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What Makes a Job Sacred?

Are some callings holier than others? Carolyn Arends explores the question and discovers our view of the gospel and our posture toward work are inextricably linked.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
June 13, 2019
08 25 Secular Work Sacred

The Secular Vocation is Sacred

In this classic essay, Dorothy Sayers restores the sacred dignity of secular work. Calling out the Church for its blindness on this issue, she asks, “How can anyone remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of his life?”
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers
June 12, 2019
Praying Around Table

Becoming Like Jesus: Sacramental Life

Author and priest Chris Webb invites us to remember that nothing which happens after the creation of the cosmos once causes God to revoke his blessing on the material universe: it is “very good.”
Chris Webb
Chris Webb
June 10, 2019
10 07 Running Shoes

Matter Matters

“Maybe our bodies aren’t the cars that drive our souls to the altar,” proposes Carolyn Arends. “Maybe they are an integral part of what we lay on the altar, and are up for healing and holiness with the rest of us.”
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
June 7, 2019
Woman Making Food

Defining The Incarnational Tradition: The Sacramental Life

God likes matter and uses it “to make present and visible the invisible realm of the spirit”. In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster invites us to live sacramentally in all of life.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
June 5, 2019
Man Listening

Recovering the Art of Scripture Listening

Renovaré Board Chair Jon Bailey makes a compelling case that we need to “recover and cultivate the listening life, a life that’s committed to listening to Scripture, a life that experiences fresh growth and grace as we keep God’s Word in our ears.”
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Bailey
May 31, 2019
Bible Open 1Corinthians

Defining The Evangelical Tradition: The Word-Centered Life

From Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster defines the three themes of the Evangelical Tradition: the faithful proclamation of the gospel, the centrality of Scripture, and the confessional witness of the early Christian community.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
May 30, 2019
Open Hands

God is Still Speaking

Scripture as the Word of God written anchors us by giving a blueprint for how God has spoken to his people throughout biblical history. And the Bible itself uses the Word of God in two additional ways. There is the Word of God living, the debar Yahweh, and the Word of God incarnate, Jesus.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
May 29, 2019
Cow In Field

Chewing the Cud of Scripture

Chris Hall examines John Chrysostom’s “constant rereading and memorization of Pauline texts” in his own transformation toward Christlikeness and encourages us to do likewise.
Chris Hall
Chris Hall
May 27, 2019
Glass Blowing

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
May 24, 2019