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Essay

Recovering the Art of Scripture Listening

Published May, 2019 • Featured May 30, 2019

Ren­o­varé Board Chair Jon Bai­ley makes a com­pelling case that we need to ​“recov­er and cul­ti­vate the lis­ten­ing life, a life that’s com­mit­ted to lis­ten­ing to Scrip­ture, a life that expe­ri­ences fresh growth and grace as we keep God’s Word in our ears.”

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The Great Concealment

Featured December 21, 2017

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! 

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The Way

Featured October 26, 2017

How glad we are to have Jon Bai­ley join us again — this time to share some of his thoughts on the invi­ta­tion to the spir­i­tu­al life. Wel­come in the day by con­sid­er­ing this with-God life as a jour­ney with a des­ti­na­tion, but no end.

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Taking the First Step

Featured October 12, 2017

We’re delight­ed to share with you a recent reflec­tion from our own board chair, Jon Bai­ley. In this mus­ing on the many facets of God’s love for us, Jon encour­ages us not to become dis­cour­aged if we are pushed to grow in new direc­tions. God’s love wants noth­ing less than what is best for us.

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What the Spirit is Doing In and Through You

Featured August 9, 2017

With win­some per­son­al sto­ries in every chap­ter and deep the­o­log­i­cal insights through­out, Trevor Hud­son’s book Holy Spir­it Here and Now is a pas­toral guide worth check­ing out. Ren­o­varé board chair Jon Bai­ley shares his thoughts after read­ing Trevor’s book with us here.

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Becoming Love

Featured October 27, 2016

Ren­o­varé’s board chair, Jon Bai­ley leads us into the week­end with a love­ly med­i­ta­tion on God’s love and how it ​“woos and weans, draws and dri­ves, push­es and pulls” us ever clos­er to Christlikeness.

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Welcoming Jane Willard to the Ministry Team

Featured September 28, 2016

We are delight­ed to announce the addi­tion of Jane Willard to our Min­istry Team. Our board chair, Jon Bai­ley, shares with us a lit­tle of her sto­ry, while Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ty Life, Nathan Fos­ter, chimes in with his appro­ba­tion. Jane offers a few com­ments of her own. Wel­come, Jane!

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Escaping Compulsions

Published August, 2016 • Featured August 25, 2016

Our end­less cycle of res­o­lu­tion against, strug­gle with, and los­ing to our deeply ingrained com­pul­sions can feel a bit like being con­fined with a goril­la. We can­not get rid of it, but have to fig­ure out how to escape. Jon Bai­ley runs with this pow­er­ful metaphor and offers some hope in today’s post.

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Announcing Nathan Foster as Renovaré's Director of Community Life

Featured May 4, 2016

Thurs­days here on Ren​o​vare​.org we often run ​“spe­cial fea­tures” about Ren­o­var­i­an hap­pen­ings. Today, it is our very great plea­sure to post a fea­ture that is spe­cial indeed, in the form of a let­ter from Renovaré’s board chair, Jon Bailey.

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When Altar Calls Don't Work

Featured April 13, 2016

What hap­pens when a boy who loves adven­ture dis­cov­ers he’s been invit­ed into the very life of God? Renovaré’s board chair, Jonathan Bai­ley, reveals some of his faith jour­ney in this month’s issue of Chris­tian­i­ty Today.

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How Self-Worth Skyrockets

Featured February 18, 2016

Any­one can tell you we have issues of errat­ic self-worth in our cul­ture. In this immense­ly prac­ti­cal piece, entre­pre­neur (and Ren­o­varé board chair) Jon Bai­ley sug­gests that self-esteem is incom­plete with­out the miss­ing ingre­di­ent of self-discipline.

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James Catford joins Board of Trustees

Featured February 3, 2016

James Cat­ford is a won­der­ful exam­ple of how God con­tin­ues to bless the ongo­ing work of Ren­o­varé and I am excit­ed to wel­come him to the team.