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The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

by Dallas Willard · 1988

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How to Live as Jesus LivedDallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy(Christianity Today's1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplinesis for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention.

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adult
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medium · 288 pages

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