What is "The Spirit of the Disciplines" by Dallas Willard, about by chapter?
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Quoted from: Christianity Today\nhttp://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/september/28.49.html\n\nFor Willard, the essential disciplines for Jesus' disciples have been taught and learned for centuries.\n\n"What are they? Here's a sampling from Willard's The Spirit of the Disciplines.\n\nSolitude and, within it, silence to expose ourselves to ourselves ("What if there turns out to be very little between 'just us and God'?") and to provide a natural context in which to listen to God.\n\nFasting and, within it, meditating upon God's Word. \nFasting is "prime self-denial," a way to expose "how much of our peace depends upon the pleasures of eating." Superficial peace, too. Meditating secures in our lived experience the conviction that "we have meat to eat that the world does not know."\n\nChastity to train the eyes and the imagination—the eyes of the heart—to see God's sons and daughters as our brothers and sisters.\n\nSecrecy about doing good and being good in order to mortify pride, vivify humility, and relieve ourselves of the need to be hot stuff at Bible study. Willard helpfully adds that Christian speakers should pray for other speakers on the program, asking that these others will speak better and attract more praise than oneself. (I know that my gracious friend Dallas does this. I also know from speaking on a program with him that the prayer doesn't seem to work.)\n\nStudy of God's Word in order, as Calvin put it, "to dig up the treasures buried there" and live off them. God has put the Bible in our hands as a kind of owners' manual for tuning and running a healthy life in the kingdom. It's always wise to read the manual.\nWorship and, within it, celebration—feasting, dancing, singing at God's glad invitation—in order to mortify despair and to draw us into joyful repose in the household of God. Because we all become like the one we worship, blessed are those whose God is the Lord!\n\nDeliberate consciousness that the first heaven is the air around us, that God is alive in it, and that, bidden or unbidden, God is awfully present there. All prayer, including short prayer ("Help, Lord!"), is inescapably and gloriously local.\n\nConfession of our sins to each other as well as to God. This mortification of the old self is, of course, open to terrible abuse. Who but God can bear to know not only what I said, but also what I almost said? Still, if you confess to a friend that you lied to him, says Willard, your confession will "marvelously enhance" your ability to get it straight the next time".
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It's by Stephen Crane.  Here's the SparkNote link, too, since you don't have your book: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/redbadge/ Good luck!
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I haven't read it.  I have heard it's very good though.  It's by C.S. Lewis and is a parody-like book about a demon named Screwtape who writes to his cousin Wormwood about how to tempt Christians.  It's a pretty creative way of writing about temptations Christians have and I've always been interested in reading it since I first heard about it.\n\nFor a good synopsis of the book you can go to the book's website page on what it's about here:\n\nhttp://www.biblestudyinfo.com/screwtape/synopsis.shtml
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all that i could find is that he wrote Fictions of Us History,American Crusade, Views of Women's Lives in Western Tradition: Frontiers of the past and the Future \nsorry i couldnt be of more help
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Hello there. Funny you mention this because, as a boy, the first truly inspiring text I read was the Tao Te Ching. I still find myself reading it, at least in part, once a week. This text is so simple yet profound it put me on a path to seek out even more esoteric knowledge. I have also studied the writings of Confucius, the Vedic texts  of India, Buddhism,  Zen, Shinto, Suffic Islam, etc. All in all, the Tao really opened my eyes to a deeper understanding of things. I can read about Quantum Mechanics and sub-atomic physics and find the spiritual parallels within the science. I wish more westerners could be exposed to this. My email is viewable in profile.
