Spiritual Formation Posts 2011

Here are posts I made in 2011 on the broad theme of Christian Spirituality. Which means things like: spiritual formation, spiritual renewal, spiritual transformation, spiritual restoration (all these terms are different!), corporate spirituality, discernment, cultural discernment, spirituality and the church, and some others.

Live Unveiled Before God

Psalm 23:1

Either Deep Change or Slow Death

Spiritual People are More Resilient

What It Means to Be "Led By the Spirit"

Get a Grip Off Life

Created Things Cannot Fill the Abyss of Interior Solitude

5 Key Aspects of a Pentecostal Worldview

"Testimony" as "The Poetry of Pentecostal Experience"

Jesus Never Called Us to Be Comfortable

Points of No Return

I Had a Religious Experience (A Few Thoughts)

How the Prophetic Voice Increases

Self-Love as Boredom

Some Meditations on LOVE

All Relevant "Doing" Comes From Abiding

Self-Control

Everyone's Heart Is an Inner Cupboard

The Dialectic Between the Words of Men and Their Being

The "Kindness Circle"

Avail Yourself of the God Positioning System

"Grace" As the Concrete Manifestation of the Activity of God

The "World" As a "Systematic Sham"

Influence

The Absence of the Feeling of God

Church: The More People, the Less Truth

Don't Protect the False Self

Jimmy's Dream

Still Learning... 1 Corinthians 3:10-17

Look Past the Face Into the Heart

Release From Addiction to Control

Give Yourself to the Timeless Issues of the Human Spirit

A Pentecostal Epistemology Privileges Aisthesis Before Noesis

The Primacy of Worship Before Mission

N.T. Wright on Divine Character Formation

Influence Doesn't Need to Make a Personal Appearance

God Helps By Giving Himself

Be Annihilated for God's Glory

Focus on Influence, Not Size

Where There Is Life, Build Structure

You Don't Have to Advertise a Fire

Rejecting "Church" as an Entertainment Center

There Are No Critics In the Revolution

On Not Being My Own Providence

The Fool: A Personal Example

When Your Plans Change

Expectation, Hope, and Promise

The Dialectical Movement from Solitude to Community

Living in the Place of Constant Deburdening (When Your Mind Wanders in Prayer)

Why People Try to Control Others

No One Is Uncontaminated

Self-Exaltation is Bad; Humility is Good

Repression, Addiction, and the Return to Love

The Way of Escape & the Two Options of Choice

The Logic of Self-Control

Swimming In the Attributes of God

Eternity From the Jesus POV

Freedom Is For Something

Deepen the Life You Already Possess

Living Above our Illnesses

The Non-localized Glory of God

Our Vocation Is: Royal Priesthood

Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled

Love is Kind

Spiritual Maturity - It Takes a Lifetime

The Garden of My Heart That Is Jesus

A Cruciformed Life: Don't Expect to Be Crowned With Glory By the World

Doing Worship Reps In the Spiritual Gymnasium

Love Is Our Measure

We Need More Repetitive Worship (Tribal Worship Was 7-11 Worship)

Never Abandon Your Loved Ones

Community - Healthy; Loneliness - Unhealthy

Labor Under God

On Pride and Humility

Freedom Is Not Anarchic

Desiring to Be a Saint

Gliding Forward Even While We Sleep

The Need for Authentic, Caring Community

Inner Peace Is Not Circumstantial (Solitude Is a Deepening of the Present)

What "Church" Is

Protective Love Can Cause Withdrawal Pains

Love Always Protects

Enter the World of Non-text

Adoratio, Ergo Sum

Market-Driven Churches Attract Consumers, Not Disciples

Holy Nothingness As the Precondition for Divine Everythingness

Real "Church" Is Not a Personal Need-Meeting Machine

Unforgettable Words of Love

If You're Not Heavenly Minded You'll Be No Earthly Good

The Spiritual Life Consists of Practicing God's Presence

"Church" Was Never Intended to "Meet Your Needs"

Reject Performance-Based Churches

Open the Present

Eating With Jesus as Entering the Kingdom

It's About Influence, Not Size

Who Are You?

Bridge the Gap

Don't Cling to This Life

Spiritual Formation and the Reversal of Romans 7:19

Resolution

Where Work Finds Its Ultimate Meaning

Miroslav Volf On the Meaning of Work

"Follow Me"

The Lie of Ontological Uniqueness (and the Real Meaning of Christmas)

Langdon Gilkey on Holiness

Because He Lives, I Can Face Today

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See also:

Spiritual Formation Posts - 2010

Posts On Christian Spirituality - 2004-2009