Seeking God: Finding Another Kind of Life with St. Ignatius and Dallas Willard

Much spiritual direction for individuals and groups. Not light reading. Coordinates with all religious groups.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to build a closer relationship with God.

I can't say I've ever read a book like this one - merging the thoughts of two saints into one coherent message. The content is phenomenal, but the invitation into the disciplines and practices was what took this book up a knotch for me.This being my first Trevor Hudson book, I was quick to order more! Great stuff.

This book bright me so much peace that I’m reading it for the third time.

Trevor describes so well the seeking journey of every Christian. Through the lens of his own experience and the wisdom of his key mentors, a pathway of discipleship seeking is presented in a way that invites participation on the journey.

Trevor connects many dots.If you’ve been seeking a deeper relationship with God, you’ll likely find at least some of what you’re seeking. If you’ve been missing something, this read might be part of your journey.

This book will take you on a journey that will change your life in so many ways, including the way you do your walk with Jesus. In an incredibly compassionate way you will get to understand how much Jesus loves you, and cares for you, and how much deeper your walk with Him can be.

I've been very fortunate to have sat under Trevor Hudson's teaching a few years ago. Trevor's style of 'inviting' his listeners and readers to reflect on Jesus's teachings and his interpretation thereon was quite significant for me. As was his teaching on the Prodigal Son.This book is simply excellent and every believer should take some time to invest in it. It's not just a book to read but one to immerse oneself in certain practices, contemplations and reflections as you walk through each chapter. Hudson is an old friend of Dallas Willard's and a keen advocate of Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises and he engages with content from both in each chapter.I love how Carolyn Arend's in her Afterword makes this statement:"In the wondrous book we have just read, Trevor has given us the gift of time with three such loving hearts - three 'God-soaked' lives crackling with the radiant fire of Jesus' presence. Two of these loving hearts are Trevor's good friends, Ignatius of Loyola and Dallas Willard. And the third, of course, is Trevor himself."Hudson opens by inviting the reader to consider the Christian faith being a seeking one. We are always seeking more of God and after introducing his two friends: Ignatius and Willard, Hudson goes on to outline what a seeking life looks like and how we can join in the adventure. Each of the eight chapters contains 'pause' moments, dubbed 'Seeking Exercises' that enable us to reflect on the content being shared by all three gentlemen. I found this exercises to be tremendously useful in engaging with Jesus. In addition, each chapter concludes with a wonderful prayer that can be used throughout the day.The seeking life includes such well known principles of repentance (ie, changing direction), discerning our deepest desires, dying to self and finding God in all things but it's the manner in which Hudson presents them that is so powerful.One measures the quality of such books by how it stirs one's heart for more of Jesus. To use Arends' words, my heart was 'crackling with radiant fire' for the 'Zoe life' (the divine life that God can impart to us) as I made my way slowly through each chapter. I'm left with so much but this prayer lingers on my lips: "Please give me a heartfelt and intimate knowledge of who you are, that I may come to love you more intensely and follow you more closely."I feel very blessed to have received an early ebook version from NavPress via NetGalley with no expectation of a favourable review. I will be purchasing many copies to share with friends when it releases and I expect I will be reading it again very soon.

Very humble and straightforward no big words or tough to figure out exercises, simply relatable to everyone’s context, please read this over and over and do what it says to the glory of God