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Transformed through Writing

Luci Shaw offers some advice from her book Life Path. Writing as a spiritual discipline can open channels that transform us, heal us, and bring us a few steps closer to God.
Luci Shaw
Luci Shaw
Featured July 14, 2023 (Original Jan 1991 )
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Understanding Celebration

Richard Foster shares how celebration prevents the spiritual disciplines from deteriorating into soul-killing legalisms and saves us from taking ourselves too seriously.
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Richard J. Foster
Featured June 30, 2023 (Original Oct 2014 )
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Live Life to the Full

Dallas Willard helps us understand the synergy between God’s transforming grace and our active cooperation: “You have never seen people more active than those who have been set on fire by the grace of God.”
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
Featured June 29, 2023 (Original Apr 2001 )
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Helping Children Notice God

Lacy Finn Borgo offers practical steps adults can take to help children notice God’s presence and to draw them deeper into the goodness, beauty, and truth of the with-God life.
Lacy Finn Borgo
Lacy Finn Borgo
Featured June 28, 2023 (Original Jul 2017 )
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We Never Outgrow Asking

Adoration or contemplation may seem nobler than asking God for something. But Richard Foster kindly insists that petition isn’t a lower form of prayer—it’s our staple diet.
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Richard J. Foster
Featured June 23, 2023 (Original Jul 1992 )
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Turning Your Thoughts into Prayers

“What do we pray? Whatever piece of God’s will we understand.” Jan Johnson shows how praying without ceasing need not be complicated.
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Jan Johnson
Featured June 23, 2023 (Original Nov 2024 )
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Lean Toward Love

Françios Fénelon explains how staying engaged in the Divine conversation, even when we don’t feel like it, forms stability in our relationship with God.
François Fénelon
François Fénelon
Featured June 23, 2023 (Original Nov 2024 )
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Hints for How to Pray

Richard Foster comments: “When I read [Buttrick], I want to pray. Many authors help me understand prayer; few help me practice it.” These practical suggestions from the great preacher George Buttrick help us enter into prayer as friendship with God.
George Buttrick
George Buttrick
Featured June 16, 2023 (Original Dec 1992 )
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I Keep You Fully and Completely Safe

If we only knew how God feels toward us, we would run to him with complete trust even when we fall. Julian of Norwich shares the truth God showed her about his longing to enfold us and restore us in his love.
Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich
Featured June 16, 2023 (Original Nov 2024 )
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Prayer Journaling: Styles and Examples

When we consider prayer journaling, it helps to look for praiseworthy models to emulate. Examples from Augustine, Julian, and Pascal display a few different styles of engaging in the divine conversation.
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Augustine & Julian of Norwich & Blaise Pascal
Featured June 16, 2023 (Original Nov 2024 )