Sacred Pathways, Gary  Thomas
Sacred Pathways, Gary  Thomas
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Sacred Pathways
Nine Ways to Connect with God

Author: Gary Thomas

Narrator: Gary L. Thomas

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 09/08/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Sacred Pathways reveals nine distinct spiritual temperaments--and their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies--to help you improve your spiritual life and deepen your personal walk with God.It's time to strip away the frustration of a one-size-fits-all spirituality and discover a path of worship that frees you to be you. Experienced spiritual directors, pastors, and church leaders recognize that all of us engage with God differently, and it's about time we do too.In this updated and expanded edition of Sacred Pathways, Gary Thomas details nine spiritual temperaments and--like the Enneagram and other tools do with personality--encourages you to investigate the ways you most naturally express yourself in your relationship with God. He encourages you to dig into the traits, strengths, and pitfalls in your devotional approach so you can eliminate the barriers that keep you locked into rigid methods of worship and praise.Plus, as you begin to identify and understand your own temperament, you'll soon learn about the temperaments that aren't necessarily "you" but that may help you understand the spiritual tendencies of friends, family, and others around you.Whatever temperament or blend of temperaments best describes you, rest assured it's not by accident. It's by the design of a Creator who knew what he was doing when he made you according to his own unique intentions. If your spiritual walk is not what you'd like it to be, you can change that, starting here. Sacred Pathways will show you the route you were made to travel, marked by growth and filled with the riches of a close walk with God.A Sacred Pathways video Bible study is also available for group or individual use, sold separately.Accompanying exercises and discussion questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

About Gary Thomas

Gary Thomas’s writing and speaking draw people closer to Christ and closer to others. He is the author of twenty books that together have sold more than two million copies and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. These books include Sacred Marriage, Cherish, Sacred Pathways, and the Gold Medallion-award winning Authentic Faith. Gary holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Western Washington University, a master’s degree in systematic theology from Regent College (Vancouver, BC), and an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Western Seminary (Portland, OR).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean-david on December 03, 2013

This book leaves me in a bit of a predicament. On multiple levels, I have serious concerns about some of the ideas about spirituality, specifically teachings about prayer and intimacy with God in Thomas’s text. Unfortunately, this is not surprising. Thomas quotes from and cites many of what have bee......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on December 30, 2013

If I was sure of a certain level of spiritual maturity and discernment, I would be inclined to recommend this book to everyone. Unfortunately, one issue with this book means I have to be careful recommended its otherwise wonderful contents. Namely, the author seems to be of a mind that certain secti......more

Goodreads review by Adrie on July 29, 2023

I liked this book a lot. Some practical and new ways to engage with God, but each chapter could have been much shorter to really make his point clear and concise. Some practical things I took away: #1 Caregiver - I am so thankful for HCC and a job that I love that truly does use the gifts that the Lo......more

Goodreads review by Rainer on December 14, 2024

Sacred Pathways scratched an itch I’ve been feeling for a few years now. I first heard of it a few years ago at a Sabbath breakout session at a winter conference with my friend Andy. It was the primary tool in helping college students create Sabbath plans that spiritually nourish them. A few months a......more

Goodreads review by Joel on December 31, 2022

In Sacred Pathways, Gary Thomas presents a framework for spiritual formation that shattered the overly limited perspective I heard for the first twenty-five years of my life. My cataloging nine primary ways that people connect with God, Thomas empowers readers to believe that they are not broken for......more