Practicing the Way:
Be with Jesus.
Become like him.
Do as he did.

It’s not enough to slow down and simplify our lives; we need to live with a greater level of intentionality in our apprenticeship to Jesus.

The first followers of Jesus developed a Rule of Life, a set of habits and practices based on the life of Jesus himself, that put God at the center of their lives. They made space for God to do what they could not — form them into people who are like their rabbi, Jesus.

Practicing the Way is a vision for the future that has been shaped by the wisdom of the past — a time when to be a Christian meant to apprentice under Jesus in living. As an introduction to spiritual formation, it’s accessible to beginners and lifelong followers of Jesus. It’s also the culmination of many years of learning, thinking, working, and teaching on spiritual formation, and my manifesto for the future of the church in the post-Christian West.

This book is an invitation to apprenticeship to Jesus and a guide for a more embodied faith. Through practices like Sabbath, prayer, solitude, and other everyday rhythms from the life of Jesus, we can open deeper and deeper layers of our souls to Jesus to heal and transform.

The future is ancient.

It’s practicing the Way.

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What we believe about God will shape the person we become.

We all live at the mercy of our ideas and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is that many of our ideas about God, while not all wrong, are wrong enough to keep us from fully knowing him.

God Has a Name guides us line by line through Exodus 34v6-8 – God's self-revelation of his inner nature on Mount Sinai – so we can discover a new way of communing with God in light of what he reveals about himself.

No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, the vision of God revealed in Exodus 34 has the potential to alter your life with God and shape the person you become.

This expanded edition includes a new section on the practice of contemplation, including an exploration of three doorways into contemplation in our distracted digital world.

As we learn to gaze deeply at God (through practice and grace over time), the moments we find ourselves “looking” at God become the most joyful and peaceful of our day – and some of the most transformative moments in our lives.