Finding a Guide for Your Spiritual Growth
There are several benefits to having a spiritual companion, director, or “trail guide” in your walk with Jesus. Here are some of the most compelling reasons—and how to find your own.
Being a disciple of Jesus is a life-long journey of deepening intimacy with God. Strengthen your personal journey through these reflections and practices.
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There are several benefits to having a spiritual companion, director, or “trail guide” in your walk with Jesus. Here are some of the most compelling reasons—and how to find your own.
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God’s given us many clues for sensing his presence and following his lead—if we will just pay attention.
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How can we discern whether something we heard in prayer is God or just us? How do we respond to what we hear anyway? Here’s some guidance for sorting it all out.
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Why celebrate in the midst of so much hardship and brokenness in the world? Because there’s something bigger going on…
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“God sightings” is a spiritual practice that helps us notice God’s presence in the most challenging or unlikely places.
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Far from being at odds with Kingdom action, contemplative practices—which encourage us simply to rest with and in God—are tools God uses to shape us for the Kingdom work he calls us to.
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Addictions to things that seem good (and are applauded by our culture) may be taking us captive—and Jesus wants us free.
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The message of the Kingdom is everywhere in the gospels. How is this central message of Jesus meant to impact and shape each of our lives?
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In God’s Kingdom, an unspeakable power—far greater than any kingdom or power of this world—is at work. But we often have to look beneath the surface of things to find it.
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Speaking life over the skin we are in starts with understanding God's vision for culture and ethnicity. Here are some ways to begin blessing our own ethnic identity and that of others.
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We carry life and death in our words of blessing and cursing, and one area that often suffers under the weight of our words is ethnic identity—our own, and that of others. In a world increasingly divided, how do we become Jesus’s agents of blessing and healing?
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Speaking blessings over the people in our lives can reveal places where God wants to make our hearts more like his.