GOING DEEPER

In this Perspective we want to feature three new/old products: In Search of Guidance, Coming Home: An Invitation to Prayer and a "Prayer Calendar".

It is a special treat to recommend Dallas Willard's book, In Search of Guidance. Originally published by Regal, it has been updated and reissued by HarperSanFrancisco.

The best book on the market about knowing the will of God, In Search of Guidance, cuts through externals and emphasizes that true direction comes only from Christ. All of us at one time or another are guilty of trying to serve the Lord with a narrow focus on acts and deeds. This book helps guide us into creating an intimate partnership with God and becoming co-laborers for the kingdom.

The other products—Coming Home: An Invitation to Prayer and a "Prayer Calendar"—contain excerpts from Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home in two different formats.

Coming Home is a gift edition book with the text taken from the introduction of Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home. Accompanied by illustrative paintings, the excerpt can create a thirst for a deeper spirituality in people from all walks of life.

The "Prayer Calendar" is perpetual and includes a sentence from Prayer for every day of the year along with reproductions of original watercolors. Anyone who has to keep track of specific days will appreciate this reminder of our need and—often suppressed—desire to pray.

All three of these products can be used by a broad range of people: business owners, students, homemakers, law officers, nurses, parents, teachers. And they are ideal Christmas and special occasion presents for families and friends.

GROWING PAINS

Continue to pray that we will discern where God wants our office to be located. We have narrowed the possibilities down to four places and will make a final decision very soon.

Great news! A Spiritual Formation Workbook is now in third printing and the Devotional Classics is in second. Our office has sold almost one thousand Workbooks and over six hundred Classics in the past six months. They are stocked in secular stores such as Barnes & Noble on the East Coast in addition to Christian bookstores. If you have trouble ordering or finding these two items, emphasize that they are listed as RENOVARÉ Resources for Spiritual Renewal and published by HarperSanFrancisco. Better yet, order them from us!

The RENOVARÉ Retreats held at Glen Eyrie Conference Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, continue to be popular and well attended. Richard Foster and Donn Thomas led two retreats in July that had a total attendance of over one hundred fifty people.

Six hundred twenty-three people registered for the RENOVARÉ Local Conference on Personal Spiritual Renewal held in Edina, Minnesota, on September 10-11. The conference in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 24-25 had around three hundred attendees.