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Baptize My Eyes

What would it be like to see as God sees? Writer and photographer Katelyn Dixon shares about a prayer that God answered with a sweet gift of sight and insight.
Katelyn J. Dixon
Katelyn J. Dixon
Featured May 31, 2022 (Original May 2022 )
Neighbor

How to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Based on workshop notes, these thoughts from Dallas Willard explain how our closest relationships are the primary classroom for learning to love well. As we learn, we can “bring more people into the range of our effective neighbor-love,” including our enemies.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
Featured May 31, 2022 (Original Jan 2025 )
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Liturgy for Grieving a National Tragedy

“You alone have strength to carry this people. Carry us now, O Lord.” In a time of collective grieving, we are thankful for the succor of written liturgies that move us into prayer when we have no words.
Douglas McKelvey
Douglas McKelvey
Featured May 25, 2022 (Original May 2022 )
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Grief

What can anyone say or do in the face of tragic loss? Richard Foster’s letter from 1992 offers wise counsel on how to stand with people in their grief.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured May 24, 2022 (Original Jul 1992 )
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Bringing Solitude into Our Lives

Henri Nouwen explains our critical need for solitude—that “strange period of uselessness”—to bring us in touch with the healing, hopeful presence of God in our lives.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Featured May 23, 2022 (Original Jun 1981 )
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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
Kai Nilsen
Featured May 16, 2022 (Original Sep 2015 )
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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
Nathan Foster
Featured May 16, 2022 (Original Dec 2014 )
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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
James Bryan Smith
Featured May 16, 2022 (Original Jan 2025 )
Potter Hands

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
Richard J. Foster
Featured May 13, 2022 (Original Feb 1996 )
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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
E. Stanley Jones
Featured May 13, 2022 (Original Dec 1958 )