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Dallas Willard Younger

Who Thinks Like This?

Dallas Willard had a profound influence on the lives of many leaders, including one young pastor you might be familiar with.
Gary Moon
Gary Moon
November 24, 2024
Lust

Confessing and Countering Lust

Rebecca DeYoung joins us with some wise counsel on combating the sin of lust. While abnegation of temptations is certainly a useful tool, she contends that cultivating a community that embodies chastity is even more powerful.
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
November 24, 2024
Confession Prayer

Breaking Through to Community

In this excerpt from Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer highlights the necessity of confession in the Christian community for removing the power of sin over a believer’s life and restoring fellowship.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
November 24, 2024
Worship

Understanding Worship

Turning to Isaiah and John’s responses to the glory of the living God as models, Richard Foster gives us a brief introduction to the practice of worship, reminding us that, whether our encounter with God is one of divine fireworks or a still, small voice, we must answer with awe, wonder, and praise.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
November 24, 2024
Worship2

Worship: A Practical Guide

In this practical guide to the discipline of worship, Adele Calhoun notes that worship is how we reveal what we most value. True Christian worship, she reminds us, means a right ordering of our hearts by putting “God first in our lives.” Adele shares some ways to do this in this post.
Adele Calhoun
Adele Calhoun
November 24, 2024
Advent1

Awakening to Advent

We invite you to take a moment and pause for Advent. Trevor Hudson joins us as our guide with a simple yet profound message. How much we can miss about what God has done and is doing in our lives if we spend our days sleepwalking. Trevor shares how to be awake to the gifts of the season.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
November 24, 2024
Stream Water Flowing

Justice and Liturgical Worship

Richard Foster joins us to offer caution from Scripture on the perils of divorcing our practices of worship from the compassionate heart of our God. Using Amos as his text, Richard connects the acts of worship and service into one joyful expression of praise.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
November 24, 2024
Peace

The Way of Peace

In The Message, Eugene Peterson translates John 1:14 as “the Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood,” crossing the threshold into humanity. James Catford muses on what this means for us today as we invite the surpassing peace of Christ into our Advent season.
James Catford
James Catford
November 24, 2024
Advent2

Wait

How do we wait for someone who has already come? Trevor Hudson joins us today to confront this puzzle of Advent: what does it mean to wait for the Christ who is with us right now?
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
November 24, 2024
Manger And Cross

Christmas Agony and Joy

For Christmas, Brian Morykon invites us to shake off any platitudes we may carry surrounding the concept of joy and enter instead into a sacramental space where agony can walk side-by-side with joy but never overcome it.
Brian Morykon
Brian Morykon
November 24, 2024