The author shares the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has put away and forgotten. He encourages us to celebrate those disciplines because they are instruments of joy and the way to spiritual maturity and abundant life. Through many examples, we will see how these disciplines can be part of our daily lives and bring the 'abundance of God into our lives'. From the Back Cover The author shares the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has put away and forgotten. He encourages us to celebrate those disciplines because they are instruments of joy and the way to spiritual maturity and abundant life. Through many examples, we will see how these disciplines can be part of our daily lives and bring the ?abundance of God into our lives?. About the Author Richard J. Foster is the author of several bestselling books, including Celebration of Discipline, Streams of Living Water, and Prayer, which in 1993 was Christianity Today's Book of the Year and the winner of the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is the founder of RENOVARE, an intrachurch movement committed to the renewal of the Church in all her multifaceted expressions, and the editor of the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible. SPANISH BIO: Richard J. Foster (D.Th.P., Fuller Theological Seminary) es el fundador de Renovare en Denver, Colorado. Es autor de numerosos libros, entre ellos Celebracion de la disciplina: Hacia una vida espiritual mas profunda, que ha vendido mas de dos millones de copias en todo el mundo, La Oracion: Verdadero refugio del alma, La libertad de la simplicidad: encontrar la armonia en un mundo complejo y coautor (con Gayle Beebe) de El anhelo de Dios: Siete Senderos de la devocion cristiana.