Spiritual Formation

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GFM Group Prayer/Meditation Resources

The ESN blog has partnered with Emerging Scholars as writers of content for and by graduate students and faculty. The material these writers have shared with the Emerging Scholars Network has been such an encouragement. Hannah Eagleson, an editor and writer for ESN collected some of the best resources for your reference as you plan events for your chapter, fellowship, small group, or prayer meetings. We are so grateful to the ESN Blog writers for these contributions.

Tags: Faculty Prayer Groups | Bible Study | Lent | Spiritual formation
Prayers for Field Areas

We're excited to launch a new series of prayers for academics in specific field areas at blog.emergingscholars.org. Our hope is that each prayer will encourage those in a particular subject area in the specificity of their daily work, while also giving those in other fields a glimpse into how their colleagues are glorifying God in different areas of inquiry.

Tags: Prayer
A Journey of Vocation: ESN Weekly Readings for Grad Students

Whether you just started graduate school or are almost finished, our weekly fall readings are designed to help you journey forward with a strong sense of calling to God’s work in the university. Read and discuss with a small group, or reflect on your own. Click here to go to the readings on the Emerging Scholars Blog.

Tags: Scripture | Bible Study
Habits of Grace

Through a challenging year, Professor Rachel Ferguson moves from an intellectual engagement with the Christian faith to a fuller understanding of discipleship, embracing new practices to truly dwell in Christ, leading to the spiritual transformation she needed, and that we all deeply desire.

Tags: Prayer | Spiritual formation | Faculty Ministry | Lamp Post
Communal Scripture Reading Program

A Grace and Mercy grant (allocated by Tom Lin) allows us to award incentive grants to 15 GFM campus staff to pilot Communal Scripture Reading on campus during 2019. This fits with a “key action” in our new GFM Strategic Plan: to resource GFM staff for excellence in training student and faculty in scripture engagement and faith/work integration. Read more about this grant opportunity.

Tags: Prayer | Grant | Bible Study
Collaboration Changes Everything

Joe Thackwell invites GFM staff to read about his experience that led to a deepening sense that God is multiplying and blessing our efforts to ask good and hard questions about the emerging adults and universities we desire to see transformed. He would love your feedback on his presentation and work with David Williams, sharing how they collaborated to create a seminar track for the Experiencing Life with God Conference in 2018 and  inviting you to explore these questions as well.

Tags: Questions | Emerging Adults | Collaboration
Our God of Abundance

Lisa Liou encourages InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministry staff to have a mindset of abundance rather than scarcity as God stands ready to pour out blessings upon us.

Tags: Abundance | Inside GFM | MPD
A Pregnant Pause: An Advent Devotional

As we enter Advent on December 3rd, we would like to invite faculty and students to enjoy a free visual devotional experience as you spend time alone with God this Christmas season. This weekly devotional experience, created by lnterVarsity staff minister, Bette Lynn Dickinson, features a beautifully hand-painted original series, Scriptures, prayers and questions to guide you through the days that lead to our Savior's birth.

May God speak to us and fill us with the hope that was born that first Christmas. Learn more and download the complete Advent series.

Tags: Advent | Faculty Ministry
Campus Prayer Walk

A Prayer Walk is a spiritual discipline that allows participants to carry a posture of prayer and listening to God’s spirit as they walk, observe, and pray for the people and surroundings in which they find themselves. Use this guide for prayer walks on your campus.

Tags: Spiritual formation | Prayer | Prayer walk
The Decline of the Secular University: Discussion Guide

Brief, hard-hitting and often brilliant, this treatise by C. John Sommerville (Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida and member of the Faculty Ministry Advisory Council) builds the controversial argument that secular universities in America have neglected religion at their peril. (Publishers Weekly) C. John Sommerville's study of the secular university is an excellent choice for reading with fellow Christian faculty.

Tags: Book Discussion | Faculty Communities | Faculty Ministry

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