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Boat

In an essay from Renovaré’s new booklet Body, Bride, Boat, Grace Pouch explores a metaphor for the Church that helps us understand how to be the community of faith in turbulent times.

Grace Pouch

Featured June 20, 2025 (Original May 2025 )

On the Move

“The Church is the pilgrim people of God. It is on the move,” writes Lesslie Newbigin in this excerpt exploring the significance of being the visible community of faith.

Lesslie Newbigin

Featured June 20, 2025 (Original Jun 2025 )

Bride

In an essay from Renovaré’s new booklet Body, Bride, Boat, Julia Roller explores some of the historical, modern, and biblical characteristics of the Bride metaphor.

Julia L. Roller

Featured June 13, 2025 (Original May 2025 )

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Good Things Run Wild

In the short devotion “Good Things Run Wild” from The Eternal Journey, Jonathan Bailey explores what union with God really looks like: freedom.

Jonathan R. Bailey

Featured June 13, 2025 (Original May 2020 )

Body

In an essay from Renovaré’s new booklet Body, Bride, Boat, Drew Dixon introduces the Body metaphor for the Church and offers questions to help us reflect on the importance of diversity and unity among the members of the Body.

Drew L. Dixon

Featured June 6, 2025 (Original May 2025 )

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One Body in Christ

We must “fearlessly practice” unity in the Body, writes Kokichi Kurosaki in this excerpt warning against divisions in the Church.

Kokichi Kurosaki

Featured June 6, 2025 (Original Jun 2025 )

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Living, Teaching, Practicing

From the newsletter archives… Richard Foster writes, “Like the recurring stitch pattern in a quilt, so prayer threads its way throughout Jesus’ life.”

Richard J. Foster

Featured May 30, 2025 (Original Apr 1996 )

Why Bother With Discipleship?

In this excerpt from The Great Omission, Dallas Willard explains that salvation is more than forgiveness. It involves drawing near to Jesus as his student and friend (discipleship) so that our inward thoughts and motivations can be shaped in his likeness (spiritual formation).

Dallas Willard

Featured May 30, 2025 (Original Sep 1995 )

The Miracle of Christian Morality

C. Harold Dodd explains that if “the Spirit is within, the mind of the Spirit is the mind of the man himself, and from within works out a growing perfection of life.”

C. Harold Dodd

Featured May 30, 2025 (Original Jun 2025 )

Yielding My Control to God

“God has been undoing the illusion of control in my life and career,” writes Bill Simmons, CEO and president of Hope Rises (American Leprosy Missions).

Bill Simmons

Featured May 23, 2025 (Original Mar 2025 )