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Life with God: Reading the Bible for Spiritual TransformationRichard J. Foster, bestselling author of Celebration of Discipline and general editor of The Renovar Spiritual Formation Bible, has completed his much anticipated book on the Bible, Life with God. In it, Foster argues that God has superintended the writing of Scripture so that it serves as the most reliable guide for Christian spiritual formation. As we read the Bible, we should consider how exactly God is with us in each story and allow ourselves to
Richard J. Foster, bestselling author of Celebration of Discipline and general editor of The Renovar Spiritual Formation Bible, has completed his much-anticipated book on the Bible, Life with God. In it, Foster argues that God has superintended the writing of Scripture so that it serves as the most reliable guide for Christian spiritual formation.
As we read the Bible, we should consider how exactly God is with us in each story and allow ourselves to be spiritually transformed. By opening our whole selves - mind, body, spirit, thoughts, behavior, and will -- to the page before us, we begin to grasp all the Bible has to teach about prayer, obedience, compassion, virtue, and grace and apply it to our everyday lives. Life with God is an indispensable guide. It teaches students that reading the Bible for interior transformation is a far different endeavor than reading the Bible for historical knowledge, literary appreciation, or religious instruction. Richard J. Foster is the author of several bestselling books, including Celebration of Discipline, Streams of Living Water, and Prayer, which in 1993 was Christianity Today's Book of the Year and the winner of the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is the founder of Renovar , an intrachurch movement committed to the renewal of the Church in all her multifaceted expressions, and the editor of the Renovar Spiritual Formation Bible. "As usual, Foster's work is not for those readers who are seeking quick answers or a behavioral checklist of what the Bible says they should do. Rather, it is a deep reflective guide to spiritual rumination and growth." -- Publishers Weekly--Will Willimon, Bishop, the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church and author of Conversations with Barth about Preaching (Abingdon, 2007)Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 05/04/2010
ISBN: 9780061671746
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
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★★★★★ 5
Relevant and serious issues for today’s Christian
This is a no joke book. She takes Christianity seriously and gives her own life story and growth to encourage the reader. Very convicting read.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Rosaria is an intelligent human being.
Format: Hardcover
Rosaria writes as such. She walks through lies we are told by our culture here in America and beyond. How to look at sin rightly and touches on her own experiences throughout the book. She is raw and open. However, I do think some of her definitions are not really what we use for some of it. Got me a little confused. I used it to walk my bible study through these lies. There are a lot of questions, but you get out what you put in, so I think it was well worth the time and energy it took to read, reflect and respond to the text. It has biblical backing, and I was thankful for her honesty where she has made public statements before, and has since learned more and no longer thinks that way. It has to be hard, and has been hard. To live her experiences. Such a huge cost to following Jesus. May her ministry and book sales be blessed, as this book should be in church libraries around the world. To know how to gently and lovingly interact with those who are living differently than we.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Most Important book for Christians
The sincere convert accepts a complete Christ. He loves not only the reward, but the labor. He seeks not only the benefits, but the burden of Christ. He takes up the commands, yes even the cross of Christ. In contrast, the unsound and perhaps unsaved person takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation but not the sanctification. He is all for the privileges, but neglects the person of Christ..They desire salvation from suffering, but do not desire to be saved from sinning.
Christianity is not about us being perfect but our faith in the One that is perfect. From Rosaria's perspective of being a feminist, liberal Professor, and living as a lesbian, she gave up everything for Christ. She believed the lies and found the truth that set her free. She has found meaning of the pain of what she gave up within the promises of God's word. She also understands how the lies will destroy families, communities and the only hope we have is the truth.
I struggle with the difference of acceptance and approval. I believed that they were the same. They are not the same. I believed the lie and struggled because of it. Acceptance involves listening, caring for, and praying and sharing the truth of God's word. Acceptance helps you in the landmines of lies. You know the difference of the lies and the truth. Acceptance means living in the reality and not fantasy. Rosaria in great detail explains how we can love thru acceptance. Approval is not kindness and pulls us away from the reality and truth.
The five lies are as follows:
Homosexuality is normal
Being a spiritual person is kinder than being biblical Christian
Feminism is good for the world and the church
Transgenderism is normal
Modesty is outdated burden that serves male dominance and holds women back.
These lies are the root of what keeps people from God. It is the truth that Rosaria brings forth thru her own experience, study, family, and church that is a shining light of hope. Lies do not bring hope and we need the hope of the truth that Christ testified. It is not about our feelings but the truth. We need the truth of the gospel. The gospel is not a get out of jail card but a realization that there is more. A life that is abundant in worship and awe of the God that saves. Praying that others will be blessed by this book.
A special thank you to Crossway Publishing and netgalley for the aRC and the opportunity to post an honest review.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2023
★★★★★ 5
READ IT!
Did you ever just think, "I know things are wrong, but I can't say exactly what or why?" Rosaria Butterfield makes things SOOO clear, and explains what is going wrong in our world (and how and why). READ IT!
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Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2025
★★★★★ 4
Great help for escaping the snare of the devil (2 Tim. 2:24-26)
Format: Kindle
The five lies this book was written to expose and equip believers in Christ to dismantle were well selected. The list represents the myriad falsehoods unleashed in our present age by the liar and father of lies, the devil (Jn. 8:44). And, that our present age is anti-Christian is evident to anyone using the Bible as the rule for Christian faith and practice. In fact, the seemingly universal celebration of all who reject the created order of the two sexes—whichever way they choose—practically confirms the truth of Scripture. The false community it forms has no other unifying factor than shared rebellion against biblical authority.
Like Carl Trueman, in his book The Strange New World, the author succeeds in calling for a compassionate but firm response to deceptions about human personhood. In her case, deceptions she once held dear, and by which she was once held captive. A difference is that, while Trueman’s approach is more historical and philosophical, Butterfield’s is more personal, pastoral, and Bible oriented. The testimony of her own conversion is compelling. Like the apostle Paul who became a planter of churches after having persecuted the Church, she balances her warnings against the lies with biblical exhortations of how to live-out the truth.
In her chapters on modesty, she demonstrates how the internet in general, and social media in particular, have been abused to blur the distinction between what is public and what should be kept private. Her observations about narcissism, non-accountability, and exhibitionism, are worth noting.
The only reason I give this book four stars instead of five is that the appendix seemed superfluous. In my opinion, the oft-quoted statement attributed to Mies Van Der Rohe (1886), “Less is More,” applies. While I believe the guidance on how to read the Bible is generally good, it seemed to promote the author’s loyalty to her denomination rather than adding anything germane to the book. It also seemed more appropriate for a pastor to teach his congregation than for a pastor’s wife to teach the Church at large. For me, it detracted from the very modesty of role that the book otherwise encouraged so well.
That said, I recommend the book as a whole. The Scripture it brought to mind is Ephesians 4:14-16.
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. (NASB 95).
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Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2023