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Articles & Essays by Jonathan Bailey

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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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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.