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.
"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."
*Wilkie W. Au, Journal of Spiritual Formation Soul Care, November
2011*
"[Warner] mine[s] the riches of Catholic spirituality for readers
of a non-Catholic persuasion."
*Mark Galli, Christianity Today, October 2010*
"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."
*Albert Haase, O.F.M., author of Coming Home to Your True Self*
"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."
*Dallas Willard, author of Renovation of the Heart*
"This book needs a warning label: 'Caution--serious engagement with
the practices, disciplines and techniques set forth in this book
will be destructive to everything in your life that is not yet
conformed to the image of Jesus.' Warner has provided an invaluable
resource for any who desire to live in loving union with God and to
live Christlike lives in the world. Here the Spiritual Exercises of
Ignatius have been made accessible to contemporary believers . . .
in a manner that facilitates their use in any sincere desire to
know God and live with Jesus."
*Robert Mulholland, author of The Deeper Journey*
"I have witnessed over the past years numerous students using these
exercises to open their personal life to Jesus at a deep emotional
level and experience the meaning of the gospel and the Scripture
from the inside out. This is spiritual reading of the Word in its
most meaningful sense. The reader will particularly benefit from
Warner's spiritual advice that comes from years of experience with
others on the journey in praying over the life of Christ."
*John Coe, director, Institute for Spiritual Formation, Talbot
School of Theology*
"Contained in these pages is an experience of a lifetime, guided by
a seasoned master who knows the Spiritual Exercises so well that
they're his second language. Drink deeply and enjoy this adventure
with Jesus."
*Jan Johnson, spiritual director and author of Spiritual
Disciplines Companion and Invitation to the Jesus Life*
"Larry Warner brings the Exercises alive by providing the guidance,
expertise and wisdom necessary to navigate the Exercises well. In
both the practical and spiritual aspects of this volume, Larry
leads you . . . before a God who, in the work of Christ, shows that
his love is truly enough."
*Kyle Strobel, cofounder of Metamorpha.com*
"Larry Warner has done us a great service by translating a complex
sixteenth-century retreat manual (The Spiritual Exercises of St.
Ignatius) into a highly usable format that brings alive this
spiritual treasure. Warner makes it possible for
twenty-first-century people to engage in the Ignatian exercises
that lead one into a living relationship with Jesus. I am impressed
that he has been able to remain true to the original nature of the
exercises even while recasting them into a contemporary context.
This is not the first attempt at updating the Exercises . . . but
it is, to my mind, the best such effort."
*Richard Peace, Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism and
Spiritual Formation, Fuller Theological Seminary*
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