Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image We will be drawn to certain spiritual disciplines, depending on our personalities. It is good though to try some occasionally that we would not normally gravitate to. Since I have written on several of these before I will only highlight a few. The discipline of…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image In our spiritual lives we need a balance between dependence and discipline. God works in us by the Holy Spirit but we are also told to work out our salvation (not work for our salvation) Jesus wants to reproduce His life in us and this…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image Our presuppositions shape our perspective in life and our perspective shapes our priorities and our priorities shape what we do. We all have a set of presuppositions about life, even we are not really aware of it. So often we choose temporal and earthly visible…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image “There is no sin so great that God will not forgive but there is no sin so small that it does not need to be forgiven.”  Because of Jesus death on the cross, we are offered the wonderful gift of forgiveness and a secure relationship…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image As we grow in our awareness of our freedom in Christ, more and more we are able to put others first.  “Do nothing out of selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely…

Devotions from Kenneth  Boa’s book, Conformed to His image The more we love God the more we will express His love to others in acts of kindness and goodness. “There is no act that begins with the love of God that does not end with the love of neighbor.”   As we grow in our understanding…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image We are either defined by our world or by God. “To love ourselves correctly is to see ourselves as God sees us.”  We are always in danger of letting the world define us instead of God. It is so easy to shape our self-image by…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image Our spiritual life is an all-encompassing, lifelong response to God’s initiative in our lives, as our trust is in Him.  It begins with the gift of forgiveness and goes on through faith and obedience. It is a journey with Christ rather than a journey to…

Devotions from Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image God created us for intimate relationship with Him- to know, enjoy, and honor Him. Because God is a relational being, He wants fellowship with us. The better we know Him, the better we know ourselves. Isn’t it amazing that our God who created over 200,000,000,000 stars…

Devotions based on Juliet Benner’s book, Contemplative Vision As I read this book I saw how spiritual sight is even more important than physical sight for without it we are limited in seeing God in our lives and world. If we go through life “blissfully unaware” we feel disconnected from God and ourselves. To be…