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12 14 Walk By Faith

Walking By Faith

​​Renovaré published an Advent devotional in 2013 filled with thoughtful pieces by some of our dearest friends. One of these is most certainly Mimi Dixon, who joins us to share her Second Sunday meditation on the themes of holding to faith and trust while walking unfamiliar pathways.
Miriam Dixon
Miriam Dixon
November 24, 2024
01 02 Marvelous

The Marvelousness of All Things

In the very newness of a very new year—or any time, really—we think it is only fitting and proper that we share some of G.K. Chesterton’s musings on the wonder and wonderfulness of very new people. In every “bulbous head three times too big for the body,” he reminds us, “there is a new universe.”
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
November 24, 2024
01 03 Release

Release with Hope

Sometimes, the start of a new year can serve as an impetus to let go of the destructive things in our lives. The Prayer of Relinquishment can move us from “the struggling to the releasing,” as Richard Foster writes in his book, Prayer: The Heart’s True Home. Here he shares a personal story.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
November 24, 2024
12 22 Concealment

The Great Concealment

As we take a bit of a break from daily website posts to spend the holidays with our families, we are glad to leave you wi​th this charming and profound insight from our board chair, Jon Bailey. We hope it blesses your celebration of the Birth. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! ​
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Bailey
November 24, 2024
12 21 Fourth Sunday Advent

A Reason to Rejoice

Imagine being a Christian in the 5th century and getting to hear this Christmas sermon from Leo the Great ... yeah, we think that’s a really awesome thought, too. Enjoy his meditation and exhortation on the one, uniting reason we have to rejoice this season.
Leo the Great
Leo the Great
November 24, 2024
12 18 Celebration

Celebrate!

At Christmastime, we find it fun to pull out some thoughts on the spiritual discipline of celebration from Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline. ​With a nod to all things un-Scrooge from Nephew Fred added in, we’re going North Pole all the way! May these celebratory ideas enrich your holiday!
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
November 24, 2024
01 08 Jeremiah

Spiritual Power May Look Like Weakness

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:8). We share an always timely reflection from Richard Foster’s The Challenge of the Disciplined Life on the immense power hidden in the seeming weakness of those who remain faithful to God.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
November 24, 2024
01 19 Walk And Talk

A Curious Pattern

When teaching moments are presented to Jesus, he often turns the question back on his questioners—not to frustrate them, but to draw them deeper into the heart of what they are really asking about. Carolyn Arends joins us to consider how this pattern can influence our own sharing of the gospel.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
November 24, 2024
Victory O Lord

Prevail with God

Richard Foster joins us today to offer “a magnificent model” of intercessory prayer from the Exodus 17 story of Moses, Aaron, and Hur. Why is nothing more important than this type of prayer in the “ongoing work of the kingdom of God”? Foster explains in this excerpt from his book on prayer.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
November 24, 2024
01 24 Eagle

What is True Devotion?

In the opening chapter to his work, Introduction to the Devout Life, Francis de Sales explores the nature of true devotion. He believes that “devotion is simply a spiritual activity and liveliness by means of which Divine Love works in us,” that allows us to rise up to God with soaring wings.
Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales
November 24, 2024