Barriers to Hearing God
“Our failure to hear God has its deepest roots in a failure to understand, accept, and grow into a conversational relationship with God.” Dallas Willard helps us understand three common issues that prevent us from hearing God clearly.
Featured January 24, 2025 (Original Dec 1998 )
Universalism’s Fatal Flaw
Richard Foster writes, “if we are to take the biblical revelation seriously we must wrestle with the subject of hell. My discomfort (yours too, perhaps) is simply beside the point.” Foster clarifies the choice that lies before us: community or isolation, God’s kingdom or our own, “with-God” life or “away-from-God” life.
Featured January 3, 2025 (Original Jul 2003 )
In-Depth Answers to Ten Big Questions About Spiritual Formation
In the fall of 1999, a small group of Christian teachers—including Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Eugene Peterson, and Gayle Beebe—retreated in Colorado together to prayerfully reflect on the meaning and prospects of Christian spiritual formation today.
Featured January 3, 2025 (Original Oct 1999 )
Scrooge Visits His Past
“Good Heaven!” said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. “I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!” In this interchange between Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past we see the softening influence of looking back on one’s life.
Featured December 6, 2024 (Original Dec 1843 )
Vision, Idea, and Message
What is Renovaré, exactly? And what does it mean to “train in righteousness?” In this vintage piece, Richard Foster offers some sturdy—and inspiring—definitions.
Featured November 13, 2024 (Original Apr 1999 )