Celebration of Discipline

De: Richard J. Foster

Narrado por: Richard Rohan

Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline has helped more than one million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God.

Celebration of Discipline explores the "classic disciplines", or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found.

Dividing the disciplines into three movements of the spirit, Foster shows how each of these areas contribute to a more balanced spiritual life. The inward disciplines of mediation, prayer, fasting, and study offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration bring us nearer to one another and to God.

Foster provides a wealth of examples demonstrating how these disciplines can become part of our daily activities and how they can help us shed our superficial habits and "bring the abundance of God into our lives". He offers crucial new insights on simplicity, demonstrating how the biblical view of simplicity, properly understood and applied, brings joy and balance to our inward and outward lives and "sets us free to enjoy the provision of God as a gift that can be shared with others". The discussion of celebration, often the most neglected of the disciplines, shows its critical importance, for it stands at the heart of the way to Christ. Celebration of Discipline will help motivate Christians everywhere to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth.

©1978, 1988, 1998 Richard J. Foster (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers

Reseñas de la Crítica

"The best modern book on Christian spirituality....No other book apart from the Bible has been so helpful to me in the nurturing of my inward journey of prayer and spiritual growth." (Ronald J. Sider, Executive Director, Evangelicals for Social Action)

Timeless spiritual insight

Would you consider the audio edition of Celebration of Discipline to be better than the print version?

No, not better but I do feel that I've enjoyed the print version more having had the audio to listen to and reinforce the print.

What about Richard Rohan’s performance did you like?

Smooth and easy to follow

Great reminder!

my men's group just went thru this book challenging each other and ourselves. ..a must read and action read!

Insightful and Enjoyable!

Love how each of the Spiritual Life Disciplines build upon each other. Would definitely listen again & Would highly recommend this to all!

Excellent resource and examination into the spiritual disciplines

This was a great refreshment on the disciplined life. It gives Biblical foundation for each discipline as well as practical application methods. Each chapter reminds us not to elevate the discipline higher than it ought, demonstrating full understanding of our human nature. It ends in celebration…a beautiful way to harmonize the disciplines.

a must read

I love how Foster breaks it all down in layman terms of understanding for his readers. This is a great read for every disciple of Christ.

Great perspective with biblical basis

I enjoyed the various perspectives on discipline. Especially the way the author brought them current and kept them biblical based with scripture.

A Helpful Introduction to Spiritual Disciplines

Great Complementary Book to Dallas Willard's Spirit of the Disciplines. It is full of practical helps to get you started in exercising spiritual disciplines.

Worth, listening to!

Many solid, biblical truths.
Definitely worth listening to.
A lot of good, foundational teaching.
Author is definitely well read on the subject matter.

Powerful book!

The disciplines you will find in this book will help grow and nourish a beautiful life in obedience to Christ Jesus. Thank you, Robert, for writing this book and helping us understand the true joy of obedience.

Great Book, Great Content, Poor Formatting On Audible

While I love the content of this book and all it teaches, what drives me crazy is the Chapter formatting on audible. In a recent listen, I time-stamped each chapter in the book and where you can them in Audible. Here they are and I hope this helps:

Intro: Chapter 1: 0:00
Door to Liberation: Chapter 1: 23:48
Meditation: Chapter 1: 46:28
Prayer: Chapter 2 13:37
Fasting: Chapter 2 42:31
Study: Chapter 3 00:12-30:39
Simplicity: Chapter 3 30:45
Solitude: Chapter 4: 0:13
Submission: Chapter 4: 28:51
Service: Chapter 4: 1:02:15
Confession: Chapter 5: 23:03
Worship: Chapter 5: 53:49
Guidance: Chapter 6: 17:13
Celebration: Chapter 6: 47:48