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2018 04 20 Woman Ringing Doorbell

Turning Your Thoughts into Prayers

“When we run out of things to say to God, we can bring up whatever or whomever is in front of us.” Jan Johnson shows how praying without ceasing need not be complicated.
Jan Johnson
Jan Johnson
April 20, 2018
04 18 Calling A Friend

Like Calling a Friend and Never Hanging Up

What if praying without ceasing is less like an unending military drill and much more like “calling a friend and never hanging up”? Nate Foster joins us to consider this approach when we commit our ways to drawing deeper into prayer. Whether fun or mundane, the conversation is always worthwhile.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
April 18, 2018
04 12 Healing Prayer

Experiments in Prayer

Can we apply the scientific method to … prayer? Agnes Sanford says “Yes!” Giving us four simple steps to follow Agnes assures us that we can learn to adjust our prayer practices to better “plug into” God’s amazing power and presence to heal, protect, provide, and console.
Agnes Sanford
Agnes Sanford
April 13, 2018
04 05 Running To Father

Understanding Prayer

In April 2018, we’re looking together at the discipline of prayer. With whom better to start, then, than Richard Foster, whose book Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home has blessed so many over the years? Join us in exploring a discipline that God uses to welcome, embrace, and change us.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
April 11, 2018
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Forty Years of Celebration of Discipline: An Interview with Richard Foster

Richard Foster chats with Paul Anderson of George Fox University about the 40th anniversary of Celebration of Discipline, how that first book led to many others, why Renovaré came into being, the ways being a Quaker shaped his interdenominational outreach, and what the future holds.
Paul Anderson Richard J. Foster
Paul Anderson & Richard J. Foster
April 6, 2018
03 21 Overflow

Life without Lack

We are very glad to be able to share a short excerpt from the new collection of Dallas Willard’s thoughts on Psalm 23, Life without Lack. In this excerpt, he encourages us to get our thinking caps on when we begin to contemplate the nature of God and reveals the most important part of who we are.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
April 5, 2018
04 05 Prayer

The Lord's Prayer as a Transformative Pattern

Paul Anderson joins us to share some ideas for the importance of regular daily prayer for spiritual transformation and offers some practices for modeling a morning prayer after the Lord’s Prayer.
Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson
April 4, 2018
03 23 Meditation Application

Meditation is Different than Application

How does meditation differ from application when we are spending time in God’s Word? Jan Johnson joins us to share an excerpt from her book, Meeting God in Scripture, in which she helps us consider the differences and explore the connections between these two practices.
Jan Johnson
Jan Johnson
March 23, 2018
03 22 Supernova1

Model of a Life Well Lived

Join us as Richard Foster reflects on the “human supernova” who changed his life forever: Dallas Willard. In the foreword to Gary Moon’s new biography on Dallas, Becoming Dallas Willard, Richard shares memories of his friend and why he believes that Dallas’s life is a model for our time.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
March 22, 2018
03 09 Meditation

Why Meditate on Scripture?

There can be a lot of questions about the discipline of meditation on Scripture: What does it mean? How can I practice it? How is it different from prayer? Jan Johnson helps answer some of those in this short excerpt from her book, Meeting God in Scripture.
Jan Johnson
Jan Johnson
March 16, 2018