Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

To train the body, strengthening its muscles, increasing its

cardiovascular health, and improving its agility, you need to do exercises like

stretching, running, and lifting weights. To train the soul, expanding its

capacity, you likewise need to perform exercises, in this case what are called spiritual disciplines.

Practices like fasting, silence, self-examination, study, and simplicity.

As a pastor, John Mark Comer approaches the spiritual disciplines from a Christian perspective,

as the habits and practices from the way of Jesus that allow individuals to make deeper layers

themselves available to grace and access the transforming power that's

necessary to become what John Mark calls a person of love. But the practices that

are considered spiritual disciplines can be found across different religions and even philosophies like stoicism,

and can be utilized by people from varied backgrounds to deepen their inner life and strength,

center themselves in chaos, find greater purpose, and subdue base their desires to reach for higher ideals.

Today on the show, John Mark offers an introduction to the spiritual disciplines and the way that can

be an act of resistance, a way for us to form our own values and rhythms in life,

instead of allowing our lives to be formed by the defaults and external forces of our age.

After the show's over, check at our show notes at AIM.IS slash spiritual disciplines. All right. All right, John Mark Comer, welcome to the show.

Very happy to be on.

Thanks for the invite.

So something that you've written about in your books,

the ruthless elimination of Hurry in practicing the way is the idea of

spiritual disciplines which are habits and practices that help us train our

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