Essentials In Songwriting is a 4 week online worship course (6 hours/week) that focuses on foundational spiritual habits for the follower of Jesus.

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In ESSENTIALS IN SPIRITUAL FORMATION, you’ll explore the riches of spiritual formation ideas across history, and engage with spiritual habits essential to every 21st century worshiper and spiritual leader. Formation is all about being transformed into the likeness of Christ by attending to our interior life of devotion. When our interior life of devotion becomes “larger,” and more “expansive” than our exterior life of activity, we are beginning down a pathway that leads to spiritual health for the long haul.

We do this by studying together Dan’s new eBook, The Elemental Life, reflecting on the earth (a grounded life), wind (an inspired life), fire (an empowered life) and water (a communal life) of a healthy spirituality.

This module also has a view to equipping you with spiritual formation practices gleaned from historic, Benedictine, Ignatian and contemporary tradition that you can use to lead others in their journey toward the likeness of Christ.

In Essentials In Spiritual Formation, you will create a spiritual formation exercise from beginning to completion, with training via our course book and online media. Students have selected readings and media to get familiar with each week, and then post/interact on a weekly discussion question as a community.

At the end, the Creative Project is a unique spiritual formation experience you will create, honed throughout our online studies together, which gets posted to our Creative Commons for others to use, comment on and encourage you in. It could be for your family, your small group, church, your fellow participants and beyond. It’s an exciting part of our course.

Schedule:

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Mar. 5 – April. 1, 2010 (Register by February 26) :: July 9 – Aug. 6, 2010 :: Nov. 5 – Dec. 3, 2010

WEEK 1: Essential Spiritual Formation: Earth – A Grounded Life.

WEEK 2: Essential Spiritual Formation: Wind – An Inspired Life.

WEEK 3: Essential Spiritual Formation: Fire – An Empowered Life.

WEEK 4: Essential Spiritual Formation: Water – A Communal Life.

Which Books/Resources Are Required?

Devotional Classics, Revised Edition: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups. Edited by Richard Foster and James Bryan Smith. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2005. - Required for all Participants.

The Elemental Life. Dan Wilt, M.Min. This new eBook will be provided free of charge to anyone taking the course. Required for all participants.