The Making of an Ordinary Saint: My Journey from Frustration to Joy with the Spiritual Disciplines

by Nathan Foster

Richard Foster (Foreword)

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Nathan Foster was just a child when his father's classic Celebration of Discipline brought the spiritual disciplines into the popular evangelical consciousness. More than thirty years later, Nathan made his own journey into the spiritual disciplines. As he sought day by day to develop habits that would enable him to live more like Jesus, he encountered problems both universal and unique. In this engaging narrative, he draws insights from saints of old to uncover fresh ways of living for the contemporary, postmodern Christian.

Through his successes, struggles, and failures, Foster invites readers on a journey of freedom, pain, frustration, and ultimately joy as he learns to rise above selfish desires, laugh at his own failures, and fall in love with God. Those who have read Celebration of Discipline will find in Nathan's book creative new ways to practice the disciplines that have been so formative in their lives. Those who are new to the spiritual disciplines will find that developing a vital, interactive, conversational relationship with God is within their grasp. As a result, the holy habits of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are truly possible for all. Includes chapter openings and a foreword from Richard J. Foster.
  • ISBN10 0801014646
  • ISBN13 9780801014642
  • Publish Date 7 October 2014 (first published 30 September 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Baker Publishing Group
  • Imprint Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 208
  • Language English