How Is Your Soul?: A Personal Study for Spiritual Renewal

By Vineyard Resources

Many years ago Phil Strout was asked a simple question on a regular basis, by one of his great spiritual mentors. "How is your soul, Phil?" would come the query, each time they would meet.

That question, in the tradition of the best of of Ignatian spirituality, is designed to call you and I to give our attention to our intimacy with Jesus through the wear and tear of life.

For every pastor and individual member of your congregation, this popular resource, How Is Your Soul? was designed in light of Phil's challenge to leaders and church members in the Vineyard community to regularly ask this question.

How Is Your Soul? is an accessible 4 week, personal study for spiritual renewal. Written for each person in your congregation, these 20 pages will equip your church members to engage with God in a rich new way.

Devotions Unpack:

How Is Your Soul? Examine your life; ask the questions of the heart.
How Is Your Family? Your first church; how can you tend carefully to their needs?
How Is Your Work? We work to give; how do we carry Christ into our work?
How Is Your Calling? Join God's future; what is your part in God's mission?

Booklet Includes:

A Encouragement Letter from Phil Strout
4 powerful, weekly studies with ideas from Ignatius, Susanna Wesley, Brother Lawrence, C.S. Lewis, Augustine, and more.
4 Examen Questions, one following each study
1 Daily Examen Tool, modified for today's Christian
1 Yearly Examen Tool
1 Morning and Evening Prayer, each for daily personal use
A Keepsake look and feel

Benefits:

A rich discipleship tool for your congregation
An inexpensive gift for every member of your congregation
A lifetime personal renewal tool with a Daily and Yearly Examen
A spiritual growth tool from the heart of one of today’s most passionate church movements

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483558974

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WHY THIS LITTLE BOOK?

Many years ago, a mentor and spiritual father in my life asked me a question I will never forget. How is your soul, Phil? he would ask in his deep, radio-sounding voice.

That question has stayed with me all of these years, and now I’d like to pose it to you – How is your soul?

The Spirit of God has used this simple question in my own life to set me on a personal, family, and leadership course that to this day I do not regret. If you and I will put our intimate relationship (presence) with Jesus first – daily, weekly, yearly, and across our lifetime – I think we may see more and more of what God has intended for us.

How Is Your Soul? is a booklet that is designed to encourage you, renew you, and empower you to live a life full of the Spirit’s love – and a life energized by the Spirit’s presence.

Along with 4 studies that address key areas of your personal life, family life, work life, and calling, you’ll also find a Daily and Yearly Examen to help you keep asking the right questions consistently.

Other tools, with historical voices on spiritual formation, will help to focus your spiritual life for the journey ahead.

How is your soul? I pray that you grow stronger through this resource.

Phil Strout

National Director, Vineyard USA

INTRODUCTION: SPIRITUAL GROWTH HAPPENS

Like a tree, we are always growing. How healthily we are growing, however, is