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Trevor Hudson

Trevor Hudson

Trevor Hudson

Articles & Essays by Trevor Hudson

Forgiveness
Article

Pauses for Lent: Forgiven

Featured March 15, 2024

Hear these words of Jesus: ​“Friend, your sins are forgiven.” Trevor Hudson invites us to pause and consider Christ’s offer.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Lent

Still

Published September, 2015 • Featured March 8, 2024

Our hearts long for intimacy with God. Trevor Hudson looks at little ways to embrace the outward and inward stillness where we meet with the Lord.
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Book Excerpt from Discovering Our Spiritual Identity

Drawing a Picture of God

Published November, 2010 • Featured September 6, 2023

“The way we live is profoundly shaped by our picture of God,” writes Trevor Hudson, and so it’s of the utmost importance that we reflect carefully on the ideas we hold about God and bring them into alignment with the truth.
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Essay

Building a Bridge between Protestants and Catholics

Published September, 2022 • Featured September 15, 2022

Trevor Hudson writes about how the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius provide an opportunity for Catholics and Protestants of all stripes to find ​“common ground” by listening to each other’s experiences of prayer.
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Book Excerpt from Seeking God

What I Learned About Expressing My Desires to God In Three Conversations with Dallas Willard

Published September, 2022 • Featured September 1, 2022

Our heart’s desires — when shaped by the Spirit — lead us into the life that God wants to give us.
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Book Excerpt from Holy Spirit Here and Now

How to Be with Those Who Suffer

Published August, 1994 • Featured July 22, 2022

In this excerpt from his book Holy Spirit Here and Now, Trevor shares wisdom about coming alongside those who suffer, and invites readers into the spiritual discipline of planned encounters with people who suffer.
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Book Excerpt from Discovering Our Spiritual Identity

Practicing the Presence of Christ

Published November, 2010 • Featured December 14, 2021

Trevor Hudson explains classical practices for growing our awareness of God’s presence ​“wherever we are and in whatever we are doing.”
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Exercise from Discovering Our Spiritual Identity

Exercise: Remembering Our Personal Stories

Published November, 2010 • Featured October 14, 2021

Trevor Hudson invites us into a three-part spiritual exercise, designed to refresh our awareness of God-with-us, heal past wounds, and renew our sense of purpose and partnership with the Holy One.
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Book Excerpt from One Day at a Time

Improving Our Conscious Contact with God

Featured August 28, 2020

Trevor Hudson, a nonalcoholic, has found great help in AA’s Twelve Steps. Here he unpacks the Eleventh Step: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God… praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Lent

Pauses For Lent: Taking a Stand

Published January, 2015 • Featured April 13, 2019

How do we follow in the footsteps of Christ to confront anything out of kilter with God’s kingdom — in ourselves and in our world? Trevor Hudson points us to Christ’s triumphal entry in this Lenten reflection.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Lent

Pauses For Lent: Redefining Greatness

Published January, 2015 • Featured April 8, 2019

When Jesus teaches his disciples about what it means to follow him, he redefines the meaning of true greatness.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Lent

Pauses For Lent: Mountaintop Experiences

Published January, 2015 • Featured April 1, 2019

How do we respond to and overcome evil? Trevor Hudson points us to Jesus in this Lent reflection.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Lent

Pauses For Lent: Who Do You Say I Am?

Published January, 2015 • Featured March 25, 2019

Jesus asks his disciples, ​“Who do you say that I am?” Trevor Hudson unpacks why few questions are more important.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Lent

Pauses For Lent: Overcoming Evil

Published January, 2015 • Featured March 18, 2019

How do we respond to and overcome evil? Trevor Hudson points us to Jesus in this Lent reflection.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Advent

Opening Ourselves to Joy

Featured December 19, 2018

Trevor Hudson invites us to reflect upon the internal and external factors that may be conspiring to keep us from the joy that Jesus came to give.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Advent

Wait

Featured December 13, 2018

How do we wait for someone who has already come? Trevor Hudson joins us today to confront this puzzle of Advent: what does it mean to wait for the Christ who is with us right now?
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Advent

Awakening to Advent

Featured December 6, 2018

We invite you to take a moment and pause for Advent. Trevor Hudson joins us as our guide with a simple yet profound message. How much we can miss about what God has done and is doing in our lives if we spend our days sleepwalking. Trevor shares how to be awake to the gifts of the season.
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Book Excerpt from Pauses for Advent

Pauses for Advent: Welcoming

Featured December 6, 2017

It is always a pleasure to welcome one of our favorite Renovaré friends, Trevor Hudson. He has a new Advent devotional out this year called Pauses for Advent: Words of Wonder, and, because we’re enjoying it so much, we thought we’d share today’s entry with you at renovare.org. Be blessed!
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Book Excerpt from Beyond Loneliness

An Invitation to Transforming Friendship​

Featured September 7, 2016

“Telling a lone­ly per­son that God is his or her friend can sound very hol­low,” writes Trevor Hudson. ​“It only becomes mean­ing­ful when we make the divine friend­ship real by mod­el­ing it in our own relationships.”
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Article

Abiding in the Vine: A Pause for Maundy Thursday

Featured March 23, 2016

As this Lenten season draws to a close, South African pastor and Renovaré Institute faculty member Trevor Hudson helps us see that when God is the gardener, even the pain of pruning can be a gift.