by Alan Fadling | Jun 6, 2018 | Spiritual Formation, Spiritual Practices
I’m always grateful for Dallas Willard’s insight that a relationship with God is interactive. We can think of prayer as conversation. Prayer is being with God. It involves listening and speaking. It is a dialogue. A little practice that sometimes helps me enter into...
by Alan Fadling | Apr 25, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
We live in a culture of competition. We love hearing news about who is the fastest, the richest, the strongest, the smartest. We revel in superlatives. But superlatives, by definition, deal in the tiniest of quantities. There aren’t dozens of gold medal winners in an...
by Alan Fadling | Apr 11, 2018 | Prayer, Spiritual Practices
[At the end of this week’s email, I’ve written an exciting update on the survey we sent out to you last week.] Praying scripture in a personal way in my journal has long been a fruitful and life-giving practice for me. Recently, I gave myself to praying the first...
by Alan Fadling | Mar 28, 2018 | Resources, Spiritual Formation
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reading and loving a new biography written by my friend, Gary Moon, of the Dallas Willard Center at Westmont College. The title is Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower. What a...
by Alan Fadling | Dec 6, 2017 | Prayer, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized
Advent is here. It’s a season of remembering and celebrating the coming of Christ. It’s a time of grace, but sometimes grace doesn’t always come in our favorite flavor. When you think about experiencing grace, have you ever considered that it might first come in the...
