The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime, Volume 3
10 best books like The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime, Volume 3 (Phyllis A. Tickle): Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants, Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God, A Book of Hours, The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year, Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity, Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer, Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0874869269 |
Though Easter is often trivialized by the culture at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there can be no Easter without Lent, the season that leads up to it.
A time for self-denial, soul-searching, and spiritual...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1594489963 |
Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself...
| Author | Robert E. Webber |
| ISBN | 0801091756 |
Millions of Christians worldwide follow the liturgical Christian calendar in their worship services and in their own personal devotions. The seasons of the Christian year connect believers of diverse backgrounds and offer the sense of unity Jesus desired. Robert Webber believes that we can get...
| Author | Dennis Okholm |
| ISBN | 1587431858 |
In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed...
| Author | Bobby Gross |
| ISBN | 0830835202 |
Infuse your days with meaning. You are part of a larger Story. And the One who began the Story is at work today, in your life, in the midst of your meetings and bills and family activities that make the days rush by and blur together. In these pages Bobby Gross opens to you--and opens you to--the liturgical...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 1933495057 |
This book is set up in the daily liturgical cycle, but instead of prayers from a lectionary or scripture readings, it is entirely composed of Thomas Merton's thoughts on silence, contemplation, nature, and listening to God. It's a great way to silence your soul to listen to God, and a good balance to something...
| Author | Kimberlee Conway Ireton |
The seasons tell a story. Are you listening? The church year is a uniquely Christian way of marking time. When Kimberlee Conway Ireton began to understand this, even the most ordinary incidents of her life began to resonate with the stories of Scripture. In this book, Kimberlee follows the structure...
| Author | David L. Felten |
| ISBN | 0062109367 |
Ministers David Felten and Jeff Procter-Murphy, along with an all-star cast of Bible scholars and top church teachers, provide a primer to a church movement that encourages every Christian to “live the questions” instead of “forcing the answers.” Based on the bestselling DVD course of the...
| Author | Thomas Keating |
| ISBN | 0824515889 |
This book was recommended to me by a monk in his eighties in a meeting of spiritual direction with me. I had been feeling very attracted to the practice of Zen meditation for its focus on the present moment, breathing, and acceptance of change, pain, emotional ups and downs, etc. I had felt that my prayer...
| Author | Martin Laird |
| ISBN | 0195307607 |
Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly thought to be the preserves of Hindus and Buddhists. Martin Laird shows that the Christian tradition of contemplation has its own refined teachings on using a prayer word to focus the mind, working with...
| Author | The Northumbria Community |
| ISBN | 0060013249 |
The Ancient Paths of Northumbria in northeastern England have been trod by generations of men and women who loved God and followed Jesus, bringing faith, hope, and love to vast numbers of people. Today, the Northumbria Community remains a living expression of this monastic, contemplative stream...
Most Christians want to experience spiritual transformation. But many are frustrated by the limited progress of our spiritual self-improvement efforts. We find our praying burdened by a sense of obligation and failure.
But prayer is not merely something we do; prayer is what God does in...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 0849901197 |
A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
This book sets out to open what may at first...
In Constant Prayer (The Ancient Practices)
| Author | Robert Benson |
| ISBN | 0849901138 |
What does it mean to pray without ceasing? Is it really that important to pray as the early Church did? In this installment of The Ancient Practices series, Robert Benson presents a structure forour lives where we can live in continued awareness of God s presence and reality.A pattern for worship and...
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
| Author | Adele Ahlberg Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0830833307 |
Have you heard about these practices and wanted to try them? Have you wandered from one practice to another not sure quite what to do? Are you overwhelmed by all the to-dos of your spiritual life? We have good desires--for a more intimate prayer life, perhaps, or deeper insight from God's Word--but we...
Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
| Author | Walter Brueggemann |
| ISBN | 0800634608 |
I don't think that many congregants listen much to the prayers of their pastor, nor students to the prayers of their teachers. Perhaps that's because we're saying it with them (The Lord's Prayer, for example) and we've said it so many times, or because they pastor usually says the same similar things...
Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060669667 |
Originally, I didn't want to read this book because I thought it was a bunch of dull writings by a bunch of dead white guys (I was in my mid 20's when I read it). While part of that is true (I think they're all dead), I enjoyed it until towards the end. The last few selections aren't quite as interesting to me for...
Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0060665122 |
This little book is not only one of the best books I have read on the subject of prayer, it is also one of the finest books on Christian spirituality.
Though I have read other books by Peterson, this may be Peterson at his authorial best. With laser-focus, he etches into each chapter the contour...
Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
| Author | Shane Claiborne |
| ISBN | 0310326192 |
Common Prayer helps today’s diverse church pray together across traditions and denominations. With an ear to the particulars of how various liturgical traditions pray, and using an advisory team of liturgy experts, the authors have created a tapestry of prayer that celebrates the best of each...
Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying With Icons
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 1594711364 |
Protestants have historically had a hard time with icons. They seem vaguely idolatrous. After all, people seem to spend time in prayer in front of them. That, of course, is an outsider's view. This is the book that will clarify why icons are such a valuable part of Orthodox tradition and spirituality....
A Diary of Private Prayer
| Author | John Baillie |
| ISBN | 0684824981 |
With over a million copies in print, John Baillie’s classic collection of scripture and prayers is a beautiful daily devotional, the perfect companion guide to any Christian seeking to enrich their life through growth in prayer.
In this book of personal devotions, noted theologian Dr....
A Royal "Waste" of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World
Following up on her best selling Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, Marva Dawn offers biblically grounded, experience-based insights to help churches navigate beyond today's destructive worship wars and to stimulate renewal in the worship and life of congregations.
The first major section...
