February Archives - Lisa Colón DeLay

Almost Announcing a Podcast

UPDATE:

3/1/15

This project is on hold because of the current projects I’m working on. I will update again when we move toward this happening.

3 Things today!

1. A lot is going on behind the scenes to produce a podcast.

I’ve done a bunch of reading, learning, and research.

The logo is ready (this will be revealed later…exciting stuff, stay tuned).
The intro is done, the mixing and recording software is getting figured out…kinda… sorta…

It’ll be a half a dozen weeks, probably, until so much gets figured out…recorded, edited, produced, and uploaded.

Here are some upcoming topics if you’d like to be on the show (you can phone in or we can pre-record).

I’d like to hear from you if one of these is close to your heart.

• Best ways to rest and retreat
• Suffering that produced courage (story-based)
• Finding purpose–accidentally (story-based)
• Life-giving or growth-producing rituals
• Embarrassing Moments and Vulnerability

If you want to be a sponsor of the show and feature with a product, service, ministry, book, project, or website, use the contact page to send me a message!

2. If you like what you’ve read and what happens here, consider getting my in-depth but consice weekly correspondence coming in February.
Learn about it here.

3. There are only a few more days for you to get in on the children’s book we’ve done. It’s a fantastic project and I’m excited to share it with you. Check it out here.

Spiritual Formation vs. Discipleship (homage to Dallas Willard)

Christianity just lost a wonderful teacher. Today, Dallas Willard has died of cancer at the age of 77.

As a person who has spent countless hours learning about spiritual formation and endeavoring to be formed well, I am saddened that we’ve lost such an insightful man. A number of his books were part of my required texts and his keen wisdom helped to shape me.

In homage to him today, I will refer you to this article that is very helpful for understanding the difference between discipleship and spiritual formation and why the formation of our characters into Christ-likeness gets sidelined in churches and Christian institutions. It’s quite good.

Remember to say a prayer today for all those who grieve his loss.

article excerpt:

Interview:

What do you mean when you use the phrase spiritual formation?

Willard: In our country, on the theological right, discipleship came to mean training people to win souls. And on the left, it came to mean social action—protesting, serving soup lines, doing social deeds. Both of them left out character formation.

Isn’t character formation very much a part of many Christian schools and institutions?

Willard: What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it’s teaching of outward conformity. You don’t get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don’t obey the laws.

Read the rest here.

This is the video collection of the last conference Dallas Willard did in February on Knowing Christ, and the Dallas Willard Institute at Westmont College. (It’s excellent)

To visit the Dallas Willard Center at Westmont click here.

Here are just a few of my favorites:

Tag: February

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