by Steve Thomason | Dec 19, 2012 | Personal Journal
The semester ended today! I spent five and a half hours talking about our final papers with three of my colleagues and our professors, Dr. Mary Hess and Dr. Gary Simpson. It was a wonderful recap of the course–Gospel and Cultures–and I was truly encouraged...
by Steve Thomason | Dec 17, 2012 | Books - Discipleship, Books - Spirituality, Spiritual Formation
Boa, Kenneth. Conformed to His Image: Biblical and Practical Approaches to Spiritual Formation. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001. Author: Kenneth Boa Boa outlines twelve distinct types of Christian spiritualities. He describes them each as facets to the diamond that...
by Steve Thomason | Dec 17, 2012 | Bible, Spiritual Formation
My rereading of Dallas Willard’s Renovation of the Heart sparked many questions for me. One of them has to do with the role of our individual will as it relates to the work of the Holy Spirit. In search of conversation partners, I first turned to Stanley...