Ruth Haley Barton speaks, teaches and provides guided experiences on spiritual formation themes and practices, spiritual leadership, community, and women and men in ministry.
Each of the teaching themes below can be presented in a variety of formats—stand-alone messages, one-day conferences, or weekend retreats that include time for guided experiences.
Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines
An Ordinary Day with Jesus
Based on the curriculum co-published by Willow Creek Resources and Zondervan, An Ordinary Day with Jesus introduces participants to a variety of spiritual formation themes and practices. You may choose to focus on a few or to offer the entire course in a weekend retreat format. Session titles:
Session 1: Living in Jesus’ Name
Session 2: Everyday Relationships
Session 3: Work
Session 4: Leadings
Session 5: Solitude
Session 6: Spiritual Pathways
Session 7: Pace of Life
Session 8: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
An Ordinary Day with Jesus is also available as a train-the-trainer event for leaders who would like to teach this course to others.
Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
This material may be taught as a one-day conference workshop or as a weekend retreat. Session titles:
Session 1: Opening to the Gift of Spiritual Transformation
Session 2: Encountering God in Solitude and Silence
Session 3: Engaging the Scriptures for Spiritual Transformation
Session 4: Experiencing Transformation through Self-Examination and Confession
Encountering God in Solitude and Silence
Engaging the Scriptures for Spiritual Transformation
Experiencing Transformation through Self-Examination and Confession
Prayer: Communing and Communicating with God
Encountering God Together in Community
Spiritual Friendship: Encountering God Together on the Road of Life
The Art and Practice of Personal Discernment
Flesh and Blood Spirituality: Honoring the Body as a Spiritual Practice
Meeting God in the Wilderness Experiences of Life
Evangelism: An Invitation to Spiritual Transformation
Establishing Rhythms of Work and Rest: Simplicity, Slowing, and Sabbath
Spiritual Leadership
Discerning and Doing God’s Will Together
Teaching and training in the practice of corporate discernment.
Giving You the Best I’ve Got
The best thing leaders bring to leadership is their own transforming selves.
Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
Understanding the Stages of the Spiritual Journey
—For Yourself and Others
Resting in God: Avoiding the Dangers of Depletion in Ministry
Cultivating a Culture of Spiritual Transformation
Beyond Teamwork: Cultivating Spiritual Community Among Your Leadership Team
Additional themes related to published works
Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God’s Transforming Presence, (InterVarsity Press, 2004)
The Truths That Free Us: A Woman’s Calling to Spiritual Transformation, (Shaw, 2003)
An Ordinary Day with Jesus: Experiencing the Reality of God in Your Everyday Life, John Ortberg and Ruth Haley Barton (Zondervan, 2001)
Equal to the Task: Men and Women in Partnership at Work, at Church, at Home, (InterVarsity Press, 1998)
Ruth: Relationships that Bring Life (Shaw, 2001)
Becoming Women of Purpose (Shaw, 1992)
Women Like Us: Wisdom for Today’s Issues (Shaw, 1990)
