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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The Spiritual Disciplines But just what are the Spiritual Disciplines which are absolutely essential to our spiritual development?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
There is danger in neglecting the spiritual disciplines.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
We need to have spiritual disciplines.
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In Wikipedia:
With no fixed residence, he constantly travels to temples and residences both in India and abroad to meet the devotees and further the spiritual disciplines of Lord Swaminarayan.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Part 3 is “Spiritual disciplines’ ’ and here Newton expounds on reading and meditation, prayer, personal worship, family worship, evangelism, and knowing the will of God.
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In Wikipedia:
As a “Brahmachari”, for many years he devoted himself to the study of the Scriptures under eminent teachers, practiced spiritual disciplines, and served the Order in various capacities, until, in 1931, he was deputed by the Order to come to America as one of its representatives.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
So far this holiday weekend I have: Read 200 pages of Ed Welch’s Depression: a Stubborn Darkness, to finish it Read 1 chapter of Don Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life Read 60 pages of Alvin Reid’s Intro to Evangelism Read 60 pages of Will McRaney’s Art of Personal Evangelism Read 50 pages of Robin Gaby Fisher’s After the Fire (heads up: I’ll be doing a giveaway of this book when I’m done!) Read 90 pages of AJ Jacobs’s Year of Living Biblically Read 40 pages of Julie Lessman’s A Passion Most Pure Read 30 pages of Andrew Murray’s Humility Done 2 loads of laundry (seems out of place, but there you have it) Hmm.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Early on I reflected about my spiritual disciplines, and wondered whether I should have more structured times of reflection.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Practicing spiritual disciplines like that require some effort on our part.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It seems to me that Muslims are already pretty good at both spiritual disciplines, and yet it is from the most fanatically and legalistically observant part of the Muslim world (lots of whom, it should be added, live in Pakistan, which now has nuclear weapons) that much of the religiously inspired violence in the world emanates these days.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In fact, the key to spiritual growth is developing healthy and holy routines known as spiritual disciplines.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This is to be done by the use of spiritual disciplines to obtain the necessary power to transform the world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
What do we think of when we hear’ ’ spiritual disciplines?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I would organize my life around around these spiritual disciplines, but not in a legalistic, weird, consuming way.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
On the other hand, spiritual disciplines can be effective because they take into account the reality that personal change takes place over time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
So I have stepped out of the safe harbor of teaching various Bible books and am now teaching about drawing closer to God through spiritual disciplines, practices such as meditation, prayer, fasting, solitude, and study.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Like Jung he broke with Freud and developed his own system that actively incorporated spiritual disciplines into psychotherapy.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I have read many books on spiritual disciplines.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Pleasure brings you full – hearted right into the Now, into this precious, one – of – a – kind moment, which, if I read it right, is the aim of most spiritual disciplines.
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