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12 5 Understanding The Means
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Understanding the Means

Published January, 2005 • Featured January 4, 2017
This excerpt from the Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible unpacks how Spiritual Disciplines are the practical ways, the means, by which we grow in grace.
12 2 Catching The Vision
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Catching the Vision

Featured January 1, 2017
We are sharing some recently made-available resources from the Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible. This excerpt looks at how we can begin to wrap our minds around the richness of a with-God life.
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In Memoriam: People We Lost in 2016

Featured December 30, 2016
A look back at loved ones in the Renovaré family to whom we said goodbye in 2016.
01 05 Prayer
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Prayer

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Prayer is ​“an interactive conversation with God about what we and God are thinking and doing together.” Scripture is filled with these conversations; here is a good selection from Genesis to Revelation.
01 05 Silence
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Silence

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. These verses help us close off our souls from ​“sounds,” whether noise, music, or words, so that we may better still the inner chatter and clatter of our noisy hearts and be increasingly attentive to God.
01 05 Serivce
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Service

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Scripture speaks often on service — that is, loving, thoughtful, active promotion of the good of others & the causes of God in our world, through which we experience the many little deaths of going beyond ourselves.
01 05 Secrecy
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Secrecy

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Scripture refers often to the idea of a holy secrecy, which is ​“Consciously refraining from having our good deeds and qualities generally known, which, in turn, rightly disciplines our longing for recognition.”
01 05 Oil
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Sacrifice

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. The Bible has many references to sacrifice — deliberately forsaking the security of satisfying our own needs with our resources in the faith and hope that God will sustain us
01 04 Meditation
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Meditation

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Prayerful rumination upon God, his Word, and his world fills these Scripture passages.
01 04 Fellowship
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Fellowship

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. One of the sweetest gifts of the Spirit is fellowship. Scripture guides us through this life we live together.
01 04 Fasting
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Fasting

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. From the earliest days of Israel through Revelation, God has used fasting as a way to draw his people near.
01 04 Chastity
Book Excerpt from Life with God Spiritual Formation Bible

Spiritual Disciplines Index: Chastity

Featured December 19, 2016
We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Reflect upon the value of chastity with these verses from Scripture.
06 21 Roger
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Renovaré Remembers Roger Fredrikson (1920-2016)

Featured June 20, 2016
Please join us in remembering Roger Fredrikson, a beloved member of the Renovaré family, who concluded his earthly journey June 16, 2016 at the age of 95. Roger was an example, leader, mentor, inspiration, and dear friend to many. Our Renovaré family reflects on a life profoundly well-lived.