Journey with Jesus - by Larry Warner (Paperback)

About the Book

In Journey with Jesus, spiritual director Larry Warner guides us through the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, similar to the way he's been leading people through them in person. Ignatius wanted to help everyone, no matter what age or stage of life, experience Jesus. Through prayers and Scripture readings that largely focus on the life of Christ, the Spiritual Exercises that have been so powerful and growth-inducing for so many, including Warner, can be a tool for transformation in you as well.

Book Synopsis

In Journey with Jesus, spiritual director Larry Warner guides us through the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, similar to the way he's been leading people through them in person. Here's what he's observed: "The Spiritual Exercises helped people reconnect with Jesus and with themselves in life-giving ways. It was powerful."Ignatius wanted to help everyone, no matter what age or stage of life, experience Jesus. Through prayers and Scripture readings that largely focus on the life of Christ, the Spiritual Exercises that have been so powerful and growth-inducing for so many, including Warner, can be a tool for transformation in you as well. The exercises are designed to help you

• encounter the person of Jesus
• foster a deeper relational knowing of Jesus
• cultivate a greater desire and freedom to say yes to Jesus

This book will guide you through Ignatius's traditional retreat approach as a nine-month journey which allows you to take these practices into the "real world" each day.And you don't have to go on a retreat to do it. You can start now, and grow in Christlikeness right in the midst of your life. Are you hungry for Jesus and ready to do something about it? Are you committed to a sticking with a sustained journey of growth and formation in Christ? Then this book is for you. Open these pages, and let Warner guide you on the journey toward deeper intimacy with Jesus.

Review Quotes

"[Warner] mine[s] the riches of Catholic spirituality for readers of a non-Catholic persuasion."

"A rich and valuable resource for spiritual formation, this work succeeds in presenting the Exercises as an attractive and effective 'curriculum for Christlikeness.' Warner has made an important contribution to the spiritual renewal sought by Christians today by making this time-honored means of spiritual transformation accessible to Christians of all denominations."

"In Journey with Jesus, Larry Warner has retrieved a five-hundred-year-old spiritual practice and revealed its practical significance for Christians of the twenty-first century. This insightful and reader-friendly presentation of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola is the product of more than ten years' experience. To follow his wisdom and experience in Journey with Jesus is to discover the transforming power of the life of Jesus."

"The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius is one of very few works produced by followers of Christ that reliably guides those who have seriously put their confidence in Christ onto a path where what we Christians endlessly talk about becomes the reality of daily existence. This is because Ignatius guides the disciple into experience of the things we talk about. The reality stands out in the details of what is experienced. But for most, trying to take the Exercises straight is like trying to board the airplane when it is already a hundred feet off the ground. Larry Warner's Journey with Jesus effectively brings the Exercises within reach of any disciple of Jesus ready to work with grace to turn life in the kingdom of the heavens with Jesus into their actual existence."

About the Author

Larry Warner has trained in spiritual direction at Azusa Pacific University's Graduate School and the University of San Diego. He has been leading retreats since 1980 and is the founder and executive director of "b." He teaches for the Institute for Spiritual Formation at Talbot Seminary and is also the author of Imaginative Prayer in Youth Ministry.