The Three Lights of Divine Guidance
F. B. Meyer was a famous London pastor of the 19th Century who led the English speaking world into the “Deeper Life” in Christ. His…
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Confessions of Longing for God
I often write about devotion to God, not because I’m devoted to God, but because I desire to be more so! I long to long…
Confessions of Sin
One of the most important spiritual exercises we can do is confessing our sins to God. To confess sin is to speak the truth to…
Jesus is My Heaven
Recently I read a line from Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love that so warmed my heart with a longing to be close to Jesus…
Alert to God, Content with Not Knowing
In making decisions we want to know what God’s will for us is. Which job is the best one for you to take? Is that…
At the Cross of Christ with Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich writes, “It seemed to me that I could feel the Passion of Christ strongly, but yet I longed by God’s grace to…
A Deeper Life in Christ is Holy and Happy
Yesterday on my Sabbath day I read a little book by the early 19th Century Scottish preacher Robert Murray McCheyne, The Deeper Life. He died…
John Wesley’s Prayer of Consecration
One of the most helpful things I have done in life over the years is to take heart from the devotion of the great ones…
Four Degrees of Love (Bernard of Clairvaux)
“Love is the fountain of life, and the soul which does not drink from it cannot be called alive.” These are the ancient words of Bernard…
Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship
This sample reading log on Spiritual Friendship by Aelred of Rievaulx is like the ones that participants complete in our Soul Shepherding TLC program. (A reading log is a…