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Reaching Toward Light

What Do We Mean by Prayer?

Evelyn Underhill invites us into a realm of complete dedication to prayer through what she calls our three faculties—thinking, feeling, and willing to act—which join to lead us to the center and art of prayer.
Evelyn Underhill
July 19, 2019
Lilias Trotter Painting 1

Lilias Trotter: Contemplative, Artist, Missionary

She was one of the greatest artists the world has never known, one who had a new way of seeing the world. Lilias Trotter turned down an offer to become a legendary painter, choosing instead to follow God’s call to Africa.
Mimi Dixon
Mimi Dixon
July 17, 2019
Sunset Conversation

Why Pray If God Already Knows?

With help from the church fathers and mothers, Chris Hall considers what communication is like with the God whose knowledge is inseparable from his love.
Chris Hall
Chris Hall
July 15, 2019
African American Man Praying On Bench

Becoming Like Jesus: Prayer-Filled Life

Chris Webb helps us learn the rhythms of Jesus, whose life was shaped by prayer and steeped in prayer to an extraordinary degree.
Chris Webb
Chris Webb
July 12, 2019
Heart On Fire

Defining The Contemplative Tradition: The Prayer-Filled Life

“The two most common words used to describe the contemplative way of life are fire and love. Purging, purifying fire. Enveloping, comforting love.” In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster introduces us to the contemplative life.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
July 10, 2019
Laundry At Home

Practical Ways to Live All of Life With God

In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster provides very practical ways to live all of life—everyday home and family and work life—with God.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
June 27, 2019
Man In Office

Finding Christ in Our Work

How can our everyday work become divine work? Dallas Willard says, “It requires a life that is spiritual throughout, full of meaning, strength, and joy.”
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
June 26, 2019
Reflective Executive

The Reflective Executive

Former marketing consultant Emilie Griffin learned how to work alongside God in the midst of high-profile work. The reflective executive, she explains, is one “who operates within the realm of the practical knowing that with God, all things are possible.”
Emilie Griffin
Emilie Griffin
June 24, 2019
Posture

The Power of Posture

What does it mean to be “upright” in our ways, our hearts, our walk? Brian Morykon looks at what research on the posture of our body can teach us about the posture of our hearts.
Brian Morykon
Brian Morykon
June 21, 2019
Walking On Path

The Doctrines of Everyday Life

William Law tears down the classic delineation between the public shows of worship that we often give preeminence and the “doctrines that relate to everyday life” in which Jesus and his disciples engaged.
William Law
William Law
June 19, 2019