Download or read book Aiming at Maturity written by Stephen W. Rankin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems that much of American Christianity has lost sight of the goal of growing to maturity in Christ. This loss of vision has had serious consequences for the quality of our witness and ministry. In Aiming at Maturity, Steven W. Rankin seeks to bring back into focus key qualities of spiritual maturity and summarizes important biblical passages to show the scriptural foundations that call for spiritual maturity. Rankin also addresses certain tendencies in popular Christian culture to reduce doctrinal truths to sound bites with the laudable but counterproductive goal to make doctrine memorable, therefore applicable. Thinking more expansively about certain key doctrines related to the work of Christ and the impact of grace contributes to growth toward maturity in a way that popular descriptions of these doctrines do not. Finally, Rankin also challenges readers to consider the important role of emotions in developing Christlike dispositions, which contribute toward producing the fruit of a mature Christian life. By looking at relevant modern research, Aiming at Maturity shows the inherent connection between thoughts and feelings that draw us closer to the actual biblical description of the heart.

Download or read book Growing Toward Spiritual Maturity written by Gary C. Newton and published by Crossway Bibles. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first lessons to learn as a growing Christian is how to serve. In contrast to a "me-centered" culture, Christians should not merely satisfy themselves but instead seek to emulate Jesus. Growing Toward Spiritual Maturity advocates a strategy for growing toward Christlikeness based on the actual ways that people develop. By understanding the dynamics of spiritual growth, readers are more aware of how God uses the specific circumstances of life to draw people closer to himself. Text and discussion questions help believers mature as Christians by identifying and understanding spiritual disciplines, such as Bible study, prayer, a godly lifestyle, witnessing, and using spiritual gifts. This title is one in a series being published by Crossway Books in cooperation with Evangelical Training Association. ETA provides Christian education resources for individuals, leaders and teachers, churches, Bible institutes, and other adult educational settings. With short chapters and thought-provoking questions, this book is useful for both personal study and group learning. Book jacket.

Download or read book Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity written by Neil Pembroke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three ’windows’ to spiritual maturity How can a faithful Christian avoid stagnating in their spiritual development? Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity: Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living explores effective ways in which Christian discipleship can grow in spiritual maturity. This thoughtful, integrative roadmap explains the journey through three interrelated perspectives, or ’windows,’ psychotherapeutic psychology, prayer and contemplation, and moral theology. The author uses numerous examples from everyday life to make the reflections interesting and practical. Unlike other books on Christian spirituality, this book is more challenging and sophisticated in its depth of thought. Spiritual maturity is a process that begins when a person accepts Jesus Christ as Savior, and progresses ongoing through a Christian’s life. Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity discusses in detail the challenges one must face, including the sustained, in-depth, and faithful attention to psychological wholeness, conversion to the true self, and interpersonal and social responsibility. Effective strategies are given through example and personal story, making understanding of the principles easier. This reflection on Christian maturity helps readers to focus directly on the personal issues all must face when attuning to the Spirit of Christ. Topics in Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity include: reforming the wayward self moral or guilt-based perfectionism achievement or shame-based perfectionism the two types of conversion responsibility and accountability agape and the loving of oneself three virtues at the heart of the responsible life—integrity, courage, and compassion virtues as habits the relationship between personal fulfillment and the Christian vocation Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity is a unique look at the path toward spiritual maturity, and is challenging, thoughtful reading for laypersons, ministers, priests, and theological students.

Download or read book Christian Maturity written by Rick C. Howard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Revised Edition written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Navigate Evangelical Feminism In a society where gender roles are a hot-button topic, the church is not immune to the controversy. In fact, the church has wrestled with varying degrees of evangelical feminism for decades. As evangelical feminism has crept into the church, time-trusted resources like Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood help remind Christians of what the Bible has to say. In this edition of the award-winning best seller, more than 20 influential men and women such as John Piper, Wayne Grudem, D. A. Carson, and Elisabeth Elliot offer thought-provoking essays responding to the challenge egalitarianism poses to life in the church and in the home. Covering topics like role distinctions in the church, how biblical manhood and womanhood should work out in practice, and women in the history of the church, this helpful resource will help readers learn to orient their beliefs with God's unchanging word in an ever-changing culture.

Download or read book 8 Steps to Spiritual Maturity written by Robert Hanson and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's steps to spiritual maturity take into account the main spiritualand theological aspects of a Christian life as defined by Peter's words in IIPeter 1:5-9. (Christianity & Daily Life)

Download or read book Higher Ground written by Steve Brestin and published by Shaw Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study guide is designed to help you in your walk toward Christian maturity. If you are hungering and thristing, you are already on the threshold of higher ground.

Download or read book Christian Maturity and Development written by Rev. M.S. Johnson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will hop anyone and everyone who wants a closer walk with God. It is designed to help both young and mature Christians to receive power Through the Holy Spirit to enable them to move forward in their calling. Behold l will send you the promise of the Father, but wait until the Holy Spirit fills you with power. Luke 24:49. The spirit-filled believers are like a natural family with a name peculiar to that family, This peculiarity comprises the genes, The blood and the family name

Download or read book Maturing in Christ Instructor s Guide written by Grace Bible & Seminary and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-07 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian maturity is the aim of every believer and the goal is to reach "the very height of Christ's full stature" (Ephesians 4:13). This course teaches that although we cannot become completely like Christ, we are to reach for this highest of goals that the Bible sets for us, since this will enable us to achieve more than accomplishing a goal that is too low.

