The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes LivesHarper Collins, 6 окт. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 288 How to Live as Jesus Lived Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention. |
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... Jesus quoted above from Matthew 11 : 29-30 pre- sent an alternative to the desolation of life lived apart from God . Yet , in all honesty , most Christians probably find both Jesus ' state- ment and its reiteration by the author of 1 ...
... Jesus quoted above from Matthew 11 : 29-30 pre- sent an alternative to the desolation of life lived apart from God . Yet , in all honesty , most Christians probably find both Jesus ' state- ment and its reiteration by the author of 1 ...
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... Jesus calls us to follow him — to follow him now , not after death . No one denies that we would be far better off and our world an immeasurably better place , if we were to conform in deed and spirit to who he is and what he taught ...
... Jesus calls us to follow him — to follow him now , not after death . No one denies that we would be far better off and our world an immeasurably better place , if we were to conform in deed and spirit to who he is and what he taught ...
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... Jesus understood this fact well and lived accordingly . Because of the contemporary bias with which we read the Gospels - a bias we'll be discussing later we have great difficulty seeing the main emphases in his life . We forget that ...
... Jesus understood this fact well and lived accordingly . Because of the contemporary bias with which we read the Gospels - a bias we'll be discussing later we have great difficulty seeing the main emphases in his life . We forget that ...
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... Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek , go the second mile , bless those who persecute us , give unto them that ask , and so forth . These responses , generally and rightly understood to be characteristic of ...
... Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek , go the second mile , bless those who persecute us , give unto them that ask , and so forth . These responses , generally and rightly understood to be characteristic of ...
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... Jesus did invite people to follow him into that sort of life from which behavior such as loving one's enemies will seem like the only sensible and happy thing to do . For a person living that life , the hard thing to do would be to hate ...
... Jesus did invite people to follow him into that sort of life from which behavior such as loving one's enemies will seem like the only sensible and happy thing to do . For a person living that life , the hard thing to do would be to hate ...
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Little Less Than a God | 44 |
The Nature of Life | 56 |
St Pauls Psychology of RedemptionThe Example | 95 |
History and the Meaning of the Disciplines | 130 |
Some Main Disciplines for the Spiritual Life | 156 |
Is Poverty Spiritual? | 215 |
Epilogue | 251 |
For SuperChristians Only? | 258 |
Bibliography | 266 |
Subject Index | 273 |
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Стр. vii - The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error.
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Стр. 200 - If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
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Стр. 132 - Celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude, and the whole train of monkish virtues; for what reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society ; neither qualify him for entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?
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Стр. 15 - until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ...