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The Shared Experience of Growing Up Evangelical but Spiritually Underdeveloped
How to Grow Spiritually I grew up in a warm, Bible-believing, evangelical church. The people there were great, the Bible was lifted up, and the Scriptures were preached. In many ways, I look back with great fondness and thanksgiving for my evangelical upbringing, but I did sometimes wonder, What exactly does growth in the Christian life look like?
A Tool for Spiritual Formation You Might Be Underutilizing
The Art of “Conference” Whether in the context of home or church, one of the primary ways that Christian relationships advance our spiritual formation is through the honest, serious, God-honoring conversations that they make possible. The apostle Paul teaches that when believers are “speaking the truth in love” to one another, they will “grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ” (Eph. 4:15).
Podcast: How (and How Not) to Think About Spiritual Habits in the New Year (Matthew Bingham)
This article is part of the The Crossway Podcast series. How to Pattern Your Life as a Christian in the New Year In this podcast Matthew Bingham gives some practical advice on spiritual habits to practice in the new year. Matthew talks about how these spiritual disciplines have been a part of church history for a long time and how to make spiritual disciplines more than just rules to live under and, instead, enriching practices in your life.
The Problem with Comer’s Cafeteria Approach to Spirituality
First, the widespread interest in and unease about his approach tell me something deeper is going on. Many Christians I’ve spoken to express discomfort with Comer’s approach, but they can’t always articulate why. That tension warrants further reflection. Second, the differences between Comer’s approach and a Reformed Christian perspective on spiritual formation are worth exploring. Comer’s book is influencing many evangelicals.
Church Community Is a Necessary Part of Your Spiritual Formation
Christians Don’t Walk Alone From one perspective, the true Christian can never be truly alone, for he or she is called to be, like Abraham, “a friend of God” (James 2:23). As Richard Sibbes put it, “Christ is our friend in taking our nature to make God and us friends again.”1 Jesus has called us his friends (John 15:15), and as the good shepherd (John 10:14), he will lead us “in paths of righteousness” for his name’s sake (Ps. 23:3).
How Exactly Do I Meditate? Protestant and Catholic Visions in Tension
ABSTRACT: Historically, Protestants have prized the biblical practice of meditation as one of God’s chief means of grace. Unlike Roman Catholics, however, the Reformers, Puritans, and their spiritual descendants have rarely offered detailed instructions for exactly how to meditate. The two approaches represent differing convictions about Scripture and tradition, and differing understandings of meditation itself.
Union with Christ Is at the Heart of Reformation Theology
Real heart change is the work of God’s Spirit alone. Yes, the Spirit uses means, but by following the Reformers in recognizing that justification and sanctification exist as distinct but inseparable realities, both flowing from union with Christ, we can rest in the knowledge that our justification is secure and finished while vigorously pursuing Spirit-empowered sanctification.
Union with Christ Is at the Heart of Reformation Theology
Union with Christ When the Puritan allegorist John Bunyan (1628–1688) finally discovered spiritual peace, he described the awakening as a dramatic release from bondage: “Now did my chains fall off my legs indeed; I was loosened from my afflictions and irons. . . .
The Irreplaceable Value of Prayer in Your Spiritual Formation
What Is Prayer? What exactly is prayer? The simplest and most straightforward way to define prayer is as a person talking to God.
Ex-Evangelicals and the Search for a Deeper Faith
Modern Christianity Why do evangelicals become ex-evangelicals? The answers vary: some leave because they have been wounded by unwise or even abusive leaders; others depart because they come to doubt the truthfulness of Scripture; for still many more, there is no one obvious reason, just a long, slow drifting away. But for a significant number of ex-evangelicals, their disillusionment is not about religious apathy or aversion but, rather, quite the opposite.
How Should We Think About Meditation and Mindfulness?
Robbed of Focus Our culture is very attuned right now to questions of mindfulness and meditation. You see that language and the practices to which they refer all over the place. It’s understandable that we would be interested in those things because if there’s one thing our cultural moment is good at, it’s distracting us with all sorts of things—from short video clips to our phone beeping at us. It’s the pace of life and the rate of change.
A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation
By Matthew C. Bingham ... Show All How 21st-Century Evangelicals Can Pursue Spiritual Growth through Early Modern Puritan Piety “Keep your heart” (Proverbs 4:23). “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12). “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). Scripture beckons Christians toward obedience and maturity, but many modern approaches to spiritual formation are less than biblical. In A Heart Aflame for God, Matthew C.
The Economics of Competing Water Uses under a FERC Licensing Agreement Estimation of Property Value, Recreation, and Hydroelectric Impacts
1. Introduction Hydropower does not require fuel input. As such, it has no emissions and among the lowest operating costs of electricity generating technologies. Creating hydropower facilities typically requires constructing a reservoir. Although constructing reservoirs has negative impacts such as interrupting stream flows and flooding land, reservoirs that are constructed for hydropower often ultimately result in many beneficial uses.
Measuring and Improving Environmental Justice in the Urban Outdoors
1. Introduction Outdoor recreation connects us with nature and each other, improves our physical and mental health, and supports community attractiveness and vitality. Given the importance of outdoor recreation to public wellbeing, and that parks are typically publicly funded, it is important that urban park systems are equitable.
5 Steps to Help You Practice Meditation
Don’t Neglect Meditation Given the stress early modern writers laid on meditation as a revealed duty incumbent on all Christians and not an optional add-on, it is worth asking whether contemporary evangelicals have neglected or even forgotten this once-esteemed practice altogether.
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Registrations are now open for the 10th Anniversary of the Riviera Yacht Support Golf Bonanza 2019 - Friday 04/10
The Riviera Yacht Support Golf Bonanza is one of the most highly anticipated events on the Mediterranean yachting industry's calendar. This year is the 10th Anniversary that will be proudly hosted for the 10th year at the beautiful Grande Bastide Golf Course in Châteauneuf Grasse-Opio on the French Riviera. To add to the spirit of our 10th anniversary, we will be playing the more convivial golf format of a Texas Scramble.
REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN! Join the Riviera Yacht Support Snow Bonanza 2019
REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! The Riviera Yacht Support Snow Bonanza is one of the most highly anticipated winter events for the yachting industry on the French Riviera. This year is the amazing 10th-year anniversary edition that will be hosted at Auron ski resort on Friday 29 March 2019.
JOIN the Riviera Yacht Support Golf Bonanza 2018 !
The 9th edition of the Riviera Yacht Support Golf Bonanza will be held on Friday 5th October 2018 at the beautiful Grande Bastide Golf Course in Châteauneuf Grasse-Opio on the French Riviera. The day includes friendly competition over 18-holes of golf, a 19th-hole Champagne reception, a hearty 3-course lunch (with drinks), and a generous prize giving with plenty of opportunities to meet other professionals and companies from the yachting industry.
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