Spiritual Disciplines – Defined

“The disciplines are activities of mind and body purposefully undertaken, to bring our personality and total being into effective cooperation with the divine order. They enable s more and more to live in a power that is, strictly speaking, beyond us, deriving from the spiritual realm itself, as we “yield ourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto God” as Romans 6:13 puts it.”
-Dallas Willard, p68 The Spirit of the Disciplines

Reading the Bible

Kenneth Bailey who has been very helpful at times in helping me understand the landscape, culture and traditions of the biblical world has a blog in which he made several posts about the scriptures along with do’s and don’t in interpreting. Check it out here.

Buckets

So this upcoming semester I will be working with FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) on the UOP (University of Pacific) campus as an employee of FBC (First Baptist Church). I like to call it the collision of the initials: FCA/UOP/FBC