Sentences with phrase «on spiritual formation»

He focused his research especially on the spiritual formation of couples and families.

Willard is well known to many Christians from his books on spiritual formation, including The Divine Conspiracy (which Christianity Today selected as Book of the Year in 1998), The Spirit of the Disciplines, Hearing God, and Renovation of the Heart.

From this more holistic perspective on spiritual formation, this period of training is expected to prepare teens to choose whether they are ready to confess faith in Jesus Christ.

At minimum, it points back toward the importance of the ancient and medieval emphases on spiritual formation, which is where evangelical scholarship about education has been pointing.

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He was well known to Christians for his books on discipleship and spiritual formation, including The Divine Conspiracy, The Spirit of the Disciplines,...

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

Challies defines mysticism as «those forms of Christian spirituality which attempt direct or unmediated access to God» and mentions, generally, the popularity of books on spiritual disciplines and spiritual formation and, specifically, books by Christian authors like Sarah Young and John Eldredge.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

Her research and teaching focuses on theology, spiritual formation and leadership.

A discipline - focus for spiritual formation can lead to legalism — as evidenced by the Christians who congratulate themselves on their daily Bible reading, church attendance, or the superior vocations of their children.

Michael Reeves oversees the work of Union School of Theology and teaches in the areas of systematic and historical theology and also on preaching and spiritual formation.

A fourth question concerns guiding students on theology programmes to link their intellectual studies to more general human, spiritual and pastoral formation.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

School of Christian Spiritual Formation 2017 Conference: Moving Forward by Drawing from the Past September 22 - 24 Join the School of Christian Spiritual Formation in Marietta, Georgia, for discussions from Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant perspectives on living the Christian life in a secular culture.

Gabriel Salguero, senior pastor of the multicultural Lamb's Church in New York City, shared on how diversity informs spiritual formation.

In Part 3, describes the role of church leaders in planning educational programs that are supportive of members of traditional and nontraditional families, but not dependent on «the Christian home» as the primary agency of Christian spiritual formation.

Christianity «was founded in an act of expiatory pain, has regarded human suffering as not only inseparable from the nature of life on earth, as a matter of observable fact, but also as a necessary condition in spiritual formation.»

I find, for example, the five following characteristics in these liturgies: (1) an affinity with the liturgies of the ancient church; (2) an order that follows the pattern of revelation and Christian experience; (3) a significant emphasis on reading and hearing the Word of God; (4) a high degree of congregational involvement; and (s) a view of the Lord's Supper which affirms its mystery and value for spiritual formation.

When correctly interpreted, the Christian spiritual formation on dying is an interior dying of the «Old Adam» or «false self», so that the «New Adam» or the true «Christic self» can be born in us.

It means that focus on everyone's spiritual formation is central and not peripheral to the community's common life.

Seton schools collaborate on academics, spiritual formation and school operations.

Seton Catholic Schools is a collaborative network of Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic elementary school focused on offering children an exceptional well - rounded education, spiritual formation, and opportunities for success.

The legendary Pu`u Keka`a lava rock formation, on Ka'anapali Beach, is a place where Hawaiians believe the souls of the dead leap from the earth into their ancestral spirit land, and only a person with great spiritual strength can enter that world and return.

Nature is the oldest theme in art: whether it be cave paintings of buffalo herds, the Laocoön Group fighting the snake, the hortus conclusus in medieval representations of Virgin Mary or Giorgione's looming Tempest, Flemish Still Life paintings, Manet's idyllic Luncheon on the Grass, Caspar David Friedrich's Sea of Ice, Van Gogh's psychedelic Sunflowers, Max Ernst's surreal forests, the spiritual mountain sceneries of der Blaue Reiter, or Arte Povera's energy objects and Land Art's earth formations — the list is endless.

Train and strengthen the individuals on the team by helping them grow in their spiritual formation.

Christian counseling and spiritual formation have played a crucial part of my own life journey, and I feel utterly blessed to accompany others on their journey to personal and relational transformation.

(Don't know if I've told you that I'm on the Board of Renovare», a ministry dedicated to Christian spiritual formation.