Table of Contents

Foreword by Richard Foster

1. Hear His Voice
2. Learning to Read Again
3. Do Not Be Afraid
4. The Yearning of God
5. My Beloved Speaks
6. Reading Like Lovers
7. Anatomy of the Soul
8. Listen!
9. Living in the Gospel
10. The Book of Christ
11. Sacred Reading
12. The Disordered Soul
13. A Life Desired
14. Beyond the Bible
15. Friendship with Jesus

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes

About the Author

Richard J. Foster (D.Th.P., Fuller Theological Seminary) is founder of Renovaré in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of many books, including Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, which has sold over two million copies worldwide, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home, Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World, and coauthor (with Gayle Beebe) of Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion.

Chris Webb is president of Renovaré, a Christian spiritual formation ministry in the Denver area. In addition he is an Anglican priest and new monastic, who pastored in a variety of urban and rural churches in his native Wales. He has taught in seminaries and colleges and regularly speaks at retreats and conferences around the world.

Reviews

"I would commend this book for the challenge it has made to me to think about how I read the bible."
*John R. Reid, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring 2013*