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God’s Love Is High­er Even Than My Sins

John Wes­ley takes sin seri­ous­ly and here dis­tin­guish­es between dif­fer­ent kinds. The goal is not shame or per­fec­tion­ism, but to point us toward free­dom in Christ and to help us rec­og­nize that the choic­es we make matter.
John Wesley Richard J. Foster
John Wesley & Richard J. Foster
February 19, 2021
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Songs In The Key of Life

In this let­ter to his con­gre­ga­tion, Pas­tor Eric Peter­son reflects, ​“Jesus didn’t come to deliv­er us from our human­i­ty and its accom­pa­ny­ing heartaches, but to join us in it all (the good, the bad, the beau­ti­ful and the ugly).”
Eric E. Peterson
Eric E. Peterson
February 10, 2021
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Let­ter to a Young Pastor

“I won­der if one of the great­est things that a pas­tor can do,” writes Eugene Peter­son to his son Eric, ​“is to treat men and women with sim­ple dig­ni­ty.” This let­ter is one of many exchanged between father and son, two pas­tors work­ing out how to best care for the peo­ple of God.
Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Peterson
February 10, 2021
Crafting

Cre­ativ­i­ty in the Chaos

When COVID-19 began, Car­olyn Arends noticed some­thing weird: peo­ple were craft­ing. They respond­ed to chaos with cos­mos. And regard­less of our artis­tic abil­i­ty, all of us are made in the image of the Cre­ator and instilled with a desire to cre­ate order and beauty.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
February 5, 2021
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Bear­ing the Image of God

We learn in Gen­e­sis 1:26 that we are made in the image of God. But, what does that mean? And how can div­ing into this idea of ima­go Dei help us go deep­er into this unfold­ing Mys­tery of God? Chris Hall explores the var­i­ous under­stand­ings of what it means to bear the image of the Trini­tar­i­an God.
Chris Hall
Chris Hall
February 4, 2021
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How to Pray While Drown­ing In Doubt

With­out pre­tense or plat­i­tudes, Tish Har­ri­son War­ren lights the can­dle of night­time prayer to help us find a path for­ward in the dark­ness of doubt and grief.
Tish Harrison Warren
Tish Harrison Warren
January 29, 2021
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Monk, Samu­rai, and the Chris­t­ian Life

Ken Shige­mat­su’s dis­cov­ered his ances­tors were Japan­ese samu­rai who lived by bushi­do, a code of hon­or with sur­pris­ing par­al­lels to St. Bene­dic­t’s Rule. Mod­ern Chris­tians can learn much from both samu­rai and monk.
Ken Shigematsu
Ken Shigematsu
January 15, 2021
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We Live by Rhythms

Pat­terns, struc­tures, tra­di­tions, and rit­u­als make up our dai­ly rhythms. What if we could learn to shape these rhythms to make us more aware of the Holy Spir­it, more inten­tion­al in our appren­tice­ship to Christ? Chris Webb gives the whys for craft­ing a Rule of Life in this help­ful introduction.
Chris Webb
Chris Webb
January 14, 2021
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On the Imi­ta­tion of Christ

De imi­ta­tione Christi is our high­est aspi­ra­tion as believ­ers. Richard Fos­ter offers per­son­al anec­dote, scrip­tur­al insight, and prax­is in this reflec­tion on imi­tat­ing Christ.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 8, 2021
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Imprint­ing with God

“The life­long dynam­ic of bap­tism as a lifestyle is what makes it end­less­ly mean­ing­ful,” writes pas­tor and author Eric Peter­son. He expands our think­ing of this sacra­ment from a one-time event to a way of liv­ing in Jesus.
Eric E. Peterson
Eric E. Peterson
December 28, 2020