Rivers of Eden: Daily Walks in the Garden - Tapa blanda

Maintaining Christian faith is a daily exercise of spiritual discipline. In this first of four volumes, Reverend James Craig Noggle shares 100 easy-to-use entries to help devoted Christians develop their own daily discipline of fellowship with God through scripture, meditation, and prayer.

John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, developed a list of practices, widely known as Wesley’s Means of Grace, as a guide for an effective, growing, Christian life. The list includes the public worship of God, the ministry of the Word, and both family and private prayer, among other principles. Reverend Noggle combines these disciplines with heartfelt stories and illustrations collected over his twenty-five-year ministry to provide a daily, thirty-minutes-or-less, guided lesson in entering God’s presence and knowing him better.

Reverend Noggle’s prayer is that this devotional will provide encouragement and inspiration for readers to go deeper into scripture, deeper into the stories of their lives, and deeper into prayer for their friends, family, and themselves. This volume, and the three following, will assist you in moving closer to the arms of God and experiencing a more intimate relationship with him.

James Craig Noggle is an ordained United Methodist pastor. He holds two graduate certificates in ordained ministry and completed his undergraduate work in education and social work. He and his wife of thirty-five years live in a quiet, log home on Tranquility Ranch in the northern Michigan wilderness. Together, they have three sons and daughters along with four grandchildren.

Reverend Noggle’s prayer is for his four-volume devotional, Rivers of Eden, to help readers enjoy daily walks with God in the garden, alongside the rivers of living water in Eden.