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Pauses For Lent: Overcoming Evil

How do we respond to and overcome evil? Trevor Hudson points us to Jesus in this Lent reflection.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
January 10, 2025
Jesus Disciples Fresco

Pauses For Lent: Who Do You Say I Am?

Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” Trevor Hudson unpacks why few questions are more important.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
January 10, 2025
Transfiguration

Pauses For Lent: Mountaintop Experiences

How do we respond to and overcome evil? Trevor Hudson points us to Jesus in this Lent reflection.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
January 10, 2025
Jesus Pouring Water

Pauses For Lent: Redefining Greatness

When Jesus teaches his disciples about what it means to follow him, he redefines the meaning of true greatness.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
January 10, 2025
Bolt Cutter

How to Release Resentment: Steps for Forgiving Others

Nathan shares a personal reflection on the hold of resentment upon our hearts and minds and how “it is possible to release the person, the burden, and the toxicity it places on us into the capable hands of God.”
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
January 10, 2025
04 18 Calling A Friend

Like Calling a Friend and Never Hanging Up

What if praying without ceasing is less like an unending military drill and much more like “calling a friend and never hanging up”? Nate Foster joins us to consider this approach when we commit our ways to drawing deeper into prayer. Whether fun or mundane, the conversation is always worthwhile.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
January 10, 2025
African American Woman Studying Bible

Understanding Study

“Study is the process whereby our minds take on an order conforming to the order of whatever we concentrate upon.” Richard Foster succinctly introduces this month’s discipline of study.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025
Simple Tree

Understanding Simplicity

“Simplicity is an inward reality that results in an outward lifestyle. Both are necessary. ” Richard Foster explains why.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025
Cross Inside Man

Understanding Confession

Confession is the spiritual discipline that allows us to enter into the grace and mercy of God in such a way that we experience forgiveness and healing for the sins and sorrows of the past.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025
06 10 Coal Confession

Free from the Darkness

The twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous helped Nathan Foster admit the exact nature of his wrongs and receive the power of forgiveness which comes through the discipline of confession.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
January 10, 2025