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Flourishing With Friends: How Spiritual Classics Can Help Us Finish Well In Ministry, Hank Voss Jul 2023

Flourishing With Friends: How Spiritual Classics Can Help Us Finish Well In Ministry, Hank Voss

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Reading Spiritual Classics Together: How To Facilitate A Sacred Roots Study Group, Hank Voss Jul 2023

Reading Spiritual Classics Together: How To Facilitate A Sacred Roots Study Group, Hank Voss

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Apprenticing Ourselves To Wise Mentors: Pastor Al's (D. 1167) Paradigmatic Vision For "Spiritual" Friendship, Hank Voss Apr 2023

Apprenticing Ourselves To Wise Mentors: Pastor Al's (D. 1167) Paradigmatic Vision For "Spiritual" Friendship, Hank Voss

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Evangelical Ressourcement: How Retrieving Our Sacred Roots Can Renew And Refocus The Global Evangelical Movement, Don Davis Mar 2023

Evangelical Ressourcement: How Retrieving Our Sacred Roots Can Renew And Refocus The Global Evangelical Movement, Don Davis

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The Necessity Of Monastic Asceticism: A Case For Retrieval In Contemporary Evangelicalism, Greg Peters Jan 2023

The Necessity Of Monastic Asceticism: A Case For Retrieval In Contemporary Evangelicalism, Greg Peters

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Within the contemporary evangelical church, there is often little discussion of asceticism despite an emphasis on spiritual disciplines and formation. This article argues that not only does the evangelical church need to embrace and adopt ascetic practices, but these should be based in monastic asceticism, based around the practices of poverty, chastity and obedience. The article first puts forward suggestions as to why the evangelical church does not embrace asceticism, in spite of it being part of its heritage, but then moves to a constructive argument, using an array of ecumenical sources, demonstrating that a monastic asceticism is a biblical …


First Christian Voices: Practices Of The Apostolic Fathers, Michael T. Cooper Jan 2023

First Christian Voices: Practices Of The Apostolic Fathers, Michael T. Cooper

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

What were the most important practices in the early church? In this volume, Michael Cooper arranges the writings of the Apostolic Fathers into eight themes that provide deeper understanding about the subjects important to the disciples of the New Testament apostles.

First Christian Voices examines the written testimonies of the late first and second centuries to discover what animated the church in the face of internal and external struggles and growth as the gospel extended to the boundaries of the Roman Empire.


Mission With Prophetic Power: The Journal Of John Woolman, Evan B. Howard, John Woolman Jan 2023

Mission With Prophetic Power: The Journal Of John Woolman, Evan B. Howard, John Woolman

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

In Mission with Prophetic Power, Evan Howard introduces us to his good friend John Woolman (1720–1772). In this autobiographical record of his life, Woolman describes his charismatic, contemplative, and evangelical spirituality as he practiced a lifestyle of fair trade (justice) and minimalism (simplicity). Encounter testimonies of the “operations of divine love” in Woolman’s record of the goodness of God.


The Necessity Of Monastic Asceticism: A Case For Retrieval In Contemporary Evangelicalism, Greg Peters Nov 2022

The Necessity Of Monastic Asceticism: A Case For Retrieval In Contemporary Evangelicalism, Greg Peters

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Piety And Politics: The Relationship Between Holiness, Spiritual Formation, And Socio-Political Engagement, Evan Howard Nov 2022

Piety And Politics: The Relationship Between Holiness, Spiritual Formation, And Socio-Political Engagement, Evan Howard

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I Am In The King’S Highway, The Way Of Holiness’: John Bunyan’S The Pilgrim’S Progress, Andy Draycott Nov 2022

I Am In The King’S Highway, The Way Of Holiness’: John Bunyan’S The Pilgrim’S Progress, Andy Draycott

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A Plain Account Of Christian Perfection, Matt Friedeman Nov 2022

A Plain Account Of Christian Perfection, Matt Friedeman

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Discovering Sacred Roots; Discipleship As Apprenticeship, Hank Voss Apr 2022

Discovering Sacred Roots; Discipleship As Apprenticeship, Hank Voss

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Spiritual Friendship: Learning To Be Friends With God And One Another, Hank Voss Apr 2022

Spiritual Friendship: Learning To Be Friends With God And One Another, Hank Voss

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

Aelred’s Spiritual Friendship focuses on being God’s friend expressed through three conversations with different friends. Aelred draws upon his friendships both with contemporaries and with authors who lived centuries before. This work provides an antidote to our contemporary milieu which, though replete with unremitting communications, propels toward individualism, autonomy, and loneliness. What Spiritual Friendship affords is a guide toward “holy and life-giving” friendships fruitfully marked by joy and happiness.

Professor Hank Voss amplifies a voice from the 12th century that explored Christian friendship in Scripture, in creation (reason), in church teachings (tradition), and in his own practice of spiritual friendship …


Books Jesus Read: Learning From The Apocrypha, Robert F. Lay Jan 2022

Books Jesus Read: Learning From The Apocrypha, Robert F. Lay

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

In Books Jesus Read, Robert Lay takes his readers on a guided tour of the Apocrypha—Jewish history, stories, and wisdom written in the four hundred years between the Old and New Testaments. These are some of the writings Jesus and other first century Jews would have known. For anyone wanting to better understand Jesus and the New Testament, look no further than the books Jesus himself may have read.

