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Chris Webb

Chris Webb

Chris Webb

Articles & Essays by Chris Webb

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Essay

To Bear the Character of God

Published November, 2016 • Featured September 15, 2023

We were created to love, but how do we reclaim that high calling? ​“The way is wide open for those willing to become the least and the last.”
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Essay

The Availability of the Spirit

Published March, 2017 • Featured October 21, 2022

“The Holy Spirit is already present to us, but often as a stranger, or at most a distant friend,” writes Chris Webb. But we are invited to know God at a deeper level. We simply need to ask.
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Article

A Blueprint for Christian Community

Published December, 2015 • Featured August 19, 2022

How can we ​“create a context for following Christ” in our churches? Chris Webb looks at the way communities can carefully construct rhythms, values, and commitments that support spiritual development.
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Essay

We Live by Rhythms

Published January, 2010 • Featured January 14, 2021

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.
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Article

Becoming Like Jesus: Virtuous Life

Published December, 2009 • Featured February 27, 2020

“Jesus shows us how to embrace a life that is abundant and full, a life of integrity and wholeness, a life surrendered to love,” writes Chris Webb. ​“This is the way of holiness; Christ invites you to walk in it.”
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Article

Becoming Like Jesus: Compassionate Life

Published December, 2010 • Featured October 15, 2019

Chris Webb examines what it means to live out the Compassionate Life ​“in the ever widening concentric circles of community in which we live.”
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Essay

Becoming Like Jesus: Spirit-Filled Life

Published December, 2010 • Featured September 5, 2019

“We must not let the Charismatic Stream be defined by the abuses committed in its name.” Author and Anglican priest Chris Webb shares an honest and balanced view of life empowered by the Holy Spirit.
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Essay

Becoming Like Jesus: Sacramental Life

Published December, 2009 • Featured June 9, 2019

Author and priest Chris Webb invites us to remember that nothing which happens after the creation of the cosmos once causes God to revoke his blessing on the material universe: it is ​“very good.”
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Article

Encountering Christ in All of Scripture

Published September, 2011 • Featured May 14, 2019

A Word-Centered Life, evangelical in the very best sense of that word, is one deeply grounded in Scripture. Chris Webb shares how we encounter Christ in the Bible.
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The Kingdom is Calling

Published September, 2017 • Featured October 11, 2017

Chris Webb helps us understand a concept at the heart of Jesus’ teaching, preaching, and mission —the Kingdom of God.
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Book Excerpt from God-Soaked Life

Imagine the Day after Your Death

Featured September 21, 2017

Registration for the 2017 – 18 Renovaré Book Club is open, and we are delighted to offer you a tantalizing taste of our first book this season: Chris Webb’s God-Soaked Life. Read along with us this fall, and discover how ​“God’s kingdom is not far away, a remote and future promise. It is here, now.”
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Article

How do Our Hearts Grow in Holiness?

Featured August 17, 2017

What are the hallmarks of holiness? Could they be radically different than the ideas of perfect piety and a conscience beyond reproach that immediately spring to mind? Might they rather be found in humility, service, and love? Chris Webb asks us to find our model for holiness in the life of Jesus.
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Article

Praying in Community

Featured May 18, 2017

In a piece excerpted from ​“Becoming Like Jesus: Prayer-Filled Life​,” Chris Webb reminds us of the blessing of corporate prayer. The very act of gathering together with the same community, week after week, year after year, brings unexpected strength and spiritual vitality.
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Article

Deep-Rooted in Christ: A Conversation Between Richard Foster and Chris Webb

Published January, 2008 • Featured February 12, 2017

Listen in on a conversation between Richard Foster and Chris Webb as they discuss Joshua Choonmin Kang’s book Deep-Rooted in Christ: The Way of Transformation.
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Article

We Are Created to Love

Featured November 9, 2016

How can we be made perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect? Only by learning the complete way to love that is the fulfillment of holiness.
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Essay

How to Create a Rule of Life Based on the Six Streams

Published January, 2010 • Featured February 23, 2016

Author and Benedictine Anglican priest Chris Webb walks us through a very practical way to create a rule of life — one that’s realistic, not just idealistic — based on the six streams found in Richard Foster’s Streams of Living Water.
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In Scripture We Find Christ

Published July, 2008 • Featured July 1, 2008