Spiritual Growth in a Time of Change: Following God in Midlife
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
How to navigate a spiritual journey through these years, leading to deeper faith and a closer walk with God.
Our 40s and 50s can be times of change and turbulent emotional transitions as we encounter a range of challenging personal issues. They can also be some of the most important years of our lives in spiritual terms.
Tony Horsfall addresses a number of ‘midlife’ issues - from facing up to the past to renegotiating relationships - and explores how to navigate a spiritual journey through these years, leading to deeper faith and a closer walk with God.
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- Includes some exercises with each chapter to help in the process of reflection
- Offers a series of five short Bible reflections interspersed among its chapters
- Addresses ‘midlife’ issues and explores how to navigate a spiritual journey through these years
- Understanding midlife
- Stepping into midlife
- Charting a course
- Coming to terms with the past
- Finding my true identity
- Growing in authenticity
- Embracing my shadow
- Maturing in faith
- Relationships in midlife
- Leadership in midlife
- Vocation
- Legacy
- Partnership
- Waymarks
Early Midlife
Middle Midlife
Later Midlife
Midlife can be a tricky season. Not all make the transition well. Tony Horsfall draws extensively on the writings of others, and introduces us to concepts and resources for the journey. He offers us a clear, wise and practical guide to steer us through the various challenges and opportunities. It’s a great guide for anyone navigating the tricky waters of midlife. I’ll be using it myself, and recommending it to others.
--James Lawrence, CPAS Leadership Principal
This book reveals how our midlife experience, and the path through which the Holy Spirit seeks to form us, are in fact the same journey towards significant growth. Tony Horsfall brings together a great deal of wisdom from an impressive number of sources. Once again, he succeeds in exploring deep spiritual and psychological points in such a simple and authentic manner that you feel like you could share and recommend his words amongst a great many people; a rare gift.
--Richard Hann, formerly Penhurst Retreat Centre
Navigate the midlife transition well and our finest, most fruitful years lie ahead of us. That’s the message I’ve taken away from this gem of a book. Through biblical reflection, insights from the social sciences and wisdom drawn from his own personal and professional life, Tony Horsfall helps us understand the longings, tensions and questions of the midlife season while showing us how to utilise its inherent opportunities. Spiritual Growth in a Time of Change charts a course to new identity, purpose and fulfilment in God. I highly recommend it.
--Sheridan Voysey, writer, speaker, broadcaster, and author
- Title: Spiritual Growth in a Time of Change
- Author: Tony Horsfall
- Publisher: Bible Reading Fellowship
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Pages: 152
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781800392021, 1800392028
- Resource ID: LLS:SPRTLGRWTHTCHNG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-03T21:09:28Z
Tony Horsfall is a freelance trainer and retreat leader, whose work regularly takes him around the world. He has written a number of books for BRF, including Mentoring for Spiritual Growth, Working from a Place of Rest and Rhythms of Grace. He also contributes to New Daylight Bible reading notes.