Spiritual Disciplines

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Spiritual Disciplines

• Dr. Richard Peace writes, "The spiritual
  disciplines keep us alert to the presence of
  God." They are a way of learning to hear again
  a way to respond positively to God."

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Jesus and Solitude
Matthew 41-11 Jesus in the wilderness
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Matthew 1413 On hearing John the Baptist was
martyred
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Matthew 1423 After feeding the 5000
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Matthew 171-9 Mount of Transfiguration
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Matthew 2636-46 Garden of Gethsemane
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Mark 135 Wilderness before began ministry
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Mark 630-34 Too busy to eat
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Luke 512-16 After a healing
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Luke 612-13 Before choosing the 12
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• Henri Nouwen
• "...solitude molds self-righteous people into
  gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so
  deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness
  and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy
  that their life itself becomes ministry.

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Henri Nouwen

• In such a ministry there is hardly any difference
  left between doing and being

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Henri Nouwen

• When we are filled with God's merciful presence,
  we can do nothing other than minister because our
  whole being witnesses to the light that has come
  into the darkness."