from "the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all." (Dallas Willard, author of THE DIVINE CONSPIRACY)
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This is a feast for the mind and the soul. This is the best and richest of Christian thinking and soul-making made accessible to everybody. It would be very hard to read this without having your heart grow. (John Ortberg, author and pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church)
Reading LONGING FOR GOD is like stepping into an unfamiliar room and finding a wonderful group of vital and brilliant brothers and sisters, reaching out to us from across the ages. We need to reach back and let them help us to know the fullness of life in the kingdom of God for who and where we are now. The spiritual impoverishment so widespread today among Christians is largely due to disconnection from "the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all." (Dallas Willard, author of THE DIVINE CONSPIRACY)
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- PublisherIvp Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 083083527X
- ISBN 13 9780830835270
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages455
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