Supporting the Journey of Spiritual Formation
The Christian Practices Initiative provides resources designed to support believers as they grow in the historic rhythms of the Christian life.
These resources include classic Christian writings, practical guides, devotional tools, and daily rhythms that help believers engage more fully in prayer, Scripture, silence, wisdom, and faithful living.
Featured Resources
These resources are offered to help believers move from information to formation. Some are classic texts from the history of Christian spirituality. Others are practical guides created to support daily rhythms of prayer, Scripture, reflection, and attentiveness to God.
Daily Office
The Daily Office provides a simple rhythm of prayer throughout the day. These prayer offices help believers begin, pause, reflect, and rest in God’s presence.
Daily Devotionals
These devotional resources help believers reflect, pray, read Scripture, and grow in attentiveness to God’s presence throughout daily life.
Classic and Practical Guides
The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict is one of the most influential guides to Christian spiritual life ever written. Composed in the sixth century, it provides practical wisdom for cultivating a life centered on prayer, humility, obedience, and faithful daily work.
Within the Christian Practices Initiative, this resource supports the Daily Office course by helping participants understand historic rhythms of prayer, Scripture, work, rest, and community.
The Confessions of Saint Augustine is one of the most enduring works in Christian spirituality. Written as prayer, theological reflection, and personal testimony, it traces Augustine’s journey into a life transformed by grace.
This resource helps believers reflect honestly on desire, repentance, memory, mercy, and the deep longing of the human heart for God.
Daily Strength Training is a devotional guide designed to help believers develop a consistent rhythm of prayer through the historic practice of the Daily Office.
It provides a thirty-day introduction to structured daily prayer, incorporating Scripture readings, psalms, and traditional prayers that help shape a life of attentiveness to God.
The Daily Office Workbook is a guided resource designed to help believers move beyond simply learning about prayer and into establishing a steady rhythm of daily prayer.
Through guided exercises, reflection questions, and Rule of Life integration, the workbook supports sustainable rhythms of prayer, Scripture engagement, and spiritual formation.
The Ladder of Monks is a classic work on Christian spiritual formation written by Guigo II. It describes a simple but profound pathway of engaging Scripture through reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation.
This resource provides foundational support for Lectio Divina and helps participants develop a sustained rhythm of encountering God through His Word.
The Conferences of John Cassian is a foundational work of early Christian spirituality. Through conversations with experienced monks, Cassian explores the inner life of the believer, purity of heart, prayer, self-denial, and continual awareness of God.
This resource complements the Lectio Divina and Silence practices by helping illuminate the inner transformation that takes place through sustained spiritual practice.
Daily Sage Intake is a devotional guide designed to help believers cultivate wisdom for everyday life through consistent engagement with the book of Proverbs.
Through brief, consistent readings and reflection, participants are invited to grow in discernment, integrity, and the habit of choosing the next right thing.
The Lectio Divina Workbook is a guided journey into the ancient Christian practice of prayerful Scripture reading through the movements of reading, pondering, responding, and resting.
Through twelve lessons, participants are invited to slow down, listen attentively to Scripture, respond honestly to God, and develop a sustainable rhythm of being formed by the Word.
The Way of a Pilgrim is a classic Christian spiritual narrative following a pilgrim’s search to understand and practice the biblical invitation to pray without ceasing.
Through his journey and his discovery of the Jesus Prayer, readers encounter a simple vision of prayer moving from deliberate practice toward a heart increasingly turned toward God.
Daily Psalt Intake is a devotional guide designed to help believers develop a regular rhythm of prayer and reflection through the Psalms.
Through morning and evening readings, participants are invited to let the language of the Psalms shape their prayers and carry the words of Scripture with them throughout the day.
The Living Word Workbook is a guided journey into carrying Scripture and prayer in the heart throughout the ordinary moments of the day.
Through twelve lessons, participants learn to receive, remember, return to, and respond to God’s Word as Scripture gradually becomes part of a continuing life of prayer.
The Practice of the Presence of God gathers the conversations and letters of Brother Lawrence, whose ordinary life became a school of continual awareness of God.
Through his simple reflections, readers are invited to discover how work, prayer, daily responsibilities, and even small acts can become occasions for communion with God.
Daily Life Intake is a thirty-day journey into learning to receive life from God rather than trying to manufacture life through our own effort.
Through Scripture, reflection, and daily practice, participants are invited to trust God as their source, listen for His direction, and develop a rhythm of returning to Him throughout the day.
The Practice of the Presence Workbook is a guided journey into learning to live with greater awareness of God’s presence in the ordinary moments of everyday life.
Through twelve lessons and the FLOW rhythm of Focus, Listen, Observe, and Worship, participants learn to return their attention to God and develop a sustainable life of attentiveness.
You do not need to use every resource at once. Choose one rhythm, one prayer, one reading, or one practice, and allow God to use it to shape your life over time.