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Good Things Run Wild

In the short devotion “Good Things Run Wild” from The Eternal Journey, Jonathan Bailey explores what union with God really looks like: freedom.
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Jonathan R. Bailey
Featured June 13, 2025 (Original May 2020 )
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Body

In an essay from Renovaré’s new booklet Body, Bride, Boat, Drew Dixon introduces the Body metaphor for the Church and offers questions to help us reflect on the importance of diversity and unity among the members of the Body.
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Drew L. Dixon
Featured June 6, 2025 (Original May 2025 )
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One Body in Christ

We must “fearlessly practice” unity in the Body, writes Kokichi Kurosaki in this excerpt warning against divisions in the Church.
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Featured June 6, 2025 (Original Feb 2026 )
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Living, Teaching, Practicing

From the newsletter archives… Richard Foster writes, “Like the recurring stitch pattern in a quilt, so prayer threads its way throughout Jesus’ life.”
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Richard J. Foster
Featured May 30, 2025 (Original Apr 1996 )
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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).
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Dallas Willard
Featured May 30, 2025 (Original Sep 1995 )
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The Miracle of Christian Morality

C. Harold Dodd explains that if “the Spirit is within, the mind of the Spirit is the mind of the man himself, and from within works out a growing perfection of life.”
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C. Harold Dodd
Featured May 30, 2025 (Original Feb 2026 )
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Yielding My Control to God

“God has been undoing the illusion of control in my life and career,” writes Bill Simmons, CEO and president of Hope Rises (American Leprosy Missions).
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Bill Simmons
Featured May 23, 2025 (Original Mar 2025 )
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Understanding the Means

This excerpt from the Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible unpacks how Spiritual Disciplines are the practical ways, the means, by which we grow in grace.
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Renovaré Team
Featured May 2, 2025 (Original Jan 2005 )
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The Way of the Beatitudes

Selected excerpts from Pope Francis’s final Good Friday meditation articulate the “way of the Beatitudes.”
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Pope Francis
Featured April 25, 2025 (Original Feb 2026 )
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Fast and Slow

“Our sympathetic nervous systems have raced for twenty-five years now,” write Mark and Lisa McMinn. Slowing down is essential for living well.
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Mark McMinn & Lisa Graham McMinn
Featured April 25, 2025 (Original Feb 2026 )