Tending to our Christian spiritual growth and development is an important aspect to living a healthy life. But just like every area of life, time demands and priorities can make spiritual development more of a goal to be pursued than an activity to be practiced. In today’s world there are some wonderful websites that are designed to maximize the time you have to spend working on your personal Christian spiritual development.
Here are three of my current personal favorites:
Examen.me
Examen.me is a Scripture / Prayer / Journal website that will guide you through a personal in-depth journey with God to examine a deeper place in your spiritual life.
Scripture Examens will guide you to meditate on scripture with the goal of life-obedience. You have the choice of various New and Old Testament passages. Prayer Examens help provide focus as you pray. The guides do not tell you what to pray, but serve only as a catalyst to deepen your conversation with God. If you have an account, you can Journal through every type of Examen. They also provide an Examen that is simply a journal with the option to retrieve any scripture passage you want.
Check out this site, it may be something that can really help you for certain days and times of your life.
http://examen.me/examen/start
Christian Book Summaries
This is a website that provides wonderful summaries on over 150 interesting and varied topics related to the Christian life. The summaries provide insights that allow the reader to gather basic information about a book/topic and to decide if they want to “go deeper” and actually purchase the book
The goal of the site is to convey the essence of books of particular interest to thinking Christians through complete and accurate summaries, to support the faithful ministry of Christian authors and publishers, and to encourage readers to buy and read quality books because, a good book can be life changing.
Take a few minutes to browse this site to see the variety of topics that are covered and then choose one to see if a summary helps you. Notice, there is an e-mail notification service that will advise you whenever a new summary is released (they do not push you to buy anything).
http://www.christianbooksummaries.com/index.php
You Version
Great websites have a purpose and YouVersion.com was designed by Life Church to offer easy access to the Bible with the hope of encouraging daily or frequent reading. The site offers the Bible in numerous English translations as well as languages form around the world. All of this is supported with 20 different Bible reading plans to choose from. Sounds too complicated – the site is very simple to navigate and will easily guide you into a Bible reading plan that is right for you.
You Version represents a new frontier in reading the Scriptures. The site’s designers say they are not just building a tool to impact the world using innovative technology. More importantly, they are engaged with people to help form a relationships with God as they discover the relevance the Bible has for their lives.
In addition, with a free account you can join communities and share your reading experiences with others. You Version also offers a full array of mobile phone apps. This may be just the tool you need to start regularly reading the Bible.
http://www.youversion.com/
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