IVP Formatio - Böcker

Keri Wyatt Kent explores how the disciplines of gardening parallel the disciplines of spiritual life. As you work with God to create the right conditions in the soil of your soul, growth will follow. And the harvest will be glorious.

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Barton looks at the complexity of womens lives and how they experience spiritual transformation. The author believes that women desire to discover their full identity in Christ and use their gifts to serve him.

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In this follow-up to his first book, "The Good and Beautiful God," Smith traces through the Sermon on the Mount and helps Christians look behind these sins to replace their false beliefs with Jesus' narratives about life in the kingdom o...

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James Bryan Smith has found Colossians 3:1-17 to be a rich resource for understanding what it means to have our lives hidden in Christ. Each of the thirty short chapters of this devotional brings out the main truth of just one word or phrase in th...

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Spiritual formation is the key to the survival of our faith. There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and throughout Europe has been branded as usele...

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Juanita called it "e;The Crash."e;Her counselor labeled it "e;a major depressive episode."e; Others called it a nervous breakdown. On the spiritual front, it was a dark night of the soul. This experience landed Juanita, a busy past...

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God's kingdom is not far away, a remote and future promise. It is here, now. In this deeply joyful book, Anglican priest and retreat director Chris Webb invites us to live in the reality of God's presence in our everyday lives and experience its f...

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ECPA Christian Book of the Year, Christianity Today Book of the YearAn Honest, Prayerful Approach to the Difficulty of Ordinary LifeHow can we trust God in the dark?Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human ...

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What if we lived in a world of abundance?In the Beatitudes, Jesus offers nine sayings that move us beyond our first instincts and instead embrace the deeper reality of the kingdom of God. They name the illusions and false beliefs that have kept us...

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Most Christians want to experience spiritual transformation. But many are frustrated by the limited progress of our spiritual self-improvement efforts. We find our praying burdened by a sense of obligation and failure. But prayer is not merely som...

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Three deaths in three years. His mother. His best friend. And now, his two-year-old daughter. In this moving story a Christian author goes to a retreat center to grieve and face the hard questions about God that he is asking in the wake of these l...

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"e;You're not good enough."e;"e;You need to try harder."e;"e;Everything's fine!"e;These are the sorts of voices that we all have in our heads, and they often push us to act in ways that are both unhelpful and unsu...

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"e;I am a number One on the Enneagram."e; Juanita Rasmus continues: "e;If you are a One, you know the weight of the world we carry. If you know a One, these readings will give you enhanced insight into our world. Either way, bring your...

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What is it like to be an Enneagram Two? Pastor, lawyer, and Enneagram speaker Hunter Mobley reflects on this question with a mix of self-compassion and hunger for personal growth. Using the metaphor of a welcoming Southern porch, he describes Twos...

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What is it like to be an Enneagram Three? Pastor Sean Palmer reflects on this question in a spirit of honest self-assessment. He draws wisdom from the deep wells of both counseling and spirituality using illustrations from Scripture and life. Each...

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"e;How are you feeling?"e; Christine Yi Suh says that this has always been a hard question. She writes: "e;The more accurate question for a Four may be, 'What aren't you feeling?' I can grab my prevailing emotion and tell you how I'm d...

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What is it like to be an Enneagram Five? Instagram poet and artist Morgan Harper Nichols reflects on this question in a spirit of honest self-assessment and with a desire for personal and spiritual growth. She draws wisdom from the deep wells of c...

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"e;When I discovered I was an Enneagram Six, I didn't want to be one."e; Pastor Tara Beth Leach continues, "e;I hated that I was marked by fear,"e; reflecting on how fear and anxiety can plague a Six-whether they are pulling back f...

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What is it like to be an Enneagram Seven? Adventurer, spiritual leader, and artist Gideon Tsang tackles this question with the signature style of a Seven. Intermixed with stories of travel and making new friends in surprising places, is a commitme...

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What is it like to be an Enneagram Eight?"e;Fsforito! The explosion happened so quickly there was no stopping it. My mother called me 'tiny match' when she would see this fire exploding from me."e; This is how Latina pastor, activist, and ...

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"e;Why do you hold back?"e; Enneagram Nines are often asked questions like this by others who want to invite them to share their gifts. Marlena Graves describes her own experience with deciding whether to speak up: "e;I know what it's ...

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- The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner (Spirituality)"e;I am a recovering speed addict."e;Beginning with this confession, pastor and spiritual director Alan Fadling describes his journey out of the fast lane and into the ...

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Being close to God means communicating with him-telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and hearing, and understanding what he is saying to us. But how do we hear God's voice? How can we be sure that what we think we hear is not our own s...

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Since Eugene Peterson first wrote this spiritual formation classic nearly forty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been inspired by its call to deeper discipleship. As a society, we are still obsessed with the immediate; new techn...

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Learning to Live the Life You Long ForIn Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, "e;If you're worn out in this footrace with men, what makes you think you can race against horses?"e;We all long to live life at its best to fuse freedom ...

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"e;What wisdom do I bring to the later years? Nothing more than the wisdom of dwelling in the present moment. No more than the courage of God's promises. Nothing more than the courage to walk through sorrow. No more than the unlimited fut...

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We are not alone.God is present with us. And God gives us companions on the journey. A spiritual director is one such companion, offering spiritual guidance to help- make sense of the faith journey- interpret the significant markers on the road- e...

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What does exercise have to do with our souls?How do our sleeping habits relate to being conformed to the likeness of Christ?What do our bodies have to do with spiritual formation?Valerie Hess has taken up these questions with her spiritual formati...

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Discover an ancient way of prayer that leads us to new union with God."e;Long ago,"e; Calvin Miller writes, "e;when the Celts built their own rustic kingdom of God in what would later be the British Isles, their fervor in prayer washed...

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