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Book Excerpt from Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice

Stop Trying to Be Good

Published September, 2006 • Featured March 16, 2022
A chapter from Jan Johnson’s book Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice explains the difference between behavior modification and true goodness that the Holy Spirit cultivates in us.
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Living with Less, Loving People More

Published April, 2011 • Featured July 10, 2018
Jan Johnson helps us consider the motives behind why we acquire things — and the joy of living with less.
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Journal/Magazine Article

Listening Prayer

Featured May 3, 2018
Jan Johnson joins us with some words about listening prayer. How can waiting and resting in the Lord lead to utter delight? Jan shares practical methods to dig deeply into this practice of prayer as well as some of the transformative results she’s experienced.
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How to Intercede Like Jesus

Published April, 2018 • Featured April 26, 2018
Jan Johnson’s expands on insight she gained from Oswald Chambers: ​“What we must avoid in intercession is praying for someone to be simply ​‘patched up.’ We must pray that person through into contact with the very life of God.”
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Turning Your Thoughts into Prayers

Featured April 20, 2018
“What do we pray? Whatever piece of God’s will we understand.” Jan Johnson shows how praying without ceasing need not be complicated.
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Book Excerpt from Meeting God in Scripture

Meditation is Different than Application

Featured March 22, 2018
How does meditation differ from application when we are spending time in God’s Word? Jan Johnson joins us to share an excerpt from her book, Meeting God in Scripture, in which she helps us consider the differences and explore the connections between these two practices.
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Book Excerpt from Meeting God in Scripture

Why Meditate on Scripture?

Featured March 15, 2018
There can be a lot of questions about the discipline of meditation on Scripture: What does it mean? How can I practice it? How is it different from prayer? Jan Johnson helps answer some of those in this short excerpt from her book, Meeting God in Scripture.
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Journal/Magazine Article

Welcoming the Stranger

Published February, 2015 • Featured December 11, 2016
While it’s easy to feel a sense of community with those who are like us and with whom we feel a natural closeness, are these the only communities into which we are called as Christians? Guest editor Marlena Graves invites us to reconsider the very nature of community in this piece from Jan Johnson.
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Relaxing into Another Reality

Featured September 25, 2016
In this reflection from Jan Johnson on a particular time spent doing lectio divina on Matthew 8:23 – 27, she invites us in several ways to imagine Jesus’ calm in the face of chaos.