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		<title>Praying with Scripture: A Contemplative Way of in Our Spiritual Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spiritual direction is a process by which one person assists another in becoming increasingly aware of the action of the Holy Spirit in one’s life. This “assistance” often involves the simple encouragement to slow down and become more aware of God and his love. With the aid of a director—better known as a traveling companion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplation: No Better Place to Be than with God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a sense God was inviting me up there, inviting me to stop being mad at him. I couldn’t talk about it to anyone. After the sessions, I stayed in the chapel to gaze. I shut my eyes, knowing the window and the trees were there. No words. No tears. When I got home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Disciplines as a Means of Grace – A Conversation Between Richard J. Foster and Dallas Willard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early ’70s, Richard J. Foster began to pastor a small congregation, Woodlake Avenue Church, in Canoga Park, California. One of his Sunday school teachers was a professor at a nearby university. His name was Dallas Willard. Together they began to equip a ragtag bunch of would-be saints—many coming from the counter-culture—and experiment with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiencing the Grace of God and the God of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siang-Yang Tan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grace. It’s a deep word, loaded with many meanings and experiences. It’s a word that is  intimately and eternally related to God. When I think about grace, it is inevitably linked to the God of grace and the grace of God (e.g., see Ephesians 1:6, 7; 2:8, 9; 1 Peter 5:10). Before relating some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Community of the Broken: Finding Intimacy through Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Hougen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I asked if anyone wanted to read, her hand timidly went up. She had chosen John 8 for her writing assignment—the woman caught in adultery—and focused on the passage&#8217;s details: the condemning crowd, the frightened woman, and Jesus&#8217; question once everyone had dispersed. Then the words turned inward. It was evident the student had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment of Spirits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annemarie Paulin-Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A metaphor that helps me understand the discernment of spirits is that of dance. From the time I could walk until I was in my early twenties, I studied classical ballet for many hours each day. At a certain point in our training, when our own dancing was quite established, we began to work with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Figures in the Fog: Thomas a Kempis on Discernment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding one’s way in the spiritual life is like wandering around in the fog. Sometimes you see figures moving ahead, sometimes you hear people talking behind, but you haven’t a clue where you are. It’s a strange city, and what you need desperately is a guide. Fortunately, in the history of Christian spirituality, there have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gifts of Freedom:  The Sabbath and Fasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynne Baab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost every year for ten years I stayed for a few days at a Benedictine monastery for women. During an early visit, one of the sisters told me how special Sundays are at the monastery, and over the years I observed many signs of festivity on Sundays. The sisters wore dressier clothes, the food was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pilgrim Way:  Discovering the Ancient Practice of Pilgrimage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traveling to monasteries throughout the world is a discipline for the sole and the soul. Every pilgrimage I take reminds me that this world is not my final home; I’m just a stranger passing through. Every path I tread, every arch I pass points me to a greater reality, where the God who draws us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nouwen on the Porch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Reimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a quiet moment with deafening implications. I was sitting on the enclosed porch of a 100-year-old home in a farming community near Salinas, California. Outside was a neighborhood park. The only noise was the laughter of children on playground swings and puffs of afternoon breeze off the Pacific. In my lap was Henri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got to God Like a Cigarette: Unconventional Spiritual Advice From a Surprised</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damon was a sharply dressed man in his late twenties with a look of desperation. I noticed him fidget as he stood waiting in a line of people who had just heard me speak. He asked me for prayer and an appointment to meet to talk about his life and the message I gave, “Slowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Intention Meets Attention: The Psalms as Spiritual Retreat Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Walt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two times a year, the world’s wealthiest person retreats to an undisclosed location in the Pacific Northwest for seven days to think. He calls these now famous retreats “Think Weeks.” It’s a fascinating practice. Bill Gates hops aboard a helicopter or seaplane and jets to a remote waterfront two-story cottage for a week of complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bible Stories as Mental Movies: Imaging Your Way Into Scripture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I had a time-travel machine, I would stand in the Red Sea basin and watch the surrounding spectacle of two towering walls of water. I would climb the marble steps and squint at the gleam of Solomon’s temple. I would look into Jesus’ swollen eyes as he cried over Jerusalem.God has not given us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Transforming Thorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day chronic pain entered my life has now taken an unwelcome and unwanted place in my memory alongside happiest day: my wedding day, and the birthdays of my children. The 24 hours before it came would be the last pain-free day of my (basically) comfortable 45 years and the beginning of a new life for me. A violent trespasser, its tortuous presence inhabiting my body, would always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedaling In God’s Presence</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nathan Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s ten miles to work by bike on a wooded path. Steadying my cadence, I pound out the first few miles while a confident breeze begins its arduous process of ripping the stress and worries from my scattered mind. Somewhere between miles two and four I stop asking why I didn’t drive or wear warmer [...]]]></description>
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