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The key to a spiritual life is the cultivation of a spiritual heart. This is what makes the difference between hoping to change “someday” and actually changing your thoughts and behaviors now. Bill Hull says the great teachers of the past (such as William Law and John Wesley) and the best guides in spiritual formation today (such as Dallas Willard and Richard Foster) all agree on the central...

is doing the same in the church today. People who are normally right-thinking tend to lose their way when it comes to desire and religious behavior. They reason, I know that at work I must conduct myself a certain way and engage in various duties to succeed. In order to do so, I must deny my desire to goof off, cheat, and engage in other immoral deeds. However, some of these folks take a different position when asked about desire in the religious realm. They will propose that religious feeling is
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