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"I'm tired of helping others enjoy God―I just want to enjoy God for myself." With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership explores topics such as responding to the dynamics of calling facing the loneliness of leadership leading from your authentic self cultivating spiritual community reenvisioning the promised land discerning God's will together

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Injustice is rampant around us. It is also present within us. To better confront oppression in the world, we must own that reality and look to Christ our liberator. Lent is the opportune time for this as we contemplate his suffering together. With selections from a diverse range of IVP books, A Just Passion has been curated to hold in tension the immense weight and hope of the Lenten season. This collection of short readings, breath prayers, and Scripture passages from the First Nations Version guides readers through a six-week journey of repentance, lament, worship, and healing.

Meetings can sap our energy, rupture community and thoroughly demoralize us. They can go on forever with no resolution. Or they can rush along without consensus just to “get through the agenda.” What if there was another way? Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have long relied on models adapted from the business world. Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center, helps teams transition to a much more suitable model—the spiritual community that discerns God’s will together

Ruth Haley Barton's award-winning, practical introduction to the spiritual practice of silence and solitude is an invitation to you to journey into the real presence of God and hear and his voice. Much of the Christian faith is about words - preaching, teaching, talking with others. But the hectic demands and noise of daily modern life can drown out God's words, and keep us from fully meeting him. Taking the story of Elijah the prophet as inspiration and example, Invitation to Solitude and Silence explores the power of quietness and stillness in connecting with God. Filled with practical exercises that draw on Ruth's own experience, it encourages and challenges us to rethink how we see silence and solitude and to use them to invite God deeper into our lives. Invitation to Solitude and Silence is ideal for anyone looking for spiritual disciplines to help them connect more fully with God and practices to aid their spiritual formation. Ruth's gentle wisdom will expand your idea of what…

Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, this course explores topics such as: embarking on a leader’s journey into solitude and silence responding to the dynamics of calling facing the loneliness of leadership leading from your authentic self cultivating spiritual community at the leadership level reenvisioning the promised land Each session includes guidance in spiritual practices that help you forge and maintain a life-giving connection with God because the best thing you bring to leadership is your own transforming self.

When we experience frustrations in daily life, many of us hold ourselves to blame. Self-criticism is often our default setting. But we can have a more gracious posture toward ourselves. We can practice disciplines of self-kindness.

Ruth Haley Barton brinda sabiduría, sanidad y ayuda concreta a las personas que están prontas a recibir «más» de Dios en medio de sus múltiples ocupaciones y desean hallar la manera de reordenar su vida a fin de recibir la presencia transformadora de Dios. Con toda claridad, la autora presenta un excelente ritmo de prácticas espirituales tradicionales que nos ayudan a estar abiertos y dispuestos a la acción transformadora de Dios en nosotros y entre nosotros. Las prácticas propuestas están fundadas en nuestros deseos más profundos y conectan nuestros deseos con el bienestar que Dios desea para nosotros. Resultan de gran inspiración las experiencias de su lucha como cristiana, que la autora comparte con toda franqueza. Barton ofrece sugerencias útiles para usar el libro con grupos de personas que buscan crear mejores condiciones en su vida para poder recibir la presencia transformadora de Dios.

In this book, worship leader Rory Noland offers a vision for worship as spiritual formation. Spiritual formation is the key to the survival of our faith. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and throughout Europe has been branded as useless and irrelevant. To stem the tide of nominal Christianity, we need to get serious about making disciples who can make other disciples. There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Rory Noland is a wor...

En Una invitación al silencio y quietud, Barton le ofrece al lector una guía espiritual para su viaje, de modo que pueda escuchar claramente el llamado de Dios, y le muestra una manera concreta de decir «sí».

In the quiet places of your heart, do you ever yearn for something more? Many Christian women, if we are honest, feel discontented about aspects of our lives. Some of us long to be married, while others long to escape from marriage. Some of us struggle with our roles in the church, wondering why God would give us gifts that are not allowed to flourish. Some of us feel we have no voice. Others of us have no idea what we would say if we did. Ruth Haley Barton believes that what lies underneath a...

“I’m tired of helping others enjoy God―I just want to enjoy God for myself.” With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership explores topics such as • responding to the dynamics of calling • facing the loneliness of leadership • leading from your aut…

The journey to a meaningful sabbath practice is slow and gradual, and it is a journey we need to take in community. Sharing her own story of practicing sabbath for the past twenty years, Ruth Haley Barton offers hard-won wisdom regarding the rhythms of sabbath, exploring both weekly sabbath keeping as well as extended periods of sabbatical time. In our frenzied culture, the possibility of living in balanced rhythms of work and rest often feels elusive. This rings especially true for pastors and...

“I’m tired of helping others enjoy God―I just want to enjoy God for myself.” With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership explores topics such as • responding to the dynamics of calling • facing the loneliness of leadership • leading from your authenti…

Can't make it to your church library? This massive collection of resources will allow you to dive into Bible study and devotional reading with some of the greatest Christian writers of all time, such as Andrew Murray, Charles Spurgeon, R.A. Torrey, and more! Plus, you get the added benefit of a completely digital library—no more rummaging through print books looking for that favorite quote or Bible passage. This library includes: Audio Bibles Commentaries Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias Devotionals Theological works Several English Bible translations And more

When we experience frustrations in daily life, we often hold ourselves to blame. Self-criticism is often our default setting. But we can practice disciplines of self-kindness. In this book, editor and spiritual director Cindy Bunch calls us to self-care through greater compassion for ourselves. When we experience frustrations in daily life, we often hold ourselves to blame. Self-criticism is often our default setting. But we can have a more gracious posture toward ourselves. We can practice dis...