When we are young we grow physically and get bigger (and if you are a parent you know just how frustrating and expensive that can be!) and as we get older we also grow mentally, both intellectually ...

Growing up in church, and especially while at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, I would hear the words “spiritual ...

This discussion of spiritual practices that have defined Christians over the centuries certainly lives up to its name. Sixty-two spiritual disciplines or practices are explained, grouped in seven ...

Discover how embracing tension during workouts can improve physical fitness and how applying the same principle to spiritual ...

How better understanding our brains can help us grow in conformity to Christ. This was the extent of my spiritual formation. Of course, no one talked about spiritual formation when I was growing up.

Fasting during Lent represents one of Christianity’s most profound spiritual disciplines, with roots extending deep into biblical traditions. Though not explicitly outlined in scripture, this practice ...

Essentially a very long list of disciplines that Christians should practice (e.g. prayer, Bible study, fasting and solitude), Moore's book is frustratingly tedious, saying little that his target ...

As a young man, I was privileged to be an eyewitness to the rise of the Christian spiritual formation movement. It began, in its modern form, in 1978, when Richard Foster wrote what has become the ...

The first time it struck me, I was reading Henri Nouwen’s Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring. “It seems fair to say that between the ages of one and thirty, people are considered ...