An Invitation to Openness and Honesty
“Prayer is a principal means of healing and reshaping our character into the image of Christ.” Chris Hall shares a few ancient Christian perspectives on transforming our inner thoughts and outward behaviors through honest conversation with God.
Featured February 28, 2022 (Original Mar 2018 )
Why Bother With Discipleship?
In this excerpt from The Great Omission, Dallas Willard explains that salvation is more than forgiveness. It involves drawing near to Jesus as his student and friend (discipleship) so that our inward thoughts and motivations can be shaped in his likeness (spiritual formation).
Featured February 28, 2022 (Original Sep 1995 )
“Gennesaret” and “Withdraw”
Two excerpts from God Speaks Through Wombs gift us with personal responses to Luke’s gospel from the imagination of poet Drew Jackson.
Featured February 21, 2022 (Original Sep 2021 )
Some Thoughts on Creative Reading
“Please realise that words are not just ‘talky-talk’ — they are real and vital,” writes Dorothy Sayers. With inimitable wit, Sayers encourages readers to discuss the books they digest and to never underestimate the importance of words.
Featured February 21, 2022 (Original Jan 1941 )
Abiding Is Everything
As the rising popularity of spiritual formation inevitably “dumbs down” its core concepts, Richard Foster answers the need for clarity and depth in this Heart to Heart letter about the formation process and some ways we can imitate and abide in Christ.
Featured February 20, 2022 (Original May 1997 )
Practicing Shalom in Our Time
In this personal reflection, pastor and Renovaré Ministry Team member Juanita Rasmus shares the ways she has found to be a vessel of shalom in broken world.
Featured February 14, 2022 (Original Aug 2016 )
Becoming Like Jesus: Compassionate Life
Chris Webb examines what it means to live out the Compassionate Life “in the ever widening concentric circles of community in which we live.”
Featured February 14, 2022 (Original Dec 2010 )