Saturday, January 23, 2010
Mark Dever Interviews Donald Whitney
So now I want to move to Kentucky to take a couple of classes from Donald Whitney. Extremely practical advice regarding the spiritual disciplines in this interview. He's written a few books too. The next one I want to get is Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life. In the interview, he talks about infusing joy back into spiritual disciplines in a way I actually believe would work. Specifically, he talks about praying through scripture as a way to keep prayer fresh. The point? We generally pray the same words about the same things and get bored. He points out that we will generally be praying about the same things (about 8 categories--ie family, future, un-believers, etc); but, if we use the same words all the time, it will grow stale easily. Praying through scripture is his remedy.
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