Celebration of Discipline, Special Anniversary Edition: The Path to Spiritual Growth

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

To understand that the work of prayer involves a learning process saves us from arrogantly dismissing it as false or unreal.

Those who have heard the distant call deep within and who desire to explore the world of the Spiritual Disciplines are immediately faced with two difficulties. The first is philosophic.

They obviously believed that they knew what the will of God was before they prayed the prayer of faith.

A third kind of contemplative prayer is meditation upon the creation.

Meditation is devotional; study is analytical.

We simply do not know how to go about exploring the inward life.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

God always meets us where we are and slowly moves us along into deeper things.