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Meeting on Mountains

In this Transfiguration Sunday piece, Renovaré’s Director of Education Carolyn Arends draws us into a creative reimagining of the reunion of friends on Mount Tabor.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
November 24, 2024
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The Silent Beach, the Bowl of Stars

This week’s guest editor, Renovaré Board and Ministry Team member Mimi Dixon, invites us to share in the wonder and rhythm of relationships and the “ebb and flow” of all cycles in this excerpt from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s A Gift from the Sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
November 24, 2024
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Worship con Queso

Director of Education Carolyn Arends shares how a truly magnificent chile con queso can move her to worship and muses, along with C.S. Lewis, that “every earthly pleasure is an apprenticeship in adoration for the sort of thing that will go on forever in heaven.”
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
November 24, 2024
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The Bible Just Left the Building

This week’s guest editor (and Renovaré Board member) James Catford ushers us into the weekend with a thoughtful piece on Scripture’s endangered status as center of knowledge in too many churches, why we should have confidence in our holy texts, and how we can engage with the Bible in ordinary life.
James Catford
James Catford
November 24, 2024
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Discovering a World Packed with God

Renovaré board and ministry team member Margaret Campbell shares both family memories and some observations by Frank Laubach (Letters by a Modern Mystic) that have taught her to be open to and aware of “a world jam-packed with God.”
Margaret Campbell
Margaret Campbell
November 24, 2024
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O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing

We invite you to enjoy a favorite hymn: Charles Wesley’s O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing. As we read his journey through the many verses (perhaps even singing along), we too can remember “all that the Lord has done for us.”
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Charles Wesley
November 24, 2024
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“To Do His Will in All Things”

Come and be introduced to (or reacquainted with) Rebecca Jackson, a Black freewoman of the 19th Century who became a Shaker eldress and mission founder. This excerpt from her autobiography paints in vivid colors her rich prayer life and desire for right relationship with God and man.
Rebecca Jackson
Rebecca Jackson
November 24, 2024
05 20 God Ideas

Why Our God Ideas Matter

God does not want you to enjoy yourself and be happy. God is not trustworthy. God is holding out on you. God does not want you to be like him, and it isn’t possible anyway. If these are among your ideas about God, Elane O’Rourke would like to offer you a mental re-set in this grace-filled article.
Elane O'Rourke
Elane O'Rourke
November 24, 2024
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Inconvenience Rightly Considered

G.K. Chesterton invites us all to take a child’s-eye view of the world in all its mystery and adventure -- even though that may mean transcending our annoyance at an inconvenience (or two) that is met along the way.
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
November 24, 2024
06 13 Doubt

The Elephant in the Room

There is an “elephant in the room of our followership of Christ”: doubt. This Dallas Willard piece offers insight into living the with-God life in the midst of doubt.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
November 24, 2024