The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

An inspiring self-help book on how to attain growth throughout life and travel toward the path of true transformation. It offers modern perspectives on spiritual disciplines with humor and warmth.

I found this book incredibly helpful. I found some of it washed over me, however, the key points were easy to remember. It is very informative, uses real life examples to help teach and is written well.

From this book I have learnt to do things as if Jesus were doing them, how to pray more effectively, how to mediate and study the Scriptures in a better method and change how I think when I am sometimes feeling low.

This isn’t a long book, only 220 pages and the text is broken up with a few diagrams, funny stories and tip-boxes to help put into action what has been read.

A helpful read.

8/10

What does true spiritual life really look like? What keeps you from living such a life? John points to a road of transformation and a spiritual viigor that anyone can take.

The Christian life is about more than being forgiven, more even than making it to heaven. The heart of Christianity is about transformation-about a God who isn't just concerned with our "spiritual lives," but who wants to impact every aspect of living. It's realizing that God meets us not in a monastery but on Main Street, and that all of ordinary, daily life has the potential to be lived as if Jesus himself were the one living it.
John Ortberg calls us back to the dynamic heartbeat of Christianity-God's power to bring change and growth-and shows us how we can attain it...and why we should attain it. Salvation without change was unheard-of to Christians of other days, he says, so why has the church today reduced faith to mere spiritual show more "fire insurance" that omits the best part of being a Christian?
Now expanded to include an added chapter on prayer and discussion questions designed to help small groups make the journey together, The Life You've Always Wanted offers modern perspectives on the ancient path of the spiritual disciplines. But it's more than just a book about things we should do if we want to be good Christians. It's a road map toward true transformation, compelling because it starts not with ourselves but with the object of our journey-Jesus Christ. Ortberg shows us that Christianity isn't a matter of externals, of outer form that gets the church stamp of approval, but of Christ's character becoming etched with ever-increasing depth into our own character.

Paved with humor and sparkling anecdotes, The Life You've Always Wanted is an encouraging and challenging approach to a Christian life that's worth living. Life on the edge that fills our ordinary world with new meaning, hope, change, and a joyous, growing closeness to Christ. show less