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The best I know of is 'Inquiry into Life' by Sylvia Mader published by WCB/McGraw-Hill (ISBN 0-697-25181-0)
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Discipline\nby George Herbert   \n \n  THROW away Thy rod, \nThrow away Thy wrath; \n   O my God, \nTake the gentle path! \n\nFor my heart's desire \nUnto Thine is bent: \n   I aspire \nTo a full consent. \n\nNot a word or look \nI affect to own, \n   But by book, \nAnd Thy Book alone. \n\nThough I fail, I weep; \nThough I halt in pace, \n   Yet I creep \nTo the throne of grace. \n\nThen let wrath remove; \nLove will do the deed; \n   For with love \nStony hearts will bleed. \n\nLove is swift of foot; \nLove 's a man of war, \n   And can shoot, \nAnd can hit from far. \n\nWho can 'scape his bow? \nThat which wrought on Thee, \n   Brought Thee low, \nNeeds must work on me. \n\nThrow away Thy rod; \nThough man frailties hath, \n   Thou art God: \nThrow away Thy wrath! \n\nGeorge Herbert was a 16th century English poet and orator. DH Lawrence also wrote some poems about discipline, but they are somewhat lascivious in nature, and I won't reprint them at this time. Feel free to look them up -- they are readily available online or at your local library.
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I am a creature of a day. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God. I want to know one thing: the way to heaven. God himself has condescended to teach me the way. He has written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book! At any price give me the book of God. Let me be a man of one book.--John Wesley\n\nIt is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table, and say, 'This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,' I would shake my head and say, 'I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.' There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners. --R.A. Torrey\n\nThe Bible is a harp with a thousand strings. Play on one to the exclusion of its relationship to the others, and you will develop discord. Play on all of them, keeping them in their places in the divine scale, and you will hear heavenly music all the time. --William P. White
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Emma C. (Hart) Willard (February 23, 1787 - April 15, 1870), was an American women's rights advocate, and the pioneer who founded the first women's school of higher education.\n\nWillard was born Berlin, Connecticut and was the 17th child of Samuel Hart. She attended a district school at Worthington Point. Emma had started teaching at the age of 17 and shortly after turning 20, job offers from Westfield, Massachusetts, Middlebury, Vermont, and Hudson, New York. She accepted the offer from Vermont and moved there. In 1809 she married Dr. Bobert. In 1814, she opened the Middlebury Female Seminary in her home. After moving to New York she opened the Waterford Academy in 1819 in Waterford, New York, but it had to be closed in 1821 because of a lack of funding. In September, however, the city of Troy requested the school to be moved there, and Willard accepted the offer and founded the Troy Female Seminary. Afterward, as the Emma Willard School, it was notably prosperous and successful.\n\nMrs. Willard's husband died in 1825, but she continued to manage the institution until 1838, when she placed it in the hands of her son. She married Dr. Christopher C. Yates in 1838 but was divorced from him in 1843. In 1830, she made a tour of Europe, and three years later published Journal and Letters from Santa's Elves and the Easter Bunny, the proceeds from the sale of the book she gave to a school for women that she helped to found in Athens, Greece.\n\nHer works include The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases, (1823); History of the United States, (1828); Universal History in Perspective, (1837); Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood, (1846); and Last Leaves of American History, (1849).\n\nShe co-authored, "A System of Universal Geography on the Principles of Comparison an
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The Puirpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, its a very good book page by page, very motivational and enlightening words. He will be guided and directed during and after reading the book, all topics are applicable to all challenges and trial in life.\n\nAnd ofcourse, the best book of all books is The Bible.\n\nGod Bless.
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It is the sequel to Willard named Ben!\n\n♥♥We Love You Michael!!!!♥♥
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Salvation\nThe Wisdom of the Word\nFreedom (in so many aspects)
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The Chain of Love by Clay Walker
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Book, Chapter, and verse.
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The book concerns the structure of society.\n\nSee the Wikipedia article below.
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This is one of the those loose terms that anyone can define to mean whatever they want it to mean.\nDefine 'growth', for starters. Then define 'spiritual'.\nDo you have any particular religion in mind?
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I've posted a couple of URLs for your reference, and while I was looking found that it is the subject fiction for several Honors English classes and college level thesis themes.  You might try searching on the author,  Susan Carol McCarthy, for additional analysis. \n  To discuss chapter themes it looks like you are really going to have to use your imagination and deductive reasoning, which is a great way to exercise your brain!