Spiritual Healthcheck: 16 steps to a thriving Christian life

by Carl Laferton

Overview

We all need a spiritual healthcheck from time to time. These 16 devotions will help you to see where and how to grow in faith and joy.

This book will: help you to diagnose how you’re (honestly) doing in your faith; give you the “vitamins” you need—God’s ways of helping you to thrive; and point you to the one who enables you to really grow—the Holy Spirit.

Give yourself a spiritual healthcheck and ask for God's help to make you more like Christ.

Useful at any time of year, particularly in January as you look for a positive way to start the year ahead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784981518
Publisher:	The Good Book Company
Publication date:	11/17/2017
Product dimensions:	4.33(w) x 7.01(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

Carl Laferton is EVP Publishing/Editorial Director at TGBC. He is the best-selling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as series editor of the God's Word for You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

1. What is spiritual health?
2. Diagnosis: In love?
3. Diagnosis: Grateful?
4. Diagnosis: Excited?
5. Diagnosis: Committed?
6. Diagnosis: Godly?
7. Take your vitamins
8. Learning to pray
9. Health food
10. Church health
11. Christ in creation
12. The gift of suffering
13. The family doctor
14. The grower of fruit
15. The giver of gifts
16. Healthy living

Editorial Reviews

Carl Laferton has provided a way for you to check the health of your soul and see what you need to be spiritually healthy. The strength of the book is the accessible, interactive, concise format. Read it for yourself and give plenty of copies to your friends and family.

Tim Lane (President

A book that not only encourages us to greater spiritual well-being, but empowers us toward that goal.

Dr Frank Sellar (Moderator

Carl Laferton has provided a gift to the church in encouraging believers to see how God is working and providing hope for change. Like many believers, I have often wondered if I am growing as a Christian. The daily pressures of life, coupled with my own sin, can make it difficult to see the work that God is doing. "Spiritual Healthcheck" is a needed tool designed to help believers diagnose and treat their own spiritual health. Great to read with a friend or read it on your own.

Courtney Reissig (Author of Glory in the Ordinary and The Accidental Feminist)

This is excellent. I'm going to use it with my family to contribute to their spiritual health (and mine).

Philip Moore (European Director

Provides a brief, engaging primer for living and growing in the Christian life. This devotional is thoroughly biblical and practical. It will aid any Christian in self-assessment, while also directing their eyes to Christ by engaging in his means of grace and resting in his eternal promises. (Associate Pastor

How are you doing spiritually? That's not an easy question to consider, but it might be the most important question each of us ought to answer. Spiritual Healthcheck is a help to Christians to evaluate our spiritual health and get a proper reading on the pulse of our spiritual hearts. This book is so helpful that I'm already thinking about ways to get all the members in our church to read it!

Dave Furman (Senior Pastor of Redeemer Church Dubai; author of Being There)

What does spiritual health look like? Carl Laferton has put into our hands a simple, Scriptural tool for Christians everywhere. Spiritual Healthcheck is the discipleship tool you and everyone in your church needs to grow strong in the Lord.

Daniel Darling (Vice President for Communications at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission)

In this helpful and highly readable book Carl Laferton offers a spiritual healthcheck suitable for use by individuals, small groups or whole churches. Drawing on themes from across the Bible, and with the gospel at its heart, here is a book that diagnoses and prescribes offering realistic and practical encouragements for spiritual health and vitality.

Niall Lockhart (Minister

I absolutely love this! Buy it and use it—even better, buy many and use them with a friend, your family, your home group—even your whole church!

Ramzi Adcock (Executive Minister

Packed with penetrating questions and practical application, all rooted in Scripture.

Nathan Smith (Lead Pastor

Everyone needs a check up every now and then and Carl gives us a terrific little spiritual health check here. It helps us see where we may have drifted and then balances that out with Biblically helpful encouragement to get back on track. Here are helpfully penetrating questions and a lovely encouragement that although there are no quick steps to a thriving Christian life, we have all we need in Jesus and the ordinary means of grace.

Matt Fuller (Senior Pastor of Christchurch Mayfair