Transforming Resources® provide guidance and direction for your spiritual journey and they equip and empower you to lead others in their journey as God leads. Beyond mere information, each book, is designed to provide step-by-step guidance for engaging the practices, experiences, and relationships that foster greater intimacy with God and deeper levels of spiritual transformation.
Whether you are a pastor, a business leader, an elder or deacon, a Sunday School teacher, a board member or a leader in your home, the best thing you bring to leadership is your own transforming self!
Transforming Resources published by InterVarsity Press
Ruth Haley Barton
NEW Leading a Transforming Community
Foundations, Practices, and Strategies for Opening to God Together
Forthcoming October 2026
Why do so many Christian communities long for transformation yet remain unsure how to pursue it together? Drawing on more than twenty-five years of guiding leaders, Ruth Haley Barton provides biblical and theological foundations, shared practices, and intentional strategies that help leaders cultivate communities where people open to God, experience transformation, and discern and do God's will together.
Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest
From Sabbath to Sabbatical and Back Again
In a culture of nonstop responsibility, how can pastors and leaders live within life-giving rhythms of work and rest? Drawing on two decades of Sabbath practice, Ruth Haley Barton explores both weekly Sabbath and extended sabbatical time. She grounds these rhythms in God's intentions and offers practical help for establishing them in churches, organizations, and the demanding realities of leadership.
Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
What happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their own souls? Through the life of Moses, contemporary stories, and a spiritual practice in every chapter, Ruth Haley Barton helps leaders attend to their life with God. The expanded edition includes the How Is It with Your Soul? assessment and a flexible discussion guide for leadership teams and groups.
Invitation to Retreat
The Gift and Necessity of Time Away with God
What if time away with God is not a luxury but a necessary part of the spiritual life? Ruth Haley Barton leads readers through seven invitations to retreat, helping them give God their full attention. Along the way, she explores rest, relinquishment, discernment, and the deeper freedom that grows as we invest generously in friendship with God.
Life Together in Christ
Experiencing Transformation in Community
Why do so many churches and small groups promise community without experiencing real change? Reflecting on the Emmaus Road, Ruth Haley Barton offers an interactive guide for spiritual companions who want to encounter Christ together. She shows how shared attitudes, practices, and ways of being can create space for authentic transformation in the midst of real life.
Pursuing God's Will Together
A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups
What if leadership meetings became places where groups truly listened for and responded to God? Ruth Haley Barton helps Christian teams move beyond decision-making models borrowed from the business world toward becoming spiritual communities that practice discernment together. Personal and group practices offer a concrete path for seeking and doing God's will together.
Sacred Rhythms
Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
Do you long for deeper change and greater intimacy with God but struggle to make room for it? Ruth Haley Barton introduces seven spiritual disciplines and the ancient practice of a rule of life. With practical exercises for individuals and groups, Sacred Rhythms helps readers arrange everyday life around practices that open us to God's transforming love.
Invitation to Solitude and Silence
Experiencing God's Transforming Presence
What lies beyond the constant stream of words that shapes so much of Christian life? Ruth Haley Barton invites readers into solitude and silence as practices for meeting God beyond what we can say or do. This expanded edition helps individuals and groups experience quiet, rest, mystery, and intimacy in God's transforming presence.
Longing for More
A Woman's Path to Transformation in Christ
What lies beneath the dissatisfaction many Christian women experience in their lives, relationships, and roles? Ruth Haley Barton names a deeper longing for freedom: the freedom to discover our full identity in Christ and offer our gifts in service to God. With honesty about the complexity of women's lives, she offers a path toward transformation and wholeness.
M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
Invitation to a Journey
A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
What does it mean to be formed into the image of Christ? M. Robert Mulholland Jr. offers a clear and practical understanding of spiritual formation and the practices that open us to God's transforming work. This expanded edition includes a new introduction, spiritual practices, and study guide by Ruth Haley Barton.
The Deeper Journey
The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self
Who are we beneath the identities and patterns we use to protect ourselves? M. Robert Mulholland Jr. helps us recognize the false self and discover the true self that comes from being hidden with Christ in God. This expanded edition includes a foreword by Ruth Haley Barton and a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook
Practices That Transform Us | Revised edition 2015
What practices can help us become more attentive to God and open to Christ's transforming work? Adele Ahlberg Calhoun offers practical guidance for seventy-five spiritual disciplines, from silence and solitude to hospitality and mentoring. This revised edition also introduces thirteen new disciplines, helping readers connect their deepest desires with practices that cultivate greater intimacy with Christ.
Invitations from God
Accepting God's Offer to Rest, Weep, Forgive, Wait, Remember and More
What might happen if we paid attention to the invitations from God that are easy to miss? Adele Ahlberg Calhoun explores invitations to rest, weep, forgive, wait, remember, and more. Reflection questions, exercises, and recommended disciplines help readers notice the quiet voice of the Great Inviter and respond in ways that bring healing, freedom, and transformation.
Rory Noland
Transforming Worship
Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered
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