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Heart to Heart May 2006

In this May 2006 pastoral letter to the Renovaré community, Richard Foster lays out the characteristics and principles of spiritual formation based congregations, and puts practical skin on them with personal stories.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured October 30, 2020 (Original May 2006 )
No Knead Whole Wheat Bread

The Sustaining Bread of Self-Knowledge

Richard Foster joins us to share (with the help of Teresa of Ávila) why the Prayer of Examen is essential to self-knowledge and why self-knowledge is essential to spiritual health. An excerpt from Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured April 29, 2020 (Original Sep 1992 )
Trees Aspen

Lessons From the Trees

Nathan Foster explores how trees teach us how to grow slow, root deep, and wait with patience for the resurrection of spring.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
Featured March 15, 2019 (Original Mar 2016 )
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Embracing Suffering

Richard Foster writes about our culture’s “suffering avoidance” and Christ’s call to identify with those who suffer.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured August 31, 2018 (Original Feb 2006 )
Sheep in a hurry

A Hurry-Free Life

Does “relentlessly eliminate hurry” mean embracing an inefficient life? Carolyn Arends explores if it is possible to work quickly without being in a hurry.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
January 9, 2025
Drowning hand reaching up

How to Pray While Drowning In Doubt

Without pretense or platitudes, Tish Harrison Warren lights the candle of nighttime prayer to help us find a path forward in the darkness of doubt and grief.
Tish Harrison Warren
Tish Harrison Warren
January 9, 2025
Crafting

Creativity in the Chaos

When COVID-19 began, Carolyn Arends noticed something weird: people were crafting. They responded to chaos with cosmos. And regardless of our artistic ability, all of us are made in the image of the Creator and instilled with a desire to create order and beauty.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
January 9, 2025
Woman swing jungle

Finding God at the End of Our Rope

Dallas Willard was right, says Lacy Borgo, “God’s address is at the end of our rope.” To stay centered and connected in seasons of struggle, she invites us to pray the Psalms and to play as a “stubborn act of hope.”
Lacy Finn Borgo
Lacy Finn Borgo
January 9, 2025
Gas gauge on empty

God’s Crash School

“Hitting my own bottom of depression,” writes Juanita Rasmus, “has enabled me to come to an amazing awareness: I had been sourcing my life from an illusion.” That awareness led her to find the source of her being and life is not in self-made rules but in Christ.
Juanita Campbell Rasmus
Juanita Campbell Rasmus
January 9, 2025
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Two Simple Questions for Cultivating Self-Kindness

Cindy Bunch offers a simple way to look back on each day that can lead to increased compassion toward self and empathy toward others.
Cindy Bunch
Cindy Bunch
January 9, 2025