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Living Each Moment with a Sense of God’s Presence: Frank Laubach
An excerpt from the collection of letters Laubach wrote while living on the Philippine island of Mindanao. It reveals a man utterly dedicated to an “experiment of filling every minute full of the thought of God.”
Frank Laubach
Featured August 16, 2024
(Original Dec 1936 )
Christ Beside Me
St. Patrick’s Lorica (Latin for “breastplate”) is a prayer of consciously choosing to abide in the protective and empowering presence of the Trinity.
St. Patrick
Featured August 16, 2024
(Original Nov 2024 )
Rescuing Our Focus
Carolyn Arends writes that the Renovaré is “part adventure, part intervention” — helping participants strengthen their ability to read deeply and to meet God in “good, nourishing, challenging books.”
Carolyn Arends
August 9, 2024
Do Not Be Anxious about Your Life
The birds are our schoolmasters and the lilies our theologians, says Martin Luther. What would it be like to put away our anxieties and live in simple trust of the Lord’s provision as they do?
Martin Luther
Featured August 2, 2024
(Original Nov 2024 )
Helping Children Sleep
Every bedtime is an opportunity to support a child’s maturing faith in the Lord’s goodness and care. Grace Pouch shares tips for helping kids go to sleep with a sense of safety and an awareness of God’s constant loving gaze.
Grace Pouch
Featured August 2, 2024
(Original Nov 2024 )
Avoiding the Present
“But we want a man hag-ridden by the Future ... We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy
now
.” In this piece, we walk the path of the time-full life and consider, with help from C.S. Lewis, how gratitude and love can ground us in eternity.
C.S. Lewis
Featured August 1, 2024
(Original Nov 2024 )
Encountering Christ in All of Scripture
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.
Chris Webb
Featured July 26, 2024
(Original Sep 2011 )
Reading the Bible with the Mind and the Heart
“God not only originated the Bible through human authorship; he remains with it always. It is God’s book. No one owns it but God himself. It is the loving heart of God made visible and plain. And receiving this message of exquisite love is the great privilege of all who long for life with God.”
Renovaré Team
Featured July 26, 2024
(Original Mar 2005 )
The Jogging Monk and the Exegesis of the Heart
James Bryan Smith tells the story of how he came to read Scripture by “listening to the text, reflecting on it, asking not merely what it means, but what it is asking of me, what it is asking me to hear.”
James Bryan Smith
Featured July 26, 2024
(Original Jul 1991 )
Modern Media and Tech—Blessing or Curse?
“What we as a species now face in terms of access to entertainment, communication, and information is completely unprecedented in the whole of human existence.” In this foreword to
Everyday Sabbath
, Nathan Foster ponders the role of technology and media in our lives.
Nathan Foster
Featured July 18, 2024
(Original Aug 2021 )
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