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Articles & Essays by Kai Nilsen

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Essay

The Death and the Dance

Featured February 16, 2024

Kai Nilsen explains that Lenten practice is on the rise in a variety of denominations that are “awakening to the beauty of ritual and the recurring rhythms of the church that embed the life of God deeply within our souls.”

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Article

Why Lent?

Published December, 2012 • Featured February 16, 2020

The forty day journey of Lent is marked in days but lived in grace. Kai Nilsen, one of the authors of the Renovaré devotional Less is More, leads us into this season of preparation.

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Book Excerpt from Renew Your Life

The Renewable Energy of Fruitful Work

Published September, 2015 • Featured October 29, 2019

Can work actually increase our energy in the midst of our busyness? Author Kai Nilsen explores fruitful work in this excerpt from his book, Renew Your Life: Discovering the Wellspring of God’s Energy.

Book Excerpt from Engage

Giving Up Control for Lent

Published December, 2013 • Featured March 5, 2019

For the start of Lent, pastor Kai Nilsen invites us into the practice of submission — humble, open, mutually dependent relationship with God and with one another.