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Meditating on the Word

Essays and Readings on How to Meditate on Scripture Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer For the C.S. Lewis Fellowship’s October study, fellows dove into the Word of God, including everything from its authenticity, its accuracy, it’s role in our life, and how we should use it to meditate. As a part of this study, we were all asked to read Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Meditating on the Word, which is a collection of Bonhoeffer’s writings (some of them unfinished) about the importance of meditating on scripture and being led by scripture above all things. Although it’s never stated, the theme is “sola scriptura,” or scripture [...]

2024-04-03T06:29:33-07:00January 14th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

How to Understand and Adopt Spiritual Disciplines  Author: Donald S. Whitney I discovered Donald S. Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life through a C.S. Lewis Fellowship assignment; the assignment was to read only two chapters, focusing on the importance of reading and meditating on scripture, yet I stayed for the entire book. And I am very glad that I did. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life is a fantastic, if not comprehensive, look at several key spiritual disciplines that help to focus and improve the Christian’s devotional life. These disciplines include scripture reading, prayer, worship, scripture meditation, evangelism, serving, stewardship [...]

2024-01-06T16:11:27-07:00January 6th, 2024|Tags: , , , |

Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power in Your Life, The

A Good Introductory Guide to the Holy Spirit Author: Billy Graham As part of the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program, we were tasked to read Billy Graham’s The Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power In Your Life as part of the September study on the Holy Spirit. I was very excited for this study, since I think Christians often ignore or sideline the Holy Spirit. Most Christians certainly don’t have a good understanding of His role, and despite what we say, we often don’t see Him as being equal with the other two members of the Trinity: God and Jesus. This was [...]

2023-12-22T21:03:07-07:00December 22nd, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |
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