As I mentioned in Friday's Week in Review, my InterVarsity colleague Tom Trevethan pointed me to a recent post by Fuller president Richard J. Mouw on Duke's Call & Response blog. Mouw asks: What difference does it make to open class with prayer? … [Read more...] about Do You Pray Before Class?
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Strength through Pruning
Last week, I began reading the new book from IVP publisher Bob Fryling, The Leadership Ellipse: Shaping How We Lead By Who We Are. I've been thinking quite a bit about the question "Who am I?" (and reading other IVP books on the subject of being yourself). Bob seeks to connect two popular genres that don't often interact with one another: spiritual formation books that focus on the contemplative, internal life, and leadership books that focus on the active, external life. In truth, our internal and external lives cannot … [Read more...] about Strength through Pruning
How Did You Celebrate Easter?
Do you think of worship, hospitality, or celebration as spiritual disciplines? If you're like me, you associate the idea of "discipline" with things that are hard, like fasting, daily prayer, intense Bible study, and so on. But if a discipline is something that trains us to live and think rightly, then what better response to the resurrection can there be than over-the-top celebration? In fact, celebration holds a place of honor in both of my top two books on spiritual disciplines. Richard Foster, in Celebration of … [Read more...] about How Did You Celebrate Easter?