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God’s Sensor

From Fearfully and Wonderfully, a story of how prayer in the body of Christ functions similarly to the nervous system in a human body.

Philip Yancey

January 10, 2025

Sunset Conversation

Why Pray If God Already Knows?

With help from the church fathers and mothers, Chris Hall considers what communication is like with the God whose knowledge is inseparable from his love.

Christopher A. Hall

January 10, 2025

Purpose over Preference

Carolyn Arends shares a reflection on how focusing in on the purpose of worship will keep us from spiritualizing our own preferences in music, ambience, and liturgy.

Carolyn Arends

January 10, 2025

Feather And Sky

Keeping Our Souls Light

Poor choices form poor habits which lead to dull and heavy hearts. Chris Hall with help from Abba Isaac lights the way back to feather-like sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.

Christopher A. Hall

January 10, 2025

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Imprinting with God

“The lifelong dynamic of baptism as a lifestyle is what makes it endlessly meaningful,” writes pastor and author Eric Peterson. He expands our thinking of this sacrament from a one-time event to a way of living in Jesus.

Eric E. Peterson

January 10, 2025

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Model of a Life Well Lived

Richard Foster reflects on the “human supernova” who changed his life forever: Dallas Willard. In this foreword to Becoming Dallas Willard, Richard shares memories of his friend and why he believes that Dallas’s life is a model for our time.

Richard J. Foster

January 10, 2025

A Convert’s Conversion

“The longer I’ve walked with Jesus,” shares Carolyn Arends, “the more I’ve come to see two things. First, my four-year-old conversion was utterly genuine. Second, I am in desperate need of ongoing conversion. My initial salvation moment was not an arrival, but a beginning.”

Carolyn Arends

January 10, 2025

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Healing from Race-Based Trauma

Author and counselor Sheila Wise Rowe knows first-hand the effects of racial trauma. She encourages us to “create spaces in person and across social media for one another to experience God’s healing, love, compassion, and grace.”

Sheila Wise Rowe

January 10, 2025

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A South Pole Advent

Sometimes in this Advent season of busyness and bustle, we can find ourselves surprised by a sort of emptiness in our response to it all. For anyone feeling a bit lost in the wilderness this year, Carolyn Arends reminds us that an empty sort of longing is really a large part of what Advent is about.

Carolyn Arends

January 10, 2025

Advent: Learning to Wait

In a time of year that too often rushes headlong toward Christmas Day, Richella Parham reminds us about the courage we need to wait upon the Lord—a courage we live out in the Advent season as we both look back with joy to the first coming of Christ and ahead with longing to his coming return.

Richella Parham

January 10, 2025