Spiritual Maturity

MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A road map for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative. Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was the pastor of a growing church, he did what most people...

Spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity and shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and achieve happiness and self-realization.

The time: approximately 1,200 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. The place: the Sinai Peninsula, that barren and remote desert that separated Egypt from the Promised Land of Israel. Into this burning crucible, Moses led the children of Israel. They were on foot fleeing the bondage of Egypt, where they had spent the last 480 years. They were on their way to claiming their inheritance, a land they had never seen, a land flowing with milk and honey.

An inspiring look at Ephesians, opening our eyes to the process of Christian living and maturity in three words: Sit: our position in Christ. Walk: our life in the world. Stand: our attitude toward the Enemy. An invaluable tool for the growing disciple.

Too many believers treat salvation like fire insurance. They are happy to have their ticket to heaven but fail to fulfill their responsibility to grow spiritually now. Moved by such common negligence, Conrad Mbewe encourages us to pursue a fruitful life by considering how God equips Christians to grow and the value of diligently striving for godliness.

Part of the bestselling Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book collection, The Emotionally Healthy Woman provides women a way out of surface-level spirituality to genuine freedom in Christ. Geri Scazzero knew there was something desperately wrong with her life. She felt like a single parent...

This book, 5 Steps to Spiritual Maturity, offers five simple steps to help Christians mature in Christ. Ephesians 4:15 says, " ...we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ..." (ESV).

God has instructed me to share with you how to become spiritually mature. We will look at five elements that must be present in the Christian's life in order to become a mature believer. First, we are called to live a life of faith, pleasing God. We are also called to expect God to come through and deliver what we believe Him for; we must have hope, a confident expectation in God. In addition to this, we must have agape love to go along with our faith and hope. Equally important, we are called to have patience and to be steadfast and secure until we receive the manifestation of our answer ...

In II Corinthians 13:5 we are told to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith. In Lamentations 3:40 we are told to examine our ways and test them, and to return to doing things the Lord's way. In I Corinthians 11:28 we are to examine ourselves before we partake of communion, to see if we are right with God. In Hebrews 12:15 we are to see to it that no one among us falls short of the grace that God has given us. Galatians 6:4 tells each of us to test his own actions. The writer of Psalm 139:23-24 implores the Lord to search his heart and find out if there is any wicked way in him ...

Is God speaking to me? Most Christians know God speaks through His Word, but when He speaks through the spiritual senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, it can leave a person feeling crazy! In You Can Hear the Voice of God Through All Your Spiritual Senses, the author shares how she came to her senses in Christ in more ways than one! Have you ever dared to ask or believe that there might be more—now—on this side of Heaven? More that we don't have to wait to access? More of something on which you just can't quite put your finger? That's how Sallie Dawkins felt. She was no ...

Inner discipline eventually becomes visible through outward expression especially in speech. Daily Study #36: Expressing Wisdom Through Measured Speech begins Week 6 of the Daily Studies series by exploring how matured discipline is revealed through intentional communication. Drawing from Proverbs 17:27, this short daily reflection encourages readers to practice restraint, clarity, and discernment in their words. Written for thoughtful readers seeking steady formation rather than reactive expression, this study emphasizes that wisdom is demonstrated through measured speech and intentional ...

What if protecting your peace wasn’t selfish — but sacred? There comes a moment in life when the noise stops feeling normal. The arguments that once felt necessary begin to feel exhausting. The relationships that once felt energizing begin to feel heavy. The environments you once tolerated start disturbing something deeper inside your spirit. You begin choosing quiet. Not because you have nothing to say… But because you no longer need to prove that you are right. In Sacred Territory, author Bill Riggs explores the powerful transformation that occurs when a person learns to guard the ...

A thoughtful, encouraging reason to believe that God is good, even when life is not. Many of us want to trust God, but we just can’t. We have trust issues. We see heartbreak in the world, or experience it personally, and don’t understand how a good God could have allowed it. We have...

For decades the church has invested in programs, courses, workshops, seminars, sermons, etc. to develop leadership potential. However, research and testimony shows that for all her effort, the church leadership is struggling with unprecedented moral failure and clinical burnout. This Little Book is a Scriptural argument that wants to wrestle with the question 'why?' What are we missing that our leaders, and even our members, fail to go the distance? What have we forgotten, or conveniently laid aside, in our pursuit of leadership? And most importantly, what can we do about it? The "Schalk's ...

THIS BOOK IS PART OF A TRILOGY: THE DEEP WORK OF GOD IN THE HUMAN SOUL THE FEAR OF GOD: The Doctrine, Practice, and Power of Holy Awe in the Life of the Believer In The Fear of God, Eternal Bliss delivers one of the most searching and necessary books the church needs in this hour, written with a prophetic voice and directness. Drawing from over twenty years of walking with God — including a significant wilderness period that shaped my life, spiritual transformation, and theology at its deepest level — I write not as a distant theological observer but as someone who has lived every word ...

From a Biblical perspective of our human nature, we are "spirit and soul and body" (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Understanding each dimension of our being and how each is to relate to the others, according to God's created order, is a strategic key of the Kingdom of God. Come take hold of this key that will revolutionize and revitalize your spiritual journey! Our human spirit should abide in deep communion with God’s Holy Spirit. Then our human spirit—infused and led by the Holy Spirit—should direct the mind, will, and emotions of our human soul, which should manifest in the health and well...

Meditation has been framed as refuge. Silence as cure. Awareness as proof of peace. What Returns Unchanged Was Never Finished dismantles those assumptions—carefully, ethically, and without romance. This book is not an attack on contemplative practice. It is a reckoning with how practice quietly fails when integration is assumed rather than designed for. Written for experienced practitioners, meditation and yoga teachers, therapists-adjacent facilitators, and anyone responsible for holding others in depth work, What Returns Unchanged Was Never Finished introduces a rigorous new framework ...

Reality feels solid. Experience tells another story. Identity shifts. Perception filters. Interpretation shapes what is lived. The world appears stable, yet experience is fluid and relational. Dream Craft: Lucidity for Waking Life explores what it means to inhabit that tension clearly. Neither escapism nor domination. Neither nihilism nor cosmic authorship. Integrating nondual insight with participatory responsibility, the author draws from contemplative philosophy and relational psychology to offer a sober alternative to both spiritual detachment and inflated manifestation culture. In a ...

“It is not easy to describe the distinctive richness of a fully mature personality. There are as many ways of developing and growing as there are individuals, and in each case the final product is unique. But if we look for general criteria to distinguish a fully developed personality from another immature, there are three distinguishing features that are essential and universal […] The extension of self, introspection and a unifying philosophy of life”. - This study puts into contact two apparently very different worlds: the 6th-century monastic milieu of Dorotheus and the research ...

DR. MARK KAUFFMAN: There are a few authorities in the apostolic movement who could offer such insight, foresight, and balanced perspective of the times and seasons that we are in like Dr. John. This masterpiece “Pattern For Glory” is a spiritual GPS to lead the church of Jesus Christ into the age of glory! DR. RON COTTLE: I recommend this book to every believer in Christ at whatever stage or level of spiritual maturity you have reached... Thanks, John! This book will be a great tool of ministry and inspiration for life leaders everywhere, both inside and outside the local church... PS. ...