Good Devotionals

My utmost For His Highest

 

Pathways David Jeremiah I think is good always enjoy it.

 

Maybe you're using the word "deeper" in a different sense than I'm understanding it, but deeper and devotional is an oxymoron when used together.

 

I would define deep and devotional as follows:

Deep means "digging" to ascertain what the original writer intended to convey to his original hearers. This means cross referencing other texts, determining context, using additional resources (such as word usage, history, customs), etc. Deep is an objective study

Devotion means fixing your mind upon Christ in prayer, along with the text, to ascertain what God is saying to you today. This means you read the text, pray, listen to the Holy Spirit, and you really aren't concerned with context, etc. unless it applies specifically to make the point. Devotion is subjective

That's why I say deep and devotion is an oxymoron, because if you're not digging, you're not gonna get too deep.

 

Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups
by Richard J. Foster

Here is the goodreads URL


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1531503.Devotional_Classics


I bought this one many, many years ago and was blessed by it. If you aren't threatened by the idea of reading snippets from the writings of many different Christian traditions then you many enjoy this. This is arraigned like a "greatest hits" collection from many of the great Christian writers, theologians, mystics, and preachers throughout the centuries. They include pre-Nicene writers such as Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom; Perhaps more familiar names from antiquity such as Augustine, Francis of Assisi; then reformation era writers such as John of the Cross, Calvin, and Luther; Then names such as John Bunyan, John Wesley, and Charles Spurgeon; and near contemporaries such as C.S. Lewis, Watchman Nee, and Dietrich Bonheoffer. The list goes on and on.