Soul Care
Resources for Spiritual Growth and Renewal
... growing in Christ together
Soul Care is a resource for those looking for spiritual growth and renewal. The Soul Care Team offers one to one mentoring, resources and guidance to help people develop spiritual disciplines in order to deepen their relationship with God. If you are interested in knowing more, please contact us now!
Meet the
Soul Care Team
We are excited to offer the ministry of our Soul Care team to the Swannanoa valley. If you would like spiritual guidance, mentoring or help developing personal spiritual disciplines, we encourage you to reach out to someone on the team.
Resources
Below is a collection of resources that has been selected to help you grow in your spiritual disciplines. Click the bar to expand each section.
Theology
The Spiritual Life | Evelyn Underhill | The spiritual life is here considered, not as an intense form of piety peculiar to saints, but as the living heart of all religion, and therefore of vital concern to ordinary men and women. | Read more |
Studies
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 | Wendell Berry | Berry’s Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life―beauty, death, peace, and hope. | Read more | |
Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem | Kevin DeYoung | Highly practical and super short, Crazy Busy will help you put an end to “busyness as usual.” | Read more | |
Falling for God: Saying Yes to His Extravagant Proposal | Gary W. Moon | Falling in love is one of life’s greatest joys.
So imagine the endless joy of falling head over heels for God. | Read more | |
God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God | Ken Shigematsu | Ken explains how the time-tested spiritual practice of the “rule of life” can help bring busy people into a closer relationship with God. | Read more | |
Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God | Dallas Willard | In this beloved classic, you'll gain rich spiritual insight into how we can hear God's voice clearly and develop an intimate partnership with him in the work of his kingdom. | Read more | |
Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence | Ruth Haley Barton | This book is an invitation to you to meet God deeply and fully outside the demands and noise of daily life. It is an invitation to solitude and silence. | Read more | |
Running on Empty: Contemplative Spirituality for Overachievers | Fil Anderson | This powerful story of a reawakened soul can be the story of every person who has pursued spiritual productivity over intimacy with God and come up empty. | Read more | |
Satisfy Your Soul: Restoring the Heart of Christian Spirituality | Bruce Demarest | Discover the timeless spiritual guidance from Christian classics on such spiritual disciplines as silence, meditation, contemplation, and more. | Read more | |
Solo: Creating Space with God | Stephen W. Smith and Peter M. Ivey | Solo: Creating Space with God is your personal guide to help you craft a day alone, a day with God, a day to regain your humanity and your heart! | Read more | |
Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life | Marjorie J. Thompson | Offering a framework for understanding the spiritual disciplines and instruction for developing and nurturing those practices, Soul Feast continues to be a favorite for individual reflection and group study. | Read more | |
Spiritual Classics | Renovaré revised and edited by Richard J. Foster and Emilie Griffin | From nearly two thousand years of Christian writing comes Spiritual Classcs,fifty–two selections complete with a profile of each author, guided meditations for group and individual use, and reflections containing questions and exercises. | Read more | |
The Examen Prayer: Ignatian Wisdom for Our Lives Today | Timothy M. OMV Gallagher | The examen prayer is a transforming and ever-growing practice in Christian spirituality. | Read more | |
The Joy of Listening to God: Hearing the Many Ways God Speaks to Us | Joyce Huggett | For many, prayer is a time to pour out our concerns to God. But are we so busy talking that we fail to listen to all the riches he has for us? | Read more | |
The Way of the Heart: Connecting with God Through Prayer, Wisdom, and Silence | Henri J. M. Nouwen | Within this one small book lies the most relevant and inspiring challenge that we shall ever face: to surrender the compulsive noise of the world for the way of the heart that leads us to God. | Read more | |
You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God's Design and Why That's Good News | Kelly M. Kapic | Rather than sharing better time-management tips to squeeze more hours out of the day, Kelly Kapic takes a different approach in You're Only Human. He offers a better way to make peace with the fact that God didn't create us to do it all. | Read more |
Studies
Devotionals
Devotional Classics | Renovaré Revised by Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith | The fifty-two selections in Devotional Classics have been organized to introduce the reader to the great Christian devotional writers over the course of one year | Read more | |
The Divine Hours Pocket Edition | Phyllis Tickle | Tickle has gathered one full week of fixed-hour prayers, providing an ideal companion for travelers, office-workers, people on retreat or pilgrimage, as well as newcomers to this age-old spiritual practice. | Read more |
Devotionals
Other
A Day in the Presence of God | Donovan L. Graham | A guide including prompts and exercises for spending a day in the presence of God. | Read more | |
Come Away With Me | Peter Ivey | This local retreat guide was created out of a desire to help you to answer that call, to say "yes" to Jesus' invitation to deep and satisfying intimacy with Him, to retune your ears to the whispers of the Spirit, and to begin cultivating a daily rhythm of resting in the Lord. | Read more | |
Conversations with God | Donovan L. Graham | A conversation with God involves both speaking and listening. It is a dialogue, not just a monologue of requests. Asking for things may well be included, but that is not the main focus of a conversation between two who love each other. They want to share and hear what is on each other’s hearts. | Read more | |
Godspeed | Group Documentary | This is the story of an American pastor whose desire to change the world grinds to a halt in a Scottish parish. GODSPEED was shot in three days, in three villages, by three friends. What began as a five minute video ended as a half-hour portrait of the people and places who had taught Matt to repent & rest. None of this would have happened had not Matt's brother Brian hopped on a plane with his friend Danny of The Ranch Studios, the week that Matt and his family were packing their bags to move. Four years later, and twenty-four film drafts squeezed in between sermons and parish visits, Godspeed is here and ready to be shared. We hope you enjoy this labor of love as we all seek to live at Godspeed in our own parishes. | Read more | |
Space for God | Dr. Donovan L. Graham | Retreats and personal guidance are developed around the issues you are confronting in your life, or follow a theme shaped by Donovan. In every experience there is opportunity to talk with someone who will accept and understand without trying to “fix” you, but will instead consistently try to point you to God to see what he is up to in your life. | Read more | |
The State of My Soul | Potter's Inn | The State of My Soul Wheel is an easy-to-use tool designed to help determine the current condition of one’s soul and is ideal for individual, couple, group, church and organization use. | Read more | |
Thrive | Thrive | Thrive is a Christian Nonprofit that offers personal, professional and spiritual growth experiences, rooted in biblical truths and full of grace, so that we all may become more like Christ. | Read more |