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Arguably the most established contemporary spiritual classic by our most profound living religious writer. This timeless classic has helped well over a million people discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace and a deeper understanding of God.
The book explores the 'classic disciplines' of Christian faith: the inward disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study; the outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission and service and the corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance and celebration.
Nathan Foster was just a child when his father's classic
"Celebration of Discipline" brought the spiritual disciplines into
the popular evangelical consciousness. More than thirty years
later, Nathan made his own journey into the spiritual disciplines.
As he sought day by day to develop habits that would enable him to
live more like Jesus, he encountered problems both universal and
unique. In this engaging narrative, he draws insights from saints
of old to uncover fresh ways of living for the contemporary,
postmodern Christian.
Through his successes, struggles, and failures, Foster invites
readers on a journey of freedom, pain, frustration, and ultimately
joy as he learns to rise above selfish desires, laugh at his own
failures, and fall in love with God. Those who have read
"Celebration of Discipline "will find in Nathan's book creative new
ways to practice the disciplines that have been so formative in
their lives. Those who are new to the spiritual disciplines will
find that developing a vital, interactive, conversational
relationship with God is within their grasp. As a result, the holy
habits of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are truly possible for
all. Includes chapter openings and a foreword from Richard J.
Foster.
2011 Leadership Journal Top Book of the Year "At the very heart of
God is the passionate disposition to be in loving fellowship with
you. . . . From the human side of this equation it is meditative
prayer that ushers us into this divine-human fellowship." Richard
Foster, bestselling author and founder of Renovar?, writes these
words as one who has experienced what they describe. And in this
new book he will beautifully guide you in this transformational
way, that you might come to know deeper fellowship with God.
Weaving together quotes and stories from the lives of mothers and
fathers of the faith as well as powerful encounters with God from
his own life, Foster describes the riches of quieting your mind and
heart in order to listen to and obey God more closely. Along the
way, at perhaps his clearest, most practical best, he also provides
the biblical teaching and step-by-step help you need to begin this
prayer practice for yourself. The journey into meditative prayer is
not easy, but it is essential. And, as Foster shows, it's possible,
even in the midst of the noisy, often chaotic world we live in.
Your soul can become a sanctuary where you fellowship with the very
God of the universe, who knows you and loves you deeply. These
pages point the way.
No issues touch us more profoundly or universally,' writes Richard
Foster. 'No topics cause more controversy. No human realities have
greater power to bless or curse. No three things have been more
sought after or are more in need of a Christian response.' Money,
Sex and Power discerns the biblical principles that enable us to
live out a relevant and authentic response to the three greatest
temptations of our age. Gerard Kelly writes: 'Foster follows a road
few in recent years have travelled, and does so with depth, wit and
down-to-earth wisdom. Don't assume for one moment that this book is
anti-money, anti-sex or anti-power: the author has a healthy
respect and admiration for all three as sacred gifts of a loving
creator. What he does urge us to do, though, is to "live rightly"
in respect of these key ares, and so to be freed into a life of
creative celebration.'
Freedom of movement wasn't always an alien concept to the British.
Flower Factory tells of an English seasonal worker going to live
and work in the Netherlands at the turn of the millennium. These
psyched-out remembrances are set in the Bollenstreek of South
Holland, an area that produces flower bulbs by the billion. Casual
workers from all over Europe created their own ecosystem of squats,
parties and alternative living practices around the working
seasons, raving hard and living for the weekly pay packet. In the
year 2000 it seemed nothing would change in this free-and-easy
land, but the narrator witnessed the last beating of the 24 Hour
Party drum. Featuring original line illustrations by the author,
this surreally comic and immersive novel is a dreamlike snapshot of
life in Europe just two decades ago: the book shines a lurid light
on a world that's difficult to recognise today.
LIFE WITH GOD is Richard Foster's first major new work for nearly a
decade and is of similar magnitude to his classics: PRAYER,
CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE and STREAMS OF LIVING WATER.The starting
point of LIFE WITH GOD is that so many of us want to make the Bible
the foundation of our way of life, but struggle to make sense of
this huge, apparently disjointed book. Why is that Christians try
so hard to place the Bible at the centre of their lives, but in
reality get very little from it in terms of genuine
life-transforming practice? Richard Foster believes that it is
because we fail to grasp the overriding coherent message of the
Bible - that all of Scripture is unified around the theme of living
a vibrant and dynamic life with God. Breaking up history into
fifteen epochs that reveal the unfolding of God's plan for seeking
out a relationship with us, Foster sees the Bible as 'the loving
heart of God made visible and plain.'Readers will discover a whole
new way to read Scripture, making it a doorway to a lifestyle we
can master, rather than merely knowledge we understand.
Football inspires love and hate in equal measure. It creates
sporting moments that live with us forever. It also offers a unique
opportunity to pour scorn, inflict blame, and generally get angry.
Just look at our treatment of the England team and the fate of
almost every premiership manager; football is brilliant at building
them up only to knock them down again. But the game inspires so
much frustration precisely because fans are so devoted. The things
we hate in the game show just how important it is to us. This funny
and fascinating collection of 'football hates' will ring true with
every supporter who both loves the game, and hates what some people
do to it. Richard Foster tackles the issues that so incense the
ordinary football supporter, from agents to England and from
haircuts to diving. The book also features many contributions from
well-known figures and, of course, long-suffering fans.
Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling,
and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand,
experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple
prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the
prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way
into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and
rest.
Coming to prayer is like coming home, Foster says. "Nothing
feels more right, more like what we are created to be and to do.
Yet at the same time we are confronted with great mysteries. Who
hasn't struggled with the puzzle of unanswered prayer? Who hasn't
wondered how a finite person can commune with the infinite Creator
of the universe? Who hasn't questioned whether prayer isn't merely
psychological manipulation after all? We do our best, of course, to
answer these knotty questions but when all is said and done, there
is a sense in which these mysteries remain unanswered and
unanswerable . . . At such times we must learn to become
comfortable with the mystery."
Foster shows how prayer can move us inward into personal
transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to
minister to others. He leads us beyond questions to a deeper
understanding and practice of prayer, bringing us closer to God, to
ourselves, and to our community.
'I recommend Streams of Living Water everywhere I go. My own
personal copy is dog-eared, underlined and annotated by hand.
Anyone with a heart for Christian unity should read and celebrate
the message of this book. I consider it to be a seminal title for
our time' - Pete Greig In this landmark work, Richard Foster
examines the 'streams of living water' - the six dimensions of
faith and practice - that have defined Christian tradition around
the world and down the centuries. In this inspiring book he looks
at: - the Contemplative tradition - or the prayer-filled life - the
Holiness tradition - or the virtuous life - the Charismatic
tradition - or the Spirit-empowered life - the Social Justice
tradition - or the compassionate life - the Evangelical tradition -
or the word-centred life - the Incarnational tradition - or the
sacramental life Foster's celebration of the spiritual life
incorporates history's most significant Christian figures and
movements and argues for a rich, well-rounded faith, free of
constricting labels. 'A book that will make you adore God' - Dallas
Willard
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