Download or read book Christianity Unbound written by Sr. Kevin Wm. M. Henley and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maturity is not based on age but on attitude, life experiences, and expectations. Because of this there are adults who have no maturity; quite often they are the athletes and the celebrities of our society. Society is stunned by their pouting and random acts of immaturity, but it is only because they have not had the opportunity to mature in the face of living catered lives. And unless they are forced to do so, they will not mature. Society has given them this option; God does not give Christian men and women this same option. God's mandate to Christian men and women is to lead lives that are in constant pursuit of spiritual maturity.

Download or read book CULTIVATING SPIRITUAL MATURITY written by Lalitha Thomas and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-needed message of this book is that spiritual practice is not a weekend hobby or an activity for adolescent seekers (of any age). Instead, Lalitha makes a case for mature spirituality, which evolves from a serious commitment to the Path, and assumes dignity, integrity and personal responsibility for one’s life choices. She proposes a series of “questions that matter”. . . including: • What Path Are You Really On? • What Are You Seriously Committed to? • What Do You Call Love? • Are You on Your Deathbed? The playing field of spiritual maturity can never be separate from one’s everyday life—one’s work, relationships, art, physical limits, suffering, aging and dying—Lalitha affirms. And, it will always reflect a sacred regard for the highest principles (one’s aim), along with gratitude for what is, and kindness, generosity and compassion toward others. Lalitha is a spiritual teacher and a farmer—her ashram in BC is also a working organic farm. She knows the disciplined efforts needed to prepare a ground for planting, to nurture and maintain young shoots, to guard against predators and to harvest a mature crop. As a long-term spiritual practitioner, she has worked with students for over twenty years. She knows the risks, the sweat and the fruits of the spiritual path. Full of practical help, her book cites dozens of examples relative to spiritual authority, doubt and confusion, a life of practice, and the facing and embracing of death . . . as well as other issues that matter! She is the author of Waking to Ordinary Life, and several books on health and healing.

Download or read book Ten Basic Steps Toward Christian Maturity written by Bill Bright and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Spiritual Maturity written by Bruce Baker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Chafer's He That is Spiritual guided the Christian in spiritual growth, but it remains out of reach for many modern believers who struggle with the 1918 text or no longer have the general Bible knowledge that the book assumes. Now, Spiritual Maturity: The Road to Wonderland brings those same critical lessons prefaced by quotes and illustrations from Lewis Carroll's timeless tales. Interwoven throughout the text is Christine, a fictional character, whose life and questions mirror those of today's reader. We need to be sure we are walking in the direction and in the manner God would choose. And on any journey, a map-correctly understood-can be enormously helpful. Thankfully, God has provided us one. Designed for individual and/or classroom use with study questions for each chapter.

Download or read book Be Mature James written by Warren W. Wiersbe and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps of all the books in the New Testament, James most squarely focuses on results. His pull-no-punches approach to spiritual maturity, his preference for action over words, makes his text the perfect backdrop for a study of how to grow in our faith. Beloved author and teacher, Warren Wiersbe, leads you through this practical book with advice on how to overcome temptation, controlling the tongue, effective prayer, and how to practice what the Bible teaches. If you're going to make progress in these areas, you will need a growing faith and dependence on Christ because as James claims, "Every good and perfect gift is from above." Now with study questions and updated foreword by Ken Baugh, Be Mature makes the perfect guide through your study of James. Trust Warren Wiersbe's 40+ years of experience to instruct you on important truths from God's Word.

Download or read book Steadfast and Immovable written by Robert L. Millet and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 1992 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aim Small Miss Small written by Mark Hasenyager and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "True spiritual maturity is freedom, adventure, fullness of life! To lack it is to miss out on what life could be; to live life incomplete." -Mark Hasenyager You know you're supposed to be progressing spiritually, and you long to live a life where you're not just going through the motions, merely surviving. Christ came to give you an abundant, victorious life; one in which you thrive in a personal relationship with Him, but are you missing the mark? Do you even know what you're shooting for? Aim Small, Miss Small written by pastor Mark Hasenyager uses the clear objectives from God's Word to "sight-in" spiritual victory; giving you a way to measure, develop and experience the blessings of spiritual maturity. No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, applying the principles in this book will give you the strategies you need, through the power of God, to thrive; bringing Him glory and you victory. Author Bio: Mark Hasenyager is the founding pastor of Outdoorsmen Church in Missoula, Montana, which focuses on breaking down the barriers preventing Montanans from seeking Christ. Mark connects the passion he and Montanans share for the great outdoors with his passion for Christ and making Him known. In March of 2013, Mark founded Multiply Northwest, a church planting center that seeks to develop effective spiritual leaders who will start culturally relevant new works in the Northwest. Find out more at www.outdoorsmenchurch.com and www.multiplynorthwest.com.

Download or read book Your Journey to Spiritual Maturity Volume I The Fool written by Reginald D. Bernard and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Journey to Spiritual Maturity begins with Volume I - The Fool. Your Journey to Spiritual Maturity is the answer for the searching soul who wants to getoff the well-worn path of spiritual apathy and indifference. Pastor Bernard leans heavily on Scripture as he provides spiritual guidance using real life examples from his years of inner-city ministry experience. The club scene, sexual issues, idolatry and even the worldly church are all discussed from the perpective of spiritual growth. Your Journey to Spiritual Maturity, Volume I - The Fool is the first step towards spiritual formation and may be used as a self study guide or in small groups. A Reflection Guide is included to help you measure your growth from Volume I - The Fool.