This book provides a wonderful service in making the OT Apocrypha accessible to non-specialists. These ancient Jewish texts are rich devotionally, and they provide essential background for the proper interpretation …


Praying Together In Unity, Greg Peters Apr 2021

Praying Together In Unity, Greg Peters

White Papers

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Becoming A Community Of Disciples: Guidelines From Abbot Benedict And Bishop Basil, Greg Peters Jan 2021

Becoming A Community Of Disciples: Guidelines From Abbot Benedict And Bishop Basil, Greg Peters

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

The Rules of Benedict and Basil show us how to live in community with one another. Though written for monasteries over 1500 years ago, these Rules contain timeless wisdom about Christian community.

Greg Peters has combined and reorganized the Rule of Benedict and the Rule of Basil for modern readers so that we too can meditate on, enjoy, and apply the insights of two of the most influential Christians ever to have lived.


Praying The Psalms With Augustine And Friends, Carmen Joy Imes Jan 2021

Praying The Psalms With Augustine And Friends, Carmen Joy Imes

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

The Psalms teach us how to pray. Many saints over the past three millennia have come near to God by praying the Psalms, and this volume introduces us to some of their greatest thoughts on them.

Covering all 150 psalms, this companion to the "Prayerbook of the Bible" contains key devotional readings from the Great Tradition as well as space for journaling our own prayers. This book will help us learn to pray as Jesus prayed—after all, He quoted from the Psalms more often than any other book.


Christian Mission And Poverty: Wisdom From 2,000 Years Of Church Leaders, Andrew T. Draper Jan 2021

Christian Mission And Poverty: Wisdom From 2,000 Years Of Church Leaders, Andrew T. Draper

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

Christianity is the faith of the poor. As Christians, we worship the Lord Jesus Christ, who “though he was rich, yet for your sake became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich” (2 Cor 8:9). This same Jesus taught his followers that the kingdom of heaven belongs to “you who are poor” and “the poor in spirit” (Luke 6:20; Matt 5:3). He also proclaimed that judgment before his throne will hinge on how his followers treated those who were hungry, thirsty, strangers, unclothed, sick, and in prison—the ones he calls “the least of these my brothers” (Matt …


Biblical Friendship In Historical, Theological, And Practical Perspective: Aelred As Paradigmatic Model For Christian Friendship, Hank Voss May 2020

Biblical Friendship In Historical, Theological, And Practical Perspective: Aelred As Paradigmatic Model For Christian Friendship, Hank Voss

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Spiritual Classics, Retrieval Theology, And The Cure Of Souls, Hank Voss Feb 2020

Spiritual Classics, Retrieval Theology, And The Cure Of Souls, Hank Voss

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Ministry Leaders With Spiritual Friends: Retrieving The Great Tradition’S Wealth For Nextgen Church Leaders, Hank Voss Jan 2020

Ministry Leaders With Spiritual Friends: Retrieving The Great Tradition’S Wealth For Nextgen Church Leaders, Hank Voss

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Poor Pastors With Rich Friends: Retrieving The Great Tradition’S Wealth To Serve The Poor, Hank Voss Dec 2019

Poor Pastors With Rich Friends: Retrieving The Great Tradition’S Wealth To Serve The Poor, Hank Voss

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Spiritual Friendship In The Works Of Ambrose, Augustine, Aelred: Retrieving The Wealth Of The Great Tradition In Service To The Evangelical Poor, Hank Voss Nov 2019

Spiritual Friendship In The Works Of Ambrose, Augustine, Aelred: Retrieving The Wealth Of The Great Tradition In Service To The Evangelical Poor, Hank Voss

2019 Evangelical Theological Society

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Toward Ten Thousand Tozers: Using Spiritual Classics To Strengthen The Souls Of Congregational Leaders, Hank Voss Aug 2019

Toward Ten Thousand Tozers: Using Spiritual Classics To Strengthen The Souls Of Congregational Leaders, Hank Voss

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The Uca Can Change The Usa’: Using Spiritual Classics To Strengthen The Soul Of Urban Church Planters, Hank Voss Aug 2019

The Uca Can Change The Usa’: Using Spiritual Classics To Strengthen The Soul Of Urban Church Planters, Hank Voss

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The Use Of Spiritual Classics As A Resource For The Ongoing Formation Of Congregational Leaders With Special Reference To The Middle East, Hank Voss Jan 2019

The Use Of Spiritual Classics As A Resource For The Ongoing Formation Of Congregational Leaders With Special Reference To The Middle East, Hank Voss

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Holiness And The Greek Tongue, Newton Wray Jan 1930

Holiness And The Greek Tongue, Newton Wray

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The advent of Jesus Christ occurred at a date described as "the fulness of time," signifying not only an hour for the fulfillment of prophecy but also that providential preparation which predisposed to the reception of Christianity and facilitated its spread among men.

The factors in this preparation may be included under four general heads:

1. The moral state of the world.
2. The Roman Empire.
3. The Greek language.
4. The location of Jewish Synagogues everywhere.