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Many people are longing to find the footprint of God in their daily lives. This beautiful daily companion is comprised of 365 selections of scripture, commentary, meditations, and daily exercises to help readers see how they can bring their entire life into a life with Immanuel - a God who is with his people.
In Richard Fosters best-selling book, Celebration of Discipline, he explored the classic disciplines, or central spiritual practices of the Christian faith. Foster showed that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found. In A Year with God, the spiritual disciplines are presented in such a way that does not destroy the soul but enables the reader to enter into a transforming life with God.
Through daily spiritual exercises and meditations, A Year with God explores eighteen spiritual disciplines. The inward disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service help prepare one to make the world a better place. The corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration bring one nearer to others and to God. Each discipline will be given twenty days of readings, beginning with scripture and followed by commentary, a meditation, and a spiritual exercise. Practicing these spiritual disciplines will help readers live intentionally, contributing to a more balanced spiritual life and a reformation of the inner self.
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RICHARD J. FOSTER is the author of several bestselling books, including Celebration of Discipline, Streams of Living Water, Life with God, and Prayer, which was Christianity Todays Book of the Year and the winner of the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is the founder of RENOVAR, an organization and a movement committed to the renewal of the church of Jesus Christ in all its multifaceted expressions, and the editor of The Life with God Bible. Visit the RENOVAR website at www.renovare.us.
JULIA L. ROLLER is the project editor for The Life with God Bible and coauthor of Connecting with God, Learning from Jesus, Living the Mission, and Prayer and Worship. She lives with her husband and son in San Diego, California. Visit her online at www.juliaroller.com.
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Connecting with God
by Lynda L. Graybeal and Julia L. Roller
Contemplative Compassion
by Sarah Butler Berlin
Devotional Classics
co-edited by Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith
Embracing the Love of God
by James Bryan Smith
Learning from Jesus
by Lynda L. Graybeal and Julia L. Roller
Life with God
by Richard J. Foster with Kathryn A. Helmers
The Life with God Bible
edited by Richard J. Foster and others
Living the Mission
by Lynda L. Graybeal and Julia L. Roller
Prayer and Worship
by Lynda L. Graybeal and Julia L. Roller
Spiritual Classics
co-edited by Richard J. Foster and Emilie Griffin
A Spiritual Formation Workbook
by James Bryan Smith with Lynda L. Graybeal
Streams of Living Water
by Richard J. Foster
Wilderness Time
by Emilie Griffin
Before beginning a fast, you should consult a qualified medical professional. The author and publisher expressly disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects arising from fasting.
The scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible. Copyright 1989, 1993 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
We gratefully acknowledge the collections Personal Prayers of Christians Through the Centuries, compiled by David Schubert, and Hear Our Prayer, compiled by Olivia Warburton, for some of the public domain prayers used in this book.
Further acknowledgments can be found on and constitutes as a continuation of this copyright page.
A YEAR WITH GOD: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines. Copyright 2009 by RENOVAR, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A Year with God / Richard J. Foster, General Editor; compiled by Julia L. Roller 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 9780061768200
EPub Edition March 2016 ISBN 9780062565273
1. SpiritualityMeditations. 2. Christian lifeMeditations.
I. Foster, Richard J. II. Roller, Julia L.
BV4501.3.Y43 2009
242.2dc22
2009020271
09 10 11 12 13 RRD (H) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Cover photograph: Thea Schrack
Spiritual formation is writ large across the pages of Scriptureso large, in fact, that its often easy to miss it altogether. In C.S. Lewiss The Silver Chair, from The Chronicles of Narnia, Eustace and Jill search for a sign in a ruined city of giants, but are disheartened to find themselves wandering through a confusing maze of rock trenches without uncovering any message. The following morning, while looking out from a high window, they are astounded to see the words UNDER ME carved in huge, deep letters on the stony hillsideand they suddenly realize they had spent the previous day stumbling through the very words they had been seeking. They had simply lacked the vantage point from which to read the sign.
Some of us experience the same problem reading the Bible. We have become accustomed to examining the text through a microscope: seeking the underlying principles of key passages, making a focused examination of the structure of individual sentences, delving deeply into the original meaning of Greek and Hebrew words. This detailed study can be wonderful, but it also has its limitations. Many of the Bibles greatest themes are seen only in the sweeping landscape of the divine story; they are expressed more in vistas than in verses. To catch sight of these themes we need a different perspective, a shift in viewpoint. Rather than a microscope, we need a mountaintop.
A Year with God provides that vantage point. This twelve-month journey through Scripture reintroduces us to the great characters, passages, and themes of Scripture and helps us understand how they consistently reveal and illuminate Gods passion to renew us in the likeness of Jesus Christ. One by one we look at some of the key practices and disciplines through which we are able to throw our lives open to the transforming grace of God: practices such as prayer, worship, study, confession, silence, simplicity, and celebration. We learn how to intentionally trim our sails to catch the wind of the Spirit, and so find ourselves taken in wholly new and unexpected directions. And in the spiritual renewal we experience as a result, we find ourselves becoming in every aspect a dwelling place of God.
Along the way we are reminded of the great high points of the biblical story: the creation and the fall, the exodus and the conquest, the judges and the monarchs, the prophets and the exile, the coming of the Messiah and the birth of the Churchand, of course, a look ahead to the great day of Christs return. At each point, we see how God has been working to create, as expressed in
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