We have many different aspects of our lives that are our seperate in some reguard, but connected and interacting with each other at the same time.  The spiritual disciplines can help each different aspect of our human being come under the control of our spirit. Fasting helps our body, specificially our appetite learn that it…

Much of our faith development in churches involves talking, strategizing, developing a plan. We talk alot about what God wants us to do. Like sitting in a locker room, but never playing the game. Most of the time we don’t even make it to practice. Spiritual disciplines are like practice. We wouldn’t expect a very…

Often our best answer to grow spiritually is to try harder.  We would think it crazy if someone who had never played an instrument stepped on stage trying to play a difficult piece and kept saying I will try harder.  The audience would be waiting for hours.  Dallas Willard says the Disciplines simply help us…

I have been curious about how people change. Part of my education has been spent in the camp setting learning why camp can be such an effective change agent in people’s lives.  One of the terms that I have learned is ‘disequalibrium’. This is the idea of taking people out of their comfort zone.  It…