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Spiritual Mentoring: A Guide for Seeking and Giving Direction
by Keith Anderson and Randy Reese
As we seek God together, we come to know Him more deeply. Spiritual mentoring relationships bring together a mature Christian and a younger Christian who desire to grow in Christ. In this book we learn how to mentor and be mentored as the authors draw on the work of a different classical spiritual writer in each chapter.
Mentoring: Confidence in Finding a Mentor and Becoming One
by Bobb Biehl
Biehl gives some very helpful points for developing a mentoring program in the local church. Rather than appointing mentors to proteges, he suggests developing lists of persons willing to serve in each capacity. Personal chemistry and mutual attraction then would work to bring the two together.
The Mentor Handbook: Detailed Guidelines and Helps for Christian Mentors and Mentorees
by J. Robert Clinton and Richard W. Clinton
This self-study manual is ideal for small groups or individual study. It describes the nine types of mentoring influences (discipling, spiritual guidance, coaching, counseling, teaching, sponsoring, contemporary modeling, historical modeling, and divine contacts) in detail in terms of the five major mentoring dynamics (attraction, relationship, responsiveness, accountability, empowerment).
Spiritual Direction and Meditation
by Thomas Merton
The "no nonsense" attitude of Thomas Merton has rarely been productive of so many good things in so short a space as it is in Spiritual Direction and Meditation. Without really raising his voice once the author proceeds to the heart of each of these mattersand speaks home truths for which all sorts of people - priests and religious and laiety - will be grateful.
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God
by Dallas Willard
...the comprehensive nature of this book...provides...a conceptual philosophy for understanding the meaning and purpose of human existence. The breadth of the issues covered is astonishing: from the soul's redemption and justification to discipleship and our growth in grace to death and the state of our existence in heaven.
Jesus in the Margins: Finding God in the Places We Ignore
by Rick Mckinley
This book was birthed out of Rick’s ministry at Imago Dei Community Church. Rick’s heart is to communicate God’s Word in an understandable way to those who are outside the reach of traditional churches. He often calls this “unpacking the gospel”—a gospel he sees as the predominant theme in all of Scripture. Rick says the kind of people he ministers to “are not afraid of the language of theology, but the theological ideas need to be brought down from the mountain.”