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Embracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual Practice is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does a Christian life lived “by the Spirit” look like? For many Christians throughout history, fulfilling Paul’s command in Galatians 5:25 included a form of contemplation and prayer that leads to spiritual formation. But in large part, contemporary Christians—perhaps especially evangelicals—seem to have lost or forgotten about this treasure from their own tradition. Bringing together...

opposite; we merely obey by opening to Christ’s inner presence and love in the Spirit. Furthermore, following Baxter, the contemplative life is not one form or style of Christian existence, nor is contemplation a kind of spiritual attitude or set of disciplines that characterize a kind of spiritual life (although it will order these). Rather, the Christian life is the result of the work of the indwelling Spirit who sanctifies, makes righteous, saves, redeems, and transforms the believer into the
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