Good Christian fiction should show the spiritual growth of either the hero or heroine, with the
level of spiritual growth depending on their individual starting points.
The principle of necessary repetition and renewal, and not a law of stability, is the
law of the spiritual growth and continuity of our life.
We hope that through Christian counseling for women, you'll find hope and guidance as well as compassion for yourself as you walk on your own personal
journey of spiritual growth.
These weekends are suitable to all those drawn to learning more about the
path of spiritual growth, and the revelation of their true nature.
This is one world, God's world throughout, whose law - abiding regularities, whose amazing artistries, whose evolution of ever higher structures, whose creation of personality, whose endless
possibilities of spiritual growth and social progress indicate that it is a spiritual system.
However, it is unlikely that we could bridge the cultural gap and choose as compass someone who was an ascetic and a vegetarian and who promoted celibacy even in marriage for the
sake of spiritual growth.
«It was a
time of spiritual growth for me,» she says, «that I had never allowed to develop before because I was a scientist... I think I matured in many, many ways.»
The article highlights Truths that would require us to abandon the shallow waters of religion and enter the deeper
waters of spiritual growth.
The fundamental issue with the generational disconnect here is that millenials see church members as completely willing to call out the sins of others, but lacking in humility, compassion and the outward
appearance of spiritual growth themselves.
By providing a suggested series of steps, AA provides a continuing pro
gram of spiritual growth which is important, especially after the first enthusiasm of belonging has dimmed.
But at the same time that I was learning to engage with God as a hungry, growing young Christian, the realization dawned on me like a dead weight sinking in my stomach that no
amount of spiritual growth seemed to have any effect on my sexual preference... There was nothing, it felt, chosen or intentional about my being gay.
The process
of spiritual growth involves individual struggle, doubt and one's confrontation with God — tensions that are effectively short - circuited by thought control.
So
much of spiritual growth, I'm finding, is adding tools to the toolbox, and connecting with God in ways that are right for each season of life.
To understand the psychodynamics of recovery and particularly the
role of spiritual growth in this process, the concept of surrender, as explored by the late Harry M. Tiebout, 8.
Google, the frighteningly dominant search engine, has launched a
school of spiritual growth as an arm of its in - house university.
Whereas Girard's thought finds theology at its conclusion rather than at the outset, Kierkegaard understands the crowd to be an assemblage of individuals who are hiding from God and attempting to evade the difficult
process of spiritual growth.
5) The drama of human rejection of the
possibility of spiritual growth is revealed most clearly in the crucifixion of Christ, as Kierkegaard suggests in this passage: