Book Review: Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Spiritual Healing. Spiritual Healing is the use of spiritual or religious practices to help the healing process. Rebbie Straubing is the Official Guide to Spiritual Healing. Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us, by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, is a valuable resource for people interested in Spiritual Practices and it is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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We have good desires-for a more intimate prayer life, perhaps, or deeper insight from God's Word-but we don't know how to get there. So we give up our pursuit, tired from wandering aimlessly, and end up feeling guilty and more distant from God instead of closer.

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In the Spiritual Disciplines Handbook Adele Calhoun gives us directions for our journey toward intimacy with Christ. While the word discipline may make us want to run and hide, the author shows how desires and discipline work together to lead us to the transformation we're longing for-the transformation only Christ can bring. Instead of just giving information about spiritual disciplines, this Handbook is full of practical, accessible guidance that helps you actually do them.

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Mothers, fathers, plumbers, nurses, students-we're all on a journey. And spiritual disciplines are for all of us who desire to know Christ deeply and be like him. Here is direction for our desire, leading us to the ultimate destination: more of Christ himself.