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01 04 Fasting

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Fasting

We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. From the earliest days of Israel through Revelation, God has used fasting as a way to draw his people near.
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
01 04 Fellowship

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Fellowship

We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. One of the sweetest gifts of the Spirit is fellowship. Scripture guides us through this life we live together.
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
01 04 Meditation

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Meditation

We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Prayerful rumination upon God, his Word, and his world fills these Scripture passages.
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
01 05 Prayer

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Prayer

We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Prayer is “an interactive conversation with God about what we and God are thinking and doing together.” Scripture is filled with these conversations; here is a good selection from Genesis to Revelation.
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
01 05 Oil

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Sacrifice

We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. The Bible has many references to sacrifice—deliberately forsaking the security of satisfying our own needs with our resources in the faith and hope that God will sustain us
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
01 05 Secrecy

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Secrecy

We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Scripture refers often to the idea of a holy secrecy, which is “Consciously refraining from having our good deeds and qualities generally known, which, in turn, rightly disciplines our longing for recognition.”
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
01 05 Serivce

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Service

We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Scripture speaks often on service—that is, loving, thoughtful, active promotion of the good of others & the causes of God in our world, through which we experience the many little deaths of going beyond ourselves.
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
01 05 Silence

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Silence

We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. These verses help us close off our souls from “sounds,” whether noise, music, or words, so that we may better still the inner chatter and clatter of our noisy hearts and be increasingly attentive to God.
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
Simple Single Leaf

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Simplicity

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to simplicity and frugality.
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
November 24, 2024
01 11 Blessed To Give

The Grace of Giving

​Looking at one of the most practical ways to experience the “blessing of blessing,” Richard Foster prescribes a “lavish and joyful giving” as the antidote to low spiritual vitality, dusty words, and hollow, empty prayers.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
November 24, 2024