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

Featured June 16, 2023 (Original Dec 1992 )

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

Featured June 16, 2023 (Original Dec 2024 )

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.

Augustine & Julian of Norwich & Blaise Pascal

Featured June 16, 2023 (Original Dec 2024 )

The Invisible Nature of the Spiritual

Richard Foster explains that spiritual reality is hidden from us “until we want to see it . . . want to see it with all our hearts . . . long for it like the deer longing for flowing streams (Ps. 42:1).”

Richard J. Foster

Featured June 2, 2023 (Original Jul 1993 )

The Role of Temptations

Classics of Christian devotional literature are marked by clarity and profound simplicity. This excerpt from The Imitation of Christ is no exception. It offers practical and timeless advice for dealing with harmful desires.

Thomas à Kempis

Featured June 2, 2023 (Original Dec 1988 )

Disturb Us, Lord

They say scripture “disturbs the comfortable and comforts the disturbed”—a dynamic evident in the with-God life. James Catford introduces a poem on that topic by the great explorer Sir Francis Drake.

Sir Francis Drake

Featured June 2, 2023 (Original Dec 2024 )

Practice Staying in God’s Presence

François Fénelon reminds us that most of the struggles we face in the with-God life are not giant sins, but rather the seemingly inconsequential offenses that gradually drive a wedge between the life we want and the life we lead.

François Fénelon

Featured June 1, 2023 (Original Dec 2024 )

How to Cultivate a Listening Life

Renovaré Board Member and Co-founder of the Bible listening app Dwell, Jon Bailey, invites us to experience “fresh growth and grace as we keep God’s Word in our ears.”

Jonathan Bailey

Featured May 26, 2023 (Original May 2019 )

Understanding Prayer

“Just like a little child can never draw a bad picture, so a child of God can never utter a bad prayer.” Richard Foster explores the discipline through which God welcomes, embraces, and changes us.

Richard J. Foster

Featured May 25, 2023 (Original Sep 2014 )

The Feast that Satisfies and Never Satiates

God sets a meal before us—the never ending feast of deepening intimacy with the Trinity through Jesus Christ. Chris Hall describes this extraordinary invitation to know God in both the now and the not yet.

Christopher A. Hall

Featured May 24, 2023 (Original Jan 2017 )

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