Literature

Books recommended for reading:

Dallas Willard 1) "The Spirit of the Disciplines" and 2) "The Divine Conspiracy". I got both at Amazon. You can find out more about Dallas Willard here. Following is a short snippet from that website: "DALLAS WILLARD is a Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He has taught at USC since 1965, where he was Director of the School of Philosophy from 1982-1985. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, 1960-1965), and has held visiting appointments at UCLA (1969) and the University of Colorado (1984). "

Obviously Willard is a bright guy. But most convincing to me is that he recovers significance of the everyday Christian life straight from a fresh perspective on the Sermon on the Mount (see reference 2) and from an application of centuries old wisdom of those apprentices of the great master that went before us (see reference 1).

Another helpful book is Richard Fosters "Celebration of Discipline". Foster is also the director of the Renovaré website with a lot more resources for spiritual formation.

There is much more available on the topic of spiritual formation.