5 Great Books To Help You Grow Spiritually
With so many wonderful books out there on leadership, spiritual formation, prayer, and more, it can be hard to know where to start. While the following is not a comprehensive list, it’s a great place to start exploring a new topic or to go deeper! Here are 5 great books on spiritual formation and direction:
5 Great Books To Help You Grow Spiritually
The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer - A best-selling book that makes the case that hurry is the great threat to emotional and spiritual health. John Mark Comer wrote this book in response to the question, “Who am I becoming?,” catapulting him to investigate “hurry sickness” in today’s culture and the healing, freeing way of Jesus. This book is for anyone searching spiritual growth in the digitized, overstimulated modern world.
From Strength To Strength by Arthur C. Brooks - This book helps you ask, “What can I do, starting now, to make my older years a time of happiness, purpose, and yes, success?” This book is a direct result of the author’s own journey of finding opportunity for progress, productivity, and purpose in the second half of life. However, this book is for everyone and anyone looking to reframe habits that have positive consequences on the rest of your life, wisdom from a broad spectrum of philosophers, theologians, and everyday people.
Let Your Life Speak: Listening For The Voice Of Vocation by Parker Palmer - Whether you’re a student exploring your next step, changing jobs, transitioning through another life stage, chances are you’ve questioned your vocation and life purpose at least once. This book is a beautifully honest and helpful collection of stories and lessons from Palmer to you, the reader, commissioning you to embark on the all-important journey of discovery, calling, and purpose.
Guerrillas of Grace by Ted Loder - This is a collection of prayers around themes of quietness and listening, thanks and praise, unburdening and confession, comfort and reassurance, restoration and renewal, commitment and change, seasons and holidays. The poetry of this book invites an unhurried pace, allowing the power, the beauty, and the vulnerability to shape your time with God.
Be Still: A Simple Guide To Quiet Times by Brian Heasley - If you’re looking for help in growing in prayer, whether it’s how to pray or what prayer is or how to set a rhythm of prayer in your daily life, then this is a great place to start. This book will help you to develop a prayer habit, breathe new life in your prayer experience, and deepen your relationship with God! With discussion topics, this book would be great to journey through individually, but also in community - with your family or friends.
Pick one of these books to journey through with God and others, asking questions along the way, processing learnings with others, and finding what works for you as you grow in your spirituality.