Dedication: To my faithful wife Helen who has spent more hours helping me improve this material than I can count. But especially to my Lord God for all His goodness and grace to me.  He is the One who has prompted me to write this paper and has given me the material to include.  Soli Deo gloria.

Preface: The spiritual lessons, insights, and principles God is teaching me in my older years that I wished I had known earlier in life.

Introduction: The Great Divide in Evangelical Christianity between being truly God-centered and merely self-centered.

A Word to the Readers: Currently available material is printed in blue.  Let me also say that this is not a speed-reading project.  Read each section slowly and meditatively.  Look for what is helpful to you in your walk with God.

1. The Gospel Is God’s Call to Know Him as the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe

1. What Is Life All About?
2. Knowing God Involves God’s Working—and Ours
3. How Does Knowing God Take Place?
4. Knowing God as Creator
5. Knowing God as Ruler and Judge
6. Knowing God as Redeemer
7. Knowing God as Restorer and Perfecter
8. Hearing God’s Call
9. Faith Is Both a Gift and a Requirement
10. How Everything in God’s Perfect Plan of Redemption Comes Together
11. Select Bibliography

2. Discipleship Is God’s Call to Follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior

3. Spiritual Disciplines Are God’s Call to Grow through His Means of Grace