Ken Boa introduces a new teaching series, “Devotional Spirituality,” which involves growing in intimacy with Christ, reveling in God’s glorious attributes, and aspiring to lay hold of His desires for us. The series is based on Facet 6 of his best-selling spiritual formation text, Conformed to His Image.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 2—Shaped by the Object of Our Love
In part 2 of his “Devotional Spirituality” series during his Monday Night Study, Ken Boa shares the principle that we steadily become conformed to that which we most love and admire.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 3—God’s World, Word, Works, and Ways
In this third part of his “Devotional Spirituality” series, Ken Boa encourages us to prayerfully and carefully consider the design of the heavens and earth which display God’s glory, wisdom, and greatness.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 4—Loving God through His World
Ken Boa considers meditation on the created order as a means to knowing and growing in Christ. He explains that God’s ways, works, world, and Word all reveal His attributes to those who wish to know Him.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 5—The Contemplative Way
Ken Boa begins discussing contemplative spirituality by sharing a parallel theme from The Little Prince.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 6—The Contemplative Way (cont.)
Followers of the contemplative approach make the love of God their supreme and unrivaled object, Ken Boa explains in this sixth part of his “Devotional Spirituality” series.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 7—Detachment and Desire
Ken Boa emphasizes the necessity of detaching from the temporal and desiring the eternal in this seventh part of his “Devotional Spirituality” series.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 8—Seasons of Dryness & Darkness
The spiritual life involves alternating patterns of sorrow and joy, delight and emptiness, warm experience and feelings of abandonment. During these times, showing up before God on a daily basis is critical, Ken Boa explains in this eighth part of his “Devotional Spirituality” series.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 9—The Practice of Sacred Reading
Knowing God involves both the heart and the mind. The ancient practice of sacred reading involves a process of moving from the mind to the heart through reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation. This is the ninth part of Ken Boa’s “Devotional Spirituality” series.
Read MoreDevotional Spirituality: Part 10—Suggestions for Reading Scripture
Ken Boa offers 15 suggestions for optimizing times of sacred reading (of God’s Word) in this 10th part of his “Devotional Spirituality” teaching series.
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