This seminal work in the Listening Hearts series draws on centuries of classic Christian literature and “the silence of prayerful listening” to show how to recognize and define God’s call. It explains how to eliminate barriers and prepare one’s heart to receive that call - whether it is emphatic, subtle, or seemingly obscure. The authors address the challenge of remaining faithful and attentive to God’s call and tell how a faith community can be a source of spiritual, psychological, physical, and financial support. Listening Hearts is designed for use in prayer and meditation and as the basis for group discussion. It provides suggestions on forming discernment groups and ministries, questions to raise in discerning call, as well as an informal history of the ministry and its research methods.

Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community

Religion & Spirituality

Farnham, Suzanne G.

McLean, R. Taylor

Gill, Joseph P.

Ward, Susan M.

Christian Books & Bibles

Morehouse Publishing

This step-by-step guide tells how to prepare for and conduct discussion sessions based on the ground breaking book, Listening Hearts. Inquirers, confirmation candidates and anyone who seeks God's call through group reflection will find the Listening Hearts experience invaluable for spiritual growth. Other Listening Hearts titles available from Morehouse Publishing include: Listening Hearts; Grounded in God, Revised Ed.; and Retreat Designs and Meditation Exercises.

Listening Hearts: Manual for Discussion Leaders

Weis, Richard D.

McLean, Peggy

Kolb, Sherry

Mortimore, Edward

Stewart, Billie

Holm, Edward

Miller,Louise

Step-by-step retreat designs, accompanying meditation exercises, and leader’s guidelines based on the bestseller Listening Hearts, are presented in this unique resource. Songs, from the Listening Hearts Songbook, specially-planned Eucharists, Scripture readings, meaningful projects, and meditation options are arranged to result in a Spirit-filled community bonding. Retreat Designs and Meditation Exercises can be used with other Listening Hearts series books: Listening Hearts, Grounded in God (Revised Edition), and the Manual for Discussion Leaders.

Retreat Designs and Meditation Exercises: With Guidelines for Retreat Leaders and Covenant Groups (Listening Hearts)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

This powerful, prayerful and practical guide teaches groups a whole new way of conducting meetings and reaching consensus.

Grounded in God: Listening Hearts Discernment for Group Deliberations

Hull, Stephanie A.

Morehouse Pub Co

This powerful, prayerful, and practical guide teaches groups a whole new way of conducting meetings and reaching consensus. Whether your group, committee or board is secular or religious, its members can now move beyond parliamentary procedure to a higher level using the model described here. Rooted in scripture, Grounded in God energizes and inspires. Learn how to incorporate creative silence, imagination, intuition, attentive listening, scripture, and prayer into routine meetings, decision making, or working retreats. By opening up to new perspectives, discover that the first order of business is to become attuned to God’s presence within those assembled. As members of the group become receptive to alternative viewpoints, they are opened to tap into the flow of divine wisdom and align with the will and mind of God. The results can be both spiritual and practical as they are put into action.

Grounded in God: Listening Hearts Discernment for Group Deliberations (Revised Edition)

Presents the unique approach of Listening Hearts to the spiritual practice of discernment for a new generation. Written to make the often elusive and usually clergy-centered spiritual practice of discernment accessible to all people, Corazones que escuchan/Listening Hearts features simple reflections and exercises drawn from scripture and from Quaker and Ignatian traditions. The seminal work in the Listening Hearts Series, this bestselling book has been a beloved resource for tens of thousands of individual readers, retreat participants, small groups, and church leaders listening for and responding to God's call in their lives.

Corazones que escuchan: Discernir el llamado en comunidad (Spanish Edition)

Review\nWith updated language, revised appendices, and added stories, Listening Hearts can impart the deep wisdom embedded in its pages to new generations of those who seek to answer the call of Jesus to ‘follow me.’ --The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church\nWhat a wonderful book! . . . Clear, concise, and a delightful guide to living in the spirit, whether you are called to the religious life or just a person wanting to live faithfully. --Therese Taylor-Stinson, editor, Embodied Spirits\nMy parish used Listening Hearts in our part of discerning calls to ordained ministry. The experience was so rewarding that several people asked for committees to help them use the book in discerning next steps not at all related to ordination: just the ways in which they might hear God’s call in their lives. --Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, author of Called\nThis 30th anniversary edition presents the unique approach of Listening Hearts to the spiritual practice of discernment for a new generation.\nWritten to make the often elusive and usually clergy-centered spiritual practice of discernment accessible to all people, Listening Hearts features simple reflections and exercises drawn from scripture and from Quaker and Ignatian traditions. The seminal work in the Listening Hearts Series, this book has been a beloved resource for tens of thousands of individual readers, retreat participants, small groups, and church leaders listening for and responding to God’s call in their lives.\n“With updated language, revised appendices, and added stories, Listening Hearts can impart the deep wisdom embedded in its pages to new generations of those who seek to answer the call of Jesus to ‘follow me’.” –The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community (30th Anniversary Edition)

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