Posts by Kyle Strobel

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Fueling Failure and Ministry
Kyle Strobel — May 22, 2026
There is an odd legacy in the Christian tradition. The legacy is the way guilt, shame, fear and anxiety end up fueling life and ministry. The...
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Spiritual Formation and the Church
Kyle Strobel — May 15, 2026
The primary question I hear when I go to conferences, or when people in full-time ministry reach out to me, is “What does spiritual formation look...
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Love from a Full-Self
Kyle Strobel — May 01, 2026
There are many things that sound right that are not. I find that for many, there is a kind of feeling that is used when reading Scripture or...
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The Heart of Reformed Spirituality
Kyle Strobel — April 15, 2026
When I first came to seminary, I called myself an Arminian. That wasn’t true, really. The reality was that I just didn’t like people I knew who...
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Dallas Willard and Spiritual Formation for the Church
Kyle Strobel — April 08, 2026
In a wonderful recent episode of the Dallas Willard Podcast, we get to listen to Dallas teach about what it looks like to bring spiritual formation...
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The Lies of Expectation and Intention
Kyle Strobel — March 25, 2026
For the first eight years of my time as a professor at Talbot, I had a weekly meeting with my friend and mentor John Coe. John was my immediate...
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The Growing Pains of Faith
Kyle Strobel — March 16, 2026
I always felt so bad for my kids when they would wander into our room, complaining about how much their legs hurt while they tried to sleep....
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The Importance of a Developmental Spirituality
Kyle Strobel — February 20, 2026
If you have read my blog for any recent length of time, you have probably heard me talking about the importance of a developmental spirituality....
Talbot Magazine
Best of the Blog: Winter 2026
Paradigms of Spiritual Formation
Kyle Strobel — January 22, 2026
When we talk about spiritual formation, the Christian life, or maybe even just growth, we all presuppose a paradigm for what we are talking about....
Talbot Magazine
Knowledge and Skill Are Not Enough
Why spiritual theology is an essential part of Talbot’s pastoral training
Kyle Strobel — January 22, 2026
When I came to Talbot as a student I was at a crossroads. I knew that I wanted to be in ministry, but I wasn’t sure whether I should pursue a...
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How Evangelicalism is Digging Its Own Grave
Kyle Strobel — January 14, 2026
One of the more prophetic and penetrating books I remember reading in the early years of my biblical and theological education is an often-ignored...
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What is God Doing in My Life?
Kyle Strobel — December 29, 2025
Perhaps the most confused notion in spiritual formation today is the idea that you can just give people things to do to grow, as if spiritual...
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Shame, The Great Teacher
Kyle Strobel — December 15, 2025
For various reasons, I’ve been thinking about shame recently, and I was taken aback by this quote from John Chysostom, on Romans 1:17: But he who...
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Your True Self Is Not Your Authentic Self
Kyle Strobel — October 29, 2025
I will often use the language of “true self” and “false self,” because I think it gets at something important. The problem is that others use this...
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The Future of Soul Care
Kyle Strobel — September 24, 2025
For those of you who don’t know, I have entered a new season in my academic life. When I posted the update about my new role as the Director of the...
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Discernment and Spiritual Practices: Wisdom from the Desert
Kyle Strobel — September 17, 2025
When talking about desert spirituality, John Cassian’s Conferences must be a key resource. In Cassian’s work, we find him and his friend Germanus...
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Paradigms of Spiritual Formation
Kyle Strobel — August 22, 2025
When we talk about spiritual formation, the Christian life, or maybe even just growth, we all presuppose a paradigm for what we are talking about....
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Following the Signs
Kyle Strobel — February 26, 2025
“All teaching is either about things or signs; but things are learned about through signs.” Augustine In The Silver Chair, Jill Pole is with Aslan...
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On Having Your Beliefs Transformed
By embracing the simple joys hidden in plain sight
Kyle Strobel — February 19, 2025
I went to seminary to be great. I’m sure there was something well-meaning in it, and I’m sure that there was a genuine call on my life to take that...
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Spiritual Formation Beyond Life Hacks
Kyle Strobel — January 20, 2025
The beginning of the contemporary discussion of spiritual formation began with a simple realization: At some point we stopped talking about...
Talbot Magazine
Best of the Blog: Winter 2024
The Problem with Imitating Jesus
Kyle Strobel — January 08, 2025
There are tension points all along the path of Christian spiritual formation, where Scripture seems to present opposing ideas to us. If I can...
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The Problem with Imitating Jesus
Kyle Strobel — September 20, 2024
There are tension points all along the path of Christian spiritual formation, where Scripture seems to present opposing ideas to us. We don’t get...
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The New (But Old) Wave in Evangelicalism
Kyle Strobel — June 06, 2024
In a recent article on The Gospel Coalition website, Trevin Wax narrates three “waves” that have occurred in evangelicalism over the past 50 years:...
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The Spiritual Calling of the Seminary
Kyle Strobel — December 06, 2023
When I first began wrestling with a call to ministry, I was immediately warned by some well-meaning Christians, “whatever you do, don’t go to...
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When Prayer is Shaped by the Gospel
Kyle Strobel — December 06, 2021
Even though I was a Bible major in college, it became clear that I did not have the slightest clue how to pray. But that wasn’t the main problem....