- Devotional Spirituality: Part 1—Intro & Overview of 12 Facets
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 2—Shaped by the Object of Our Love
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 3—God’s World, Word, Works, and Ways
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 4—Loving God through His World
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 5—The Contemplative Way
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 6—The Contemplative Way (cont.)
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 7—Detachment and Desire
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 8—Seasons of Dryness & Darkness
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 9—The Practice of Sacred Reading
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 10—Suggestions for Reading Scripture
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 11—Suggestions for Meditating on Scripture (& Practicing His Presence Launch)
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 12—Suggestions for Meditation & Prayer
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 13—Suggestions for Prayer
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 14—Suggestions for Contemplation
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 15—God Is Our Highest Good
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 16—God Is Our Highest Good (cont.)
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 17—The Implications of the Incarnation
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 18—Enemies of Spiritual Passion
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 19—Sources of Spiritual Passion
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 20—Psalm 16, “The Lord Is Our Supreme Good and Our Inheritance”
- Devotional Spirituality: Part 21—Psalm 103, “Bless the Lord, O My Soul”
Ken Boa explains that the highest love of God is not only intellectual. Knowing God does involve the mind, but also moves beyond reason and formulation to faith and trust. Faith, hope, and love produce growth in the experiential and personal knowledge of God. The practice of sacred reading involves a process of moving from the mind to the heart through reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation.
This is part 9 of a teaching series based on Facet 6 of Ken Boa’s best-selling spiritual formation text, Conformed to His Image. Ken Boa discusses the limits of human reason (end of chapter 14) and then moves into chapter 15, on lectio divina (or “sacred reading”), an ancient practice revitalized in recent years.
