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

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

Featured July 11, 2024 (Original Dec 2003 )

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

Featured June 28, 2024 (Original May 2024 )

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

Featured June 28, 2024 (Original Dec 1977 )

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

Featured June 13, 2024 (Original May 2020 )

Meeting God in Fatigue

An excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s Sabbatical Journey reveals his frustration with feeling so tired and unproductive and finding God’s grace to “live fatigue as an experience that can deepen my soul.”

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Featured June 13, 2024 (Original Nov 2013 )

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Rejoice, Y’all

Christianity isn’t a solo venture. Marva Dawn explains why “we need the whole Body of the people of God.”

Marva Dawn

Featured May 31, 2024 (Original Apr 1999 )

Getting Along in Community

“A holy nun of our community annoyed me in all that she did”... Thérèse of Lisieux tells how God taught her to embrace a challenging woman in the fellowship.

Thérèse of Lisieux

Featured May 31, 2024 (Original Jan 1898 )

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In Believing the Best

Amy Carmichael shares wisdom about protecting the bonds of love when conflicts stir up unloving thoughts — a challenge for all of us as we move deeper into authentic community.

Amy Carmichael

Featured May 24, 2024 (Original Jan 1979 )

Apologetics in the Manner of Jesus

“The call to ‘give an account’ is not a call to beat unwilling people into intellectual submission,” Dallas Willard explains, “but to be the servant of those in need: often, indeed, the servant of those who are in the grip of their own intellectual self-righteousness and pride.”