Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation (Transforming Resources) - Hardcover

Barton, Ruth Haley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0830833331 ISBN 13: 9780830833337

Publisher: IVP, 2006

• Winner of a 2006 Logos Book Award

Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God? Do you desire a greater intimacy with God? Do you wonder how you might truly live your life as God created you to live it? Spiritual disciplines are activities that open us to God's transforming love and the changes that only God can bring about in our lives. Picking up on the monastic tradition of creating a "rule of life" that allows for regular space for the practice of the spiritual disciplines, this book takes you more deeply into understanding seven key disciplines along with practical ideas for weaving them into everyday life. Each chapter includes exercises to help you begin the practices--individually and in a group context. The final chapter puts it all together in a way that will help you arrange your life for spiritual transformation. The choice to establish your own sacred rhythm is the most important choice you can make with your life.

From the Publisher:

Features & Benefits

* Introduces seven spiritual practices to transform you

* Shows how to change the rhythm of your life to incorporate spiritual practices

* Provides not more information but the coaching to begin and stick with spiritual practices

* Includes exercises at the end of each chapter to get you started

From the Author:

What is the significance of the phrase "sacred rhythms"?

Ruth Haley Barton: The phrase "spiritual rhythms" is a way of talking about the traditional Christian practice of establishing a rule of life—an intentional arrangement of spiritual practices, attitudes and relationships by which I regularly and routinely make myself available for God’s work of transformation in my life. I have come to enjoy the language of rhythms because it provides relief from some of the more heavy-handed and rigid approaches to the spiritual life and instead draws upon the beauty and delight of the natural rhythms in the created order. The rhythms of the tide, the seasons, night and day, the beat in a good piece of music all connote beauty, variety, spontaneity, and yet there is also some basic understanding and mastery required (in the case of playing music or dancing in particular) to give oneself fully to it.

• Publisher: IVP
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0830833331
• ISBN 13: 9780830833337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192