Elliott Cooke

The Five Disciplines for Christians are imperative for spiritual growth. These five disciplines are: fellowship, Bible study, prayer, ministry, and witnessing. The Christian will not grow to maturity in Christ without all five, but most Christians don't know what they are. This book will help the reader to rediscover these ancient biblical practices which will bring them closer to God, transform the world around them, and provide personal fulfillment. The book is broken down into five sections, one for each discipline. Each section provides the biblical mandate, describes the nuances of the discipline, identifies challenges to its practice, and gives tools to enhance one's routine.

Revision with unchanged content. How do men learn to be fathers? In an age where the role of father in family life is going through a bit of an adjustment, this seminal work seeks to break new ground. Imagine a mechanic who does not understand the basic principles of the combustion engine and translate that to a family therapist who does not understand how men learn to be fathers and you start to understand the importance of this work. Surprisingly little is known about this process of learning the role of fatherhood from a communication per-spec-tive. What are the most frequent fatherhood messages, from what sources do they come, and in what contexts are they conveyed? Under-stan-d-ing this process yields invaluable insights to many disciplines and may hold the key to assisting men in being better fathers. Is there a more fundamental need in the study of family life today? This must read book makes a con-vin-cing case that there is not.