Devotional Resources

[Reflective Queries]

A common devotional reading connects NET Groups in another important way. The following list of twenty-five classics provides an ample selection, but NET Groups could also benefit by using some more recent writings, such as Listening to Your Life, by Frederick Buechner; Lighting a Candle: Quotations on the Spiritual Life, edited by Molly Young Brown; Living in the Presence, by Tilden Edwards; or Finding Your Own Spiritual Path, by Peg Thompson. Also, Richard Foster's work with the Renovare devotional material would complement the reading of the classics.

1. A Testament of Devotion, by Thomas Kelly
2. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, by William Law
3. The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes
4. Meditations of the Heart, by Howard Thurman
5. The Little Flowers of St. Francis
6. Confessions of St. Augustine
7. The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis
8. Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
9. The Journal of John Woolman
10. A Diary of Private Prayer, by John Baillie
11. The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life, by Hannah Whitall Smith
12. Surprised by Joy, by C.S. Lewis
13. No Man Is an Island, by Thomas Merton
14. Dr. Johnson's Prayers, edited by D. Elton Trueblood
15. The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
16. Creative Prayer, by E. Herman
17. Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
18. I and Thou, by Martin Buber
19. Devotions, by John Donne
20. Introduction to the Devout Life, by Francis of Sales
21. The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
22. The Dark Night of the Soul, by John of the Cross
23. Reality in Worship, by Willard L. Sperry
24. The Journal of John Wesley
25. The Journal of George Fox