The Renewable Energy of Fruitful Work

Can work actually increase our energy in the midst of our busyness? Author Kai Nilsen explores fruitful work in this excerpt from his book, Renew Your Life: Discovering the Wellspring of God’s Energy.

Kai Nilsen

Featured May 16, 2022 (Original Sep 2015 )

The Most Significant Thing We Do on Earth

Community is a buzzword. But building and cultivating relationships with others is one of our highest callings. Spiritual formation groups provide a practical way to intentionally foster community that leads to Christlikeness.

Nathan Foster

Featured May 16, 2022 (Original Dec 2014 )

God Cares for Us Through One Another

James Bryan Smith describes a particularly meaningful celebration of communion with a small group of fellow disciples, and the clarity it gave him about our interconnectedness in the Body of Christ.

James Bryan Smith

Featured May 16, 2022 (Original Nov 2024 )

Becoming Like Christ

For Christians, heaven is not the goal. The goal is for Christ to be formed in us. Richard Foster shows how that forming happens through experiential, formal, and instrumental means.

Richard J. Foster

Featured May 13, 2022 (Original Feb 1996 )

Conversion: A Moment, A Lifetime

This devotional classic from E. Stanley Jones is “as up-to-date as tomorrow morning.” Conversion, Jones says, is both a one-time event and the work of a lifetime, one that requires receptivity and response.

E. Stanley Jones

Featured May 13, 2022 (Original Dec 1958 )

The Renovaré Covenant: Legacy and Invitation

Richella Parham, Renovaré Board and Ministry Team member, shares a little bit about the history of the Renovaré Covenant with us.

Richella Parham

Featured May 3, 2022 (Original May 2016 )

The Simplest and Most Effective Way of Mind Renewal in Christ

Dallas Willard brings us back to the basics, asserting that “the simplest and most effective way of mind renewal in Christ is memorization of Scripture: large passages of it as well as individual verses.”

Dallas Willard

Featured May 2, 2022 (Original Jan 2010 )

His Father is Our Father

Carolyn Arends invites us to consider three revolutionary implications of Jesus’ teaching us to address God as “Our Father.”

Carolyn Arends

Featured April 25, 2022 (Original May 2021 )

Catching Our Breath

Chris Hall invites us to find unhurried spaces where we can “discern the quiet, insistent voice of God calling us into his wonderful, breathtaking mystery.” Come and refresh your soul.

Christopher A. Hall

Featured April 25, 2022 (Original Nov 2016 )

An Everyday Experiment in Hearing God

Richard Foster shares a few journal entries from a time when he was tuning his ear to “the vocabulary of God.”