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The Danger of Spiritual Disciplines

Disciplines of the spiritual life put us in a place where we can experience inner transformation as a gift. Richard Foster warns of pitfalls that can hinder our way.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured December 13, 2024 (Original Feb 1983 )
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Pray and Work and Read

Explore the rhythm of life under the Rule of St. Benedict. The simple beauty of the Rule’s balance of work, prayer, and reading appeals to us as a balm in the midst of a sin-sick, busy world.
Saint Benedict
Saint Benedict
Featured December 13, 2024 (Original Dec 2024 )
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Scrooge Visits His Past

“Good Heaven!” said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. “I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!” In this interchange between Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past we see the softening influence of looking back on one’s life.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Featured December 6, 2024 (Original Dec 1843 )
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In Christ

Sri Lankan pastor Daniel Thrambajaya Niles reminds us that with-God life is not solitary. We enter a family of fellow believers. And in Christ, we are to embrace all the world as brothers.
D. T. Niles
D. T. Niles
Featured November 15, 2024 (Original Jan 1962 )
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Jesus: the Truth and the Way

“Jesus as the truth gets far more attention than Jesus as the way.” Eugene Peterson encourages us to pattern ourselves after the way of Jesus rather than the ways of the world.
Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Peterson
Featured November 14, 2024 (Original Feb 2007 )
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Vision, Idea, and Message

What is Renovaré, exactly? And what does it mean to “train in righteousness?” In this vintage piece, Richard Foster offers some sturdy—and inspiring—definitions.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured November 13, 2024 (Original Apr 1999 )
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Acknowledging God in All We Do

Dallas Willard helps unpack Jesus’ invitation to “take our whole life into the kingdom of God and learn how to live the life God has given us in the power of God.”
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
Featured November 8, 2024 (Original Jul 1998 )
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A Life of Prayer and Holy Obedience in a War-Wracked World

A substantial piece by Richard Foster on the relationship between spiritual warfare, prayer, and holy obedience.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured November 8, 2024 (Original Feb 1983 )
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How to “Keep Watch”

Jan Johnson invites us to reflect on what it means to “keep watch” for Christ, like the wise ones in Jesus’ Parable of the Ten Women.
Jan Johnson
Jan Johnson
November 1, 2024
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Off to Work We Go

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard...” From The Scandal of the Kingdom, read Dallas Willard’s teaching on the Vineyard Workers.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
Featured November 1, 2024 (Original Dec 2024 )