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Articles & Essays by Renovaré Team

Rembrandt Prodigal
Book Excerpt

The True You

Published December, 2023 • Featured November 8, 2023

God welcomes you ​“as you are,” but he also has plans to restore you to the fullness of your humanity.
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Song/Hymn

Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus

Published December, 1744 • Featured December 21, 2021

In two short stanzas, Charles Wesley announces the good news of the kingdom, available to us through the one ​“born a child and yet a King.” This hymn offers us a chance to consider the offer of Christ’s rule and how we will respond.
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Essay

What is Spiritual Direction?

Published February, 2009 • Featured June 4, 2021

What is spiritual direction and how do you choose a spiritual director?
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Article

Beauty of Holiness

Published September, 2019 • Featured February 9, 2020

From​The Reservoir devotional, this one-week excerpt explores true holiness and virtue.
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Book Excerpt from The Reservoir

How Did Jesus Pray? (A One-Week Devotional)

Published September, 2019 • Featured January 1, 2020

From The Reservoir, these daily devotionals dive into the Contemplative Stream: The Prayer-filled Life.
Worship
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Worship

Featured December 20, 2019

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to worship.
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Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: The With-God Life

Published April, 2005 • Featured November 10, 2019

These Scripture passages compiled by Dallas Willard for the Life With God Bible reveal a God who does not redeem people from far away. God is up close and personal, most especially in the person of Jesus — Immanuel, God with us.
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Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Reading the Bible with the Mind and the Heart

Published March, 2005 • Featured November 3, 2019

We must consider how we can ourselves come to the Bible and also how we can present it to people in a way that does not destroy the soul, but inducts it into the eternal kind of life.
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Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Celebration

Featured February 5, 2019

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to celebration.
Lighthouse Guidance
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Guidance

Featured January 9, 2019

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is designed to give readers a picture of the with-God life in the Bible and the role of the Spiritual Disciplines in fostering that kind of life. Here are passages related to Guidance, an interactive friendship with God that gives direction and purpose to daily life.
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Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Confession

Published May, 2005 • Featured November 8, 2018

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is designed to give readers a picture of the with-God life in the Bible and the role of the Spiritual Disciplines in fostering that kind of life. Here are passages related to Confession.
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Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Solitude

Featured September 23, 2018

What does the Bible have to say about the role of Spiritual Disciplines in nurturing our life with God and growth in grace? Here are Scripture passages related to the discipline of Solitude.
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Interview

On Suffering: An Interview with James Bryan Smith and Bill Vaswig

Published April, 2005 • Featured August 29, 2018

Renovaré team members James Bryan Smith and William Vaswig describe their experiences of suffering, physical helplessness, grief, disappointment, loneliness, and waywardness.
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Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Simplicity

Featured July 24, 2018

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to simplicity and frugality.
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Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

A Brief Overview of the With-God Life

Featured June 27, 2018

From the Life with God Bible, this brief overview of biblical history helps us grasp how the divine drama took concrete forms in each age as people encountered God.
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Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

A Panoramic View of God's Purpose in History

Featured June 25, 2018

In addition to understanding the Bible’s overarching theme in the with-God life and its transformation of the People of God, it is also helpful to view the Bible panoramically across the expanse of time.
Bible Study
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Study

Featured June 14, 2018

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to study.
02 09 Let Go
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Submission

Featured February 8, 2018

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index is designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible.
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Article

Light Their Tails, Let Them Go

Featured January 25, 2018

At a recent Renovaré Institute residency, Richard Foster and Nathan Foster joined us for a few Q&A sessions on the streams, the disciplines, and spiritual formation. One of our students asked Richard where Institute alumni fit into the greater Renovaré story. We share Richard’s answer here.
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Article

Happy Jólabókaflóð!

Featured November 29, 2017

For the bibliophiles in our midst (including us!), the country of Iceland has created the most charming and imitation-worthy Christmas tradition of Christmas Book Flood. If you, like C.S. Lewis, cannot find ​“a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough” to suit you, read on.