A RENOVAR resource for spiritual renewal--This beginning workbook for Spiritual Formation Groups features guidelines for starting up, study plans for the first eight sessions, and a questionnaire that helps map the way ahead.

Spiritual Formation Workbook

Religion & Spirituality

Smith, James Bryan

Christian Books & Bibles

Fount

A beginning workbook for new spiritual formation groups featuring guidelines for starting up, study plans for the first eight sessions, and a questionnaire that helps map the way ahead.

Spiritual Formation Workbook, A

FOSTER, Richard J.

HarperOne

This beginning workbook for Spiritual Formation Groups features guidelines for starting a group, study plans for the first nine sessions, and a questionnaire that helps map the way ahead. Based upon six major dimensions of the spiritual life found in the life of Christ and Christian tradition: The Contemplative Tradition - The Holiness Tradition - The Charismatic Tradition - The Social Justice Tradition - The Evangelical Tradition - and The Incarnational Tradition, this workbook program provides all the necessary ingredients to start and maintain a Spiritual Formation Group. 
Successfully used by thousands of Spiritual Formation Group participants, A Spiritual Formation Workbook has been completely revised to correlate with Richard J. Foster's Streams of Living Water. Its new and updated exercises and teachings offer fresh perspectives on Christian faith and practice.
Christian in perspective and ecumenical in breadth, RENOVARÉ (from the Latin, meaning "to renew") is an effort committed to the renewal of the Church. Founded by bestselling writer Richard J. Foster, RENOVARÉ provides individual churches with a balanced, practical, effective small-group strategy for spiritual growth.

A Spiritual Formation Workbook - Revised edition: Small Group Resources for Nurturing Christian Growth

Turning to the Gospels, James Bryan Smith invites you to compare your ideas about with what Jesus himself reveals about his Father. Smith leads you through a process of spiritual formation that includes specific activities aimed at making these new narratives real in your body and soul as well as your mind. A Renovare and Willow Creek Resource.

The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows (Apprentice (IVP Books) (16pt Large Print Edition)

ReadHowYouWant

James Bryan Smith believes we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. In this follow up to his first book, The Good and Beautiful God, Smith traces through the Sermon on the Mount and helps us replace our false beliefs with Jesus' narratives about life in the kingdom of God. A Renovare and Willow Creek Resource.

The Good and Beautiful Life: : Putting on the Character of Christ (The Apprentice Series) (16pt Large Print Edition)

Chronicles the life and faith of Rich Mullins, the Christian musician who left the music world to live among the Native Americans on a reservation in New Mexico.

Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

B & H Pub Group

During his life, Rich Mullins challenged the sensibilities of what it means to follow Jesus in today's world, and now in his death, he challenges all to build upon his legacy of joy, compassion, brokenness, unblinking honesty, and wonder of an Awesome God

Rich Mullins: A Devotional Biography: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven

B&H Books

The death of his best friend, Wayne, a famous Christian musician, plunges Tim into a crisis of faith that he confronts on a spiritual retreat wherein he is presented with images of the abundant rewards of his life. Original.

Room of Marvels

Broadman & Holman Publishing Group

In one tragic blow after another, accomplished Christian writer Tim Hudson lost his mother, his close friend, and his two-year-old daughter. Now he’s on the brink of losing his faith.
Room of Marvels takes readers on a silent spiritual retreat with Tim where he is swept up in a dream vision of heaven and given a guided tour by those he has lost. Reminiscent of the C. S. Lewis classic, The Great Divorce, the book carries a contemporary voice that made Library Journal declare it “a good companion to Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven.”
Remarkably, Room of Marvels mirrors author James Bryan Smith’s own heart-wrenching season of loss when his mother (Wanda), close friend (“Awesome God” singer Rich Mullins), and two-year-old daughter (Madeline) passed away within months of each other.
Updated with a new cover design and epilogue by Smith, the 2007 edition of Room of Marvels will continue to comfort those touched by grief and stir the hunger for heaven in every reader.
Endorsements
“A delightful fantasy.” —Cecil Murphey, coauthor, 90 Minutes in Heaven
“If you’ve ever felt the sting of death from the loss of one you love, Smith’s book will lead you into a warm, inviting room.” —Knight Ridder
“One of those profound, special books that only comes along once in awhile.” —InfuzeMag.com

Literature & Fiction

United States

B&H Fiction

<ul><li>Over 200,000 sold!</li></ul> "God wants me to try harder." "God blesses me when I'm good and punishes me when I'm bad." "God is angry with me." We all have ideas that we tell ourselves about God and how he works in our lives. Some are true--but many are false. James Bryan Smith believes those thoughts determine not only who we are, but how we live. In fact, Smith declares, the most important thing about a person is what they think about God. The path to spiritual transformation begins here. Turning to the Gospels, Smith invites you to put your ideas to the test to see if they match up with what Jesus himself reveals about God. Once you've discovered the truth in Scripture, Smith leads you through a process of spiritual formation that includes specific activities aimed at making these new narratives real in your body and soul as well as your mind. At the end of each chapter you'll find an opportunity for soul training, engaging in spiritual practices that reinforce the biblical messages on your mind and heart. Because the best way to make a complete and lasting change is to go through the material in community, small group discussion questions also accompany each chapter. Those who are leading apprentice groups will also find additional help and opportunities to interact with other leaders at the Apprentice website, www.apprenticeofjesus.com. This deep, loving and transformative book will help you discover the narratives that Jesus lived by--to know the Lord he knew and the kingdom he proclaimed--and to practice spiritual exercises that will help you grow in the knowledge of our good and beautiful God.

The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows (The Good and Beautiful Series)

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Spiritual Formation Workbook

Spiritual Formation Workbook, A

A Spiritual Formation Workbook - Revised edition: Small Group Resources for Nurturing Christian Growth

The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows (Apprentice (IVP Books) (16pt Large Print Edition)

The Good and Beautiful Life: : Putting on the Character of Christ (The Apprentice Series) (16pt Large Print Edition)

Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven

Rich Mullins: A Devotional Biography: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven

Room of Marvels

Room of Marvels

The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows (The Good and Beautiful Series)