Is your daily devotion stale? Do you feel like your mind is constantly distracted? These spiritual exercises are for you.
Hymn Workouts:
100 Spiritual Exercises to Set Your Heart Ablaze
It’s not hard to fall into a cycle in which a ‘quiet time’ is nothing more than a moment to snuggle up with God under a blanket with a mug of coffee in hand. While there is nothing wrong with savoring the presence of God in a relaxed position, it should be pointed out that spiritual disciplines share a lot in common with physical exercise. In most cases, little effort results in little change.
Hymns are a perfect solution for people who struggle either to find time to read big books or who get little pleasure from the act of reading.
Meditating on a hymn is a HIIT workout for the soul.
The Workouts Are Simple
5 Minutes of Active Reading
5 Minutes of Focused Reflection
5 Minutes of Honest Prayer
Benefits of the Workouts
Experience the power of meditating on gospel truths
Get an education in systematic and practical theology
Watch the Scriptures come to life with startling beauty
Find words to express the hidden depths of your heart
For a generation that is allergic to sustained thought, no exercise is more potent than taking the time to reflect on something like a hymn. This activity isolates atrophied muscles of the mind that are in desperate need of a strenuous work out.
A great hymn does something even more important than expanding the horizons of devotion. The most potent of hymns has a unique ability to put into words what, for most of us, would otherwise be inexpressible. We find language that is suitable for the deepest groaning of the heart. And in this way, hymns become a script for personal devotion. They channel spiritual passions so that the heart can flow freely in praise and adoration.
THREE WAYS TO GET STARTED
Hymn Workouts gives you 100 exercises that will train you to steward your attention and stir your affections for Christ.
Sign up for our free 40 Day devotional plan. Everyday we will email you scripture to read, a hymn to study, and a short video to watch.
Subscribe to the Cross Training Ministries YouTube channel and browse our collection of videos that guide you through a Hymn Workout.
