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Really good! I look forward to implementing some of these practices into my own life.
A truly excellent guide to cultivating spiritual disciplines that help believers love God and love their neighbors. I'm already implementing habits myself and looking for ways to share this with our church community.
a good book for the wealthy lawyer type, but kinda ignorant of how others would need to have spiritual practices. I can see it as a good resource in the future
I bought a copy for someone else and got one to read along for their benefit. I needed this myself. Habit isn't mutually exclusive from the Holy Spirit. An ordered life that is regulated can be a means of spiritual discipline that is for our good and growth on many levels.
Highly recommend this Christ-focused book...especially during this time of Covid quarantine. How we live our lives is of course how we live each days.
This book starts with the premise that in our complex lives, our (frequently un-examined) habits shape us as much as anything else. It then provides a series of thoughtful and practical habits to incorporate into life, with the goal of pushing back against our default modes of living and intentionally choosing habits that will foster our affections for God, His Word, and His People. It's a simple concept but well explained and the author uses his own experiences (successes and failures) to show that it's not about perfection but about a posture of wanting to seek God more fully.
The author here takes many of the traditional Spiritual Disciplines and adapts them to the modern age, and I'd highly recommend this to anyone who finds themself struggling with a sense of overwhelming busyness, addiction/unhealthy overuse of one's phone, or difficulty incorporating time with important people in one's life into a regular schedule. I've begun practicing many of the habits and while far from perfect at them, am certainly the better off for pursuing them!
The author here takes many of the traditional Spiritual Disciplines and adapts them to the modern age, and I'd highly recommend this to anyone who finds themself struggling with a sense of overwhelming busyness, addiction/unhealthy overuse of one's phone, or difficulty incorporating time with important people in one's life into a regular schedule. I've begun practicing many of the habits and while far from perfect at them, am certainly the better off for pursuing them!
By far the most beautiful and deeply meaningful book about habit formation that I have ever read. Highly, highly recommend.
I’m grateful to have heard Justin Earley speak on this book, and the read lived up to the talk. It’s conversational, has powerful ideas, and includes plenty of practical applications.
The wisdom provided by Justin Earley in this work is not new, but it is packaged in a way that I believe resonates well with contemporary readers who find themselves questioning the pattern and rhythm of life in the 21st century.
The framework that Earley provides to his readers is anchored in the two greatest commands according to Jesus: to love God and to love neighbor. It is with this foundation that Earley builds “The Common Rule”, and I must say I was grateful for the theological discussion he provided for each practice as to why it would form someone in those two commands.
This is not a required read, but if someone is beginning to question how to reclaim their daily life from the consumptive and restless patterns of American culture, this book can help initiate first steps to building a life that looks genuinely different than that of the worlds way of living. The practices that Earley provides are both redemptive and Christo-centric, which makes these practices and his discussion something I hope to return to in the future when I tweak my own rule of life.
Ultimately this book provides wisdom anchored in the story of Scripture and encourages its readers to engage with it rather than peruse it, and I would recommend them to do so as well to see what practices may shape one’s life more into an imitation of the rhythm of Jesus.
The framework that Earley provides to his readers is anchored in the two greatest commands according to Jesus: to love God and to love neighbor. It is with this foundation that Earley builds “The Common Rule”, and I must say I was grateful for the theological discussion he provided for each practice as to why it would form someone in those two commands.
This is not a required read, but if someone is beginning to question how to reclaim their daily life from the consumptive and restless patterns of American culture, this book can help initiate first steps to building a life that looks genuinely different than that of the worlds way of living. The practices that Earley provides are both redemptive and Christo-centric, which makes these practices and his discussion something I hope to return to in the future when I tweak my own rule of life.
Ultimately this book provides wisdom anchored in the story of Scripture and encourages its readers to engage with it rather than peruse it, and I would recommend them to do so as well to see what practices may shape one’s life more into an imitation of the rhythm of Jesus.