The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.