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Cross On Hill In Mountains

A Place to Stand

Learn the his­to­ry of the Ren­o­varé Covenant, espe­cial­ly the the­ol­o­gy and thought poured into every word, in this essay from Richard Foster.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
March 8, 2020
07 28 Cooperating Spirit

Coop­er­at­ing with the Move­ment of the Spir­it in the Life of a Child

Lacy Finn Bor­go explores the excit­ing realm of spir­i­tu­al for­ma­tion in chil­dren. Here she looks at how adults can coop­er­ate with the work the Holy Spir­it is already doing in chil­dren’s lives to draw them deep­er into the good­ness, beau­ty, and truth of the with-God life.
Lacy Finn Borgo
Lacy Finn Borgo
March 8, 2020
03 21 Holy Spirit Has History

The Holy Spir­it Has a History

Many have believed that God went silent for hun­dreds of years after the 1st cen­tu­ry. Not so. With the help of his men­tor, Tom Oden, Chris Hall learned to trace God’s hand through­out history.
Chris Hall
Chris Hall
March 4, 2020
Black Woman Looking Up

The Most Impor­tant Thing About You

From Life With­out Lack, Dal­las Willard invites us to think cor­rect­ly about two fun­da­men­tal things: minds and people.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
March 2, 2020
Jesus Washing Feet Etching

Becom­ing Like Jesus: Vir­tu­ous Life

“Jesus shows us how to embrace a life that is abun­dant and full, a life of integri­ty and whole­ness, a life sur­ren­dered to love,” writes Chris Webb. ​“This is the way of holi­ness; Christ invites you to walk in it.”
Chris Webb
Chris Webb
February 27, 2020
Hands With Ash

I Was an Ash Wednes­day Rookie

Ren­o­varé Direc­tor of Edu­ca­tion Car­olyn Arends shares how the litur­gi­cal ser­vice enriched her non-litur­gi­cal faith.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
February 25, 2020
02 17 Virtuous Life

The Mod­el of a Vir­tu­ous Life

In this excerpt from Richard Fos­ter’s Streams of Liv­ing Water, a bio­graph­i­cal sketch of Diet­rich Bon­ho­ef­fer offers an exam­ple not only of the Holi­ness Tra­di­tion, but of the bal­ance of all six streams of Chris­t­ian tradition.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
February 23, 2020
Wooden Pew

Holi­ness: More Than Avoid­ing Vice

Defin­ing holi­ness by exter­nal mea­sures leads to legal­ism. Richel­la Parham helps us move beyond avoid­ing vice and into build­ing a life of virtue.
Richella Parham
Richella Parham
February 18, 2020
Lent Ash Wednesday Cross On Forehead

Why Lent?

The forty day jour­ney of Lent is marked in days but lived in grace. Kai Nilsen, one of the authors of the Ren­o­varé devo­tion­al Less is More, leads us into this sea­son of preparation.
Kai Nilsen
Kai Nilsen
February 16, 2020
John The Baptist Mosaic

Authen­ti­cal­ly Holy

In too-con­stant­ly revis­it­ing our bro­ken­ness, are we cloud­ing the promise of spir­i­tu­al ren­o­va­tion and restora­tion? Car­olyn Arends asks us to con­sid­er how walk­ing in the with-God life can make us both whol­ly authen­tic and authen­ti­cal­ly holy. Eat­ing locusts and hon­ey is optional.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
February 9, 2020