Hear the Word of the Lord Active engagement with spiritual disciplines begins with the Word of God. “Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of ...

Passive Disciplines God is actively involved in disciplining His people. “For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 13:3 God knows that active disciplines alone will not be sufficient to lead us into the ...

All of Life Spiritual All of life is spiritual because it is lived before God. The Law of God presents a worldview, a way of understanding our lives in the world and living them according to the eternal plan of God. The worldview communicated in the Law of God is the seed ...

Active Disciplines The work of spiritual discipline has two aspects. “See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them….” Deuteronomy 4:5 We have seen that God is the source to Whom we look for guidance in disciplining our lives to know Him ...

Love the Lord When we fear God as we ought, we will love Him as He desires. “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with ...

Fear the Lord Spiritual discipline begins in the soul’s attitude toward God. “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with ...

The Source of Spiritual Disciplines Even the discipline we need is a gift of God’s grace. “Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight.” Exodus 33:13 Where would the people of Israel learn ...

Why Spiritual Disciplines? Our sinful nature makes spiritual disciplines most necessary. When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us.” Exodus 32:1 Spiritual disciplines are those activities we submit ...

The Training of the Soul Gaining the promises of God does not come naturally. “You shall love the LORD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:5 The worldview rooted in the Law of God is grounded in a compelling vision of God and His ...

The Hereafter God’s Law indicates an eternal continuance with Him. And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers.” Deuteronomy 31:16 God declared Himself to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, as Jesus explained, but of ...