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Habits for Our Holiness: How the Spiritual Disciplines Grow Us Up, Draw Us Together, and Send Us Out is unavailable, but you can change that!

Not your typical spiritual disciplines book Most books on the spiritual disciplines follow the same pattern: introduce the discipline, prove it from Scripture, and give tips for how to do it. Habits for our Holiness does more than that: It connects the disciplines to all of life. By showing how the disciplines have their greatest power when practiced in community and on mission, Philip Nation...

Bathsheba and murder of her husband, Uriah. The prayer is a cry for help because of the devastation brought about by sin. In our confession, we learn to lean upon God’s character in order to find God’s forgiveness. Like David, we can pray, “Be gracious to me, God, according to Your faithful love; according to Your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion” (v. 1). Our confession must also recognize who we have offended. David has committed adultery and had a man killed on the battlefield. Yet in his prayer,