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Archive for October, 2009

Why Praise is Critical to Our Prayer Life

Posted in Devotional Prayer, Intercessory Prayer, tagged , , , on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In my early days of learning about prayer I heard people talk about the ACTS acronym for the stages of a prayer life: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. It made sense to me but for some reason I always wanted to skip the Adoration part and get on with the rest of the process! To [...]

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Prayer and Rest in a Frantic Culture

Posted in Devotional Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, tagged , , , on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

For the past few weeks we have had some friends living with us who have just returned from teaching english in South Korea. In our discussions about the differences between Korean and Canadian culture I was especially interested to learn that in general, Korean culture is considerably busier and faster paced than Canadian culture. Apparently [...]

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A Training Program for Your Spiritual Life

Posted in General Discipleship, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For most of my life I have been involved in long distance running. As with many a runner, my commitment was sporatic and changed from season to season.  A few years ago all that changed and I began to take up running quite seriously. I joined a running club and met a number of people [...]

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A Tailored Approach to Spiritual Growth

Posted in General Discipleship, tagged , , , on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In my last post I introduced the idea of a training program for your spiritual life. I developed some themes based on parallels with my training program for long distance running. Today I want to look at the idea of a spiritual training program needing to be tailored specifically to each individual. My running program [...]

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