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Renewing Our Most Basic Commitment

Marva Dawn and Eugene Peterson present a counter-cultural call for pastors to honor their basic commitment as Christians over and above professional religious duties, and to embrace an identity as “unnecessary” to unhealthy demands of culture, ego, and congregational ambitions.
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Eugene H. Peterson & Marva Dawn
November 17, 1999
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How Can Churches and Ministries Recover Their Founding Vision?

Dallas Willard offers wise counsel to help us avoid letting service to Christ usurp love of Christ.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
August 14, 2018
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Why Leaves are Loudest Just Before They Die

Hannah Anderson searches out the spiritual and theological truths woven deep within the autumnal glories of the Virginia mountains.
Hannah Anderson
Hannah Anderson
February 1, 2021
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To See Clearly

Writer Annie Dillard looks at the mysterious natural environment at Tinker Creek and records her insights into this physical, yet extraordinarily spiritual, world.
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
March 27, 2015
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Waiting, Stillness, and Abundant Life

“Waiting is right at the heart of Christian spirituality.” Richard Foster penned this essay on the confluence of waiting, stillness, and abundance in Christian life in a vintage Heart to Heart letter.
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Richard J. Foster
November 20, 2007
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A Magical Universe

In this “profoundly incarnational selection,” G. K. Chesterton suggests that it is a fallacy of materialism to see nature’s repetition as impersonal or “clockwork.” Instead, he muses, perhaps God, in his inexhaustible creativity, “makes each daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.”
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G.K. Chesterton
January 1, 1908
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Christians and Decided Christians

Thomas Kelly writes about the intentional, “decided” character of true Christianity, which places “the whole of life in a new and divine Center.”
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Thomas R. Kelly
December 1, 2016
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Rolling as a Mighty Ocean

Zane Creamer offers us a personal account of fighting both for and against life. She reflects upon the “power, vastness, and mysterious depths” of the ocean that demand respect of swimmer and sailor alike, and considers how those same qualities are found in the love of Jesus.
Zane Creamer
Zane Creamer
September 27, 2016
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“God, what do you think about me?”

Nathan Foster tells the story of how he came to know God’s love, and how that love became the central reality that reshaped his identity and propelled him into a life of spiritual renewal.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
September 30, 2014
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The First Thing Necessary for Salvation

In a piece that helps us reexamine what evangelism means, Watchman Nee writes, “We are not required—in the first place—to believe, or to repent... we are required only to approach the Lord with an honest heart.”
Watchman Nee
Watchman Nee
April 30, 1990