Understanding the Means

This excerpt from the Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible unpacks how Spiritual Disciplines are the practical ways, the means, by which we grow in grace.

Renovaré Team

Featured May 2, 2025 (Original Jan 2005 )

The Way of the Beatitudes

Selected excerpts from Pope Francis’s final Good Friday meditation articulate the “way of the Beatitudes.”

Pope Francis

Featured April 25, 2025 (Original May 2025 )

Fast and Slow

“Our sympathetic nervous systems have raced for twenty-five years now,” write Mark and Lisa McMinn. Slowing down is essential for living well.

Mark McMinn & Lisa Graham McMinn

Featured April 25, 2025 (Original May 2025 )

Free from the Darkness

Nathan Foster shares how he came to know the power of forgiveness through the discipline of confession.

Nathan Foster

Featured April 4, 2025 (Original Sep 2014 )

The Creative Power of Reconciliation

Christ-followers must learn to trade revenge for forgiveness, hate for love, and destructive power for creative power.

Richard J. Foster

Featured April 4, 2025 (Original May 2025 )

Empty That We May Be Full

“When we are full of ourselves or other things, we obstruct God’s grace.” Marlena Graves explores the way of self-emptying in imitation of our Lord Jesus and his mother—models of the humility that makes room for fullness.

Marlena Graves

Featured March 27, 2025 (Original Jul 2020 )

The Significance of the Hour

“For centuries, the church has been judged by its creeds and confessions, but today it is being judged by its deeds.” This sermon by Reverend Adam Clayton Powell is featured in the anthology of African American Christian voices Swing Low: Volume 2, edited by Walter R. Strickland II.

Adam Clayton Powell SR.

Featured March 27, 2025 (Original Jan 1939 )

Drawing a Picture of God

“The way we live is profoundly shaped by our picture of God,” writes Trevor Hudson, and so it’s of the utmost importance that we reflect carefully on the ideas we hold about God and bring them into alignment with the truth.

Trevor Hudson

Featured March 21, 2025 (Original Nov 2010 )

The Marvel of the Incarnation

Gregory the Theologian was a 4th century defender of the doctrine of the Trinity. His theology is a timeless resource, helping clarify our image of God and calling us to marvel at the one who “takes our nature for the good of our nature.”

Gregory of Nazianzus

Featured March 21, 2025 (Original May 2025 )

Hope: The Christian Way

A classic reading from C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity on the “theological virtue” of hope.

C.S. Lewis

Featured March 13, 2025 (Original Jan 1952 )

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