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Reading the Bible with the Mind and the Heart

“God not only originated the Bible through human authorship; he remains with it always. It is God’s book. No one owns it but God himself. It is the loving heart of God made visible and plain. And receiving this message of exquisite love is the great privilege of all who long for life with God.”
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
Featured July 26, 2024 (Original Mar 2005 )
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The Jogging Monk and the Exegesis of the Heart

James Bryan Smith tells the story of how he came to read Scripture by “listening to the text, reflecting on it, asking not merely what it means, but what it is asking of me, what it is asking me to hear.”
James Bryan Smith
James Bryan Smith
Featured July 26, 2024 (Original Jul 1991 )
Distraction

Modern Media and Tech—Blessing or Curse?

“What we as a species now face in terms of access to entertainment, communication, and information is completely unprecedented in the whole of human existence.” In this foreword to Everyday Sabbath, Nathan Foster ponders the role of technology and media in our lives.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
Featured July 18, 2024 (Original Aug 2021 )
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Practicing the Presence of Christ

Trevor Hudson explains classical practices for growing our awareness of God’s presence “wherever we are and in whatever we are doing.”
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
Featured July 18, 2024 (Original Nov 2010 )
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A Holy Inactivity

Could inactivity, in the company of the Good Shepherd, be holy? Brother Lawrence takes us into the practice of the presence of God with this excerpt from his writings.
Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence
July 11, 2024
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Learning To Trust The Slow Work Of God

Carolyn Arends reminds us that spiritual formation is a slow process by design. “Let’s not mistake God’s patience for inactivity.”
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
Featured July 11, 2024 (Original Sep 2020 )
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Dallas Willard on Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle

“This book and this author,” Dallas Willard says in regard to Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle, “immediately announced themselves as a unique presence of God in my life.”
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
Featured July 11, 2024 (Original Dec 2003 )
Transformation

A People, Transforming

Mimi Dixon writes about the swelling influence of Celebration of Discipline: “Individuals from every race and nation and tongue and stratum of society were joining hearts and hands and minds and voices in a shared commitment to go deep in their life with God.”
Miriam Dixon
Miriam Dixon
Featured June 28, 2024 (Original May 2024 )
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Self-Denial Without Self-Hatred

“Most of us have been exposed to such a mutilated form of biblical submission that either we have embraced the deformity or we have rejected the Discipline altogether,” Foster writes. This Celebration of Discipline excerpt explains why true submission has nothing to do with self-hatred.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured June 28, 2024 (Original Dec 1977 )
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Making Companionship With God a Priority at All Costs

In this excerpt from Soul Care in African American Practice, Barbara Peacock calls out patterns of busyness that threaten our intimacy with God. She encourages us to “make companionship with God a priority” by setting aside times to soak in the presence of Jesus.
Barbara Peacock
Barbara Peacock
Featured June 13, 2024 (Original May 2020 )