Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness. -1 Timothy 4:7 If anything other than godliness is your purpose for spiritual disciplines, you will lose momentum. Spiritual disciplines are not to earn God’s love, increase his favor for you, or to help him by supplying something lacking in him. God doesn’t need you to spend time with him. If you don’t spend …
I have read through Donald Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life a few times over the last few years. I reread it this week and reminded of what a treasure it is. It is not a good book on spiritual disciplines. It is the book on spiritual disciplines. The book is extremely biblical and practical. It is a needed …
This week’s book of the week is Donald S. Whitney’s Simplify Your Spiritual Life. I first read Dr. Whitney’s book on spiritual disciplines in seminary, and he has one of the most helpful and practical voices to helping people grow spiritually. In a chaotic world, he wrote this volume to give many bite-size chapters on how to simplify your spiritual …
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