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Richard J. Foster
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From 1993-2006, Richard Foster wrote letters to encourage the Renovaré community. Years later, Nathan Foster followed in the tradition with a few of his own.
The Six Streams and Hope for a New Reformation
Nathan Foster imagines a new reformation within the Body of Christ, one grounded in the ecumenical embrace of the six historical movements, or streams, in church history.
Nathan Foster
Featured June 18, 2021
(Original May 2016 )
Lessons From the Trees
Nathan Foster explores how trees teach us how to grow slow, root deep, and wait with patience for the resurrection of spring.
Nathan Foster
Featured March 15, 2019
(Original Mar 2016 )
Selfish Care, Self-Care, and Soul Care—What’s the Difference?
Part of the discipline of submission is recognizing our limitations and caring for our souls. Nathan Foster says soul care is when “we simply place ourselves in a position for God to care for us, attend to our souls, and let his agenda supersede ours.”
Nathan Foster
Featured April 16, 2021
(Original Jan 2016 )
Practicing Availability and Vulnerability, Part 2
This month I want to continue working with those two beautifully challenging words: availability and vulnerability. I’d like to explore how we can practice these as a spiritual discipline, some potential challenges, and what these practices might look like in a ministry context.
Nathan Foster
December 3, 2024
Practicing Availability and Vulnerability
Nathan Foster explores how availability and vulnerability are modeled in the life of Jesus and how we can incorporate them into our lives.
Nathan Foster
December 3, 2024
The Rise of Educational Spiritual Formation Communities
Educational spiritual formation communities have sprouted up around the world. Nathan Foster unpacks their gifts and challenges.
Nathan Foster
December 3, 2024
Why Renovaré Will Live On
Many good things are happening within the organization, but my statement of confidence comes from something entirely different. Renovaré is not about an organization; it has never been. Renovaré is about equipping a movement.
Nathan Foster
Featured January 10, 2022
(Original Mar 2015 )
What to Pray When Pain Takes Your Words
When we’re unable to find our own words to pray, when all we have is worn and exhausted groans, Nathan Foster shows there is still a way to pray.
Nathan Foster
December 3, 2024
How to Release Resentment: Steps for Forgiving Others
Nathan shares a personal reflection on the hold of resentment upon our hearts and minds and how “it is possible to release the person, the burden, and the toxicity it places on us into the capable hands of God.”
Nathan Foster
December 3, 2024
Are Christians Called to be Irrelevant?
First published in 2014, Nathan Foster’s letter to the Renovaré community explores this Henri Nouwen quote: “I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her vulnerable self.”
Nathan Foster
Featured January 3, 2022
(Original Oct 2014 )
The Cure for Distraction
In 1978, Richard Foster wrote, “Superficiality is the curse of our age.” More than forty years later, it feels as relevant as ever. Yet, the reigning curse that threatens the growth of our souls has a new challenger—distraction.
Nathan Foster
Featured March 19, 2021
(Original Oct 2014 )
Spiritual Disciplines are an Invitation
“The disciplines are an invitation, not an obligation.” Nathan Foster reminds us that “joy, freedom, and laughter are where this journey is taking us.”
Nathan Foster
Featured September 17, 2021
(Original Aug 2014 )
Waiting, Stillness, and Abundant Life
“Waiting is right at the heart of Christian spirituality.” Richard Foster penned this essay on the confluence of waiting, stillness, and abundance in Christian life in a vintage
Heart to Heart
letter.
Richard J. Foster
Featured November 5, 2021
(Original Nov 2007 )
Heart to Heart May 2006
In this May 2006 pastoral letter to the Renovaré community, Richard Foster lays out the characteristics and principles of spiritual formation based congregations, and puts practical skin on them with personal stories.
Richard J. Foster
Featured October 30, 2020
(Original May 2006 )
Heart to Heart November 2005
A November 2005 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about the Vision and Mission of Renovaré, A Movement Afoot, and Our Geographic Strategy of Penetration (Renovaré USA, Britain and Ireland, Korea).
Richard J. Foster
December 3, 2024
Daring to Follow the Spirit’s Lead
Richard Foster looks backward as well as forward with prophetic attention to the Spirit’s movement in modern times—a vision that guides and undergirds Renovaré’s efforts to connect, deepen, and renew the people of God.
Richard J. Foster
Featured September 12, 2022
(Original May 2005 )
Heart to Heart November 2004
A November 2004 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about the development of The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible and what the editors learned in the process.
Richard J. Foster
December 3, 2024
Heart to Heart May 2004
A May 2004 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about the lessons learned over the past 15 years of Renovaré.
Richard J. Foster
December 3, 2024
Heart to Heart May 2003
A May 2003 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about Spiritual Formation today, Focusing on Jesus, Focusing on Scripture, Focusing on Spiritual Disciplines, and “Back to the Beginning” - start with Jesus and end with Jesus.
Richard J. Foster
December 3, 2024
An Introduction and Invitation to the Renovaré Covenant
A November 2002 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about the Renovaré Covenant and its importance to our ongoing life of discipleship.
Richard J. Foster
Featured November 26, 2021
(Original Nov 2002 )
Heart to Heart May 2002
A May 2002 Heart to Heart newsletter where Roger Fredrikson talks about grace.
Roger Fredrikson
December 3, 2024
Post 9/11, How Should We Then Live?
In this January 2002 Heart to Heart newsletter, Richard Foster talks about The Utter Reality of Evil (September 11), The Utter Vulnerability of Human Life, The Utter Security of a Life Hid in God.
Richard J. Foster
Featured September 10, 2021
(Original Jan 2002 )
Heart to Heart June 2001
A June 2001 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about the qera Yahweh, No Abiding City, The Centrality of the Sermon of the Mount, Profoundly Relational, Renovaré United Kingdom, and Financials.
Richard J. Foster
December 3, 2024
Heart to Heart November 2000
A November 2000 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about two structures where renewal is unlikely, and structures where he sees renewal emerging.
Richard J. Foster
December 3, 2024
Heart to Heart June 2000
A June 2000 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about the idols of our day: the Idol of Personal Autonomy, the Idol of Pleasure, and the Idol of Efficiency.
Richard J. Foster
December 3, 2024
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