Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 12, 2019 Cracking Open God is looking for people who are humble, who are honest with themselves and others, who freely open their hearts to him. Breaking in isn’t God’s way. Just as…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 30, 2018 Deadly Sins and Their Remedies We want Christ, the eternal Flame of Love, to burn out of us any pattern of thinking or acting that keeps us from the abundant life he promised. It can be…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 17, 2018 No One Needs to Know A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 9, 2018 The Antidote for Rejection Through the cross of Christ we experience, as Richard Foster writes, "both forgiveness and healing for the sins and sorrows of the past." Should our conscience…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeRebecca K. DeYoung — Deadly Sins and Their RemediesNovember 25, 2018
Vices are bad habits we can rely upon to make our lives not work. So why do we do them? How do we get to the bottom of our sin-symptoms and allow The Master… -
Podcast EpisodePaul Patton — We All Have SecretsNovember 11, 2018
Sometimes the voice, message, and volume of our secrets can dominate us. Enter confession, a practice that leads to healing. To explore this liberating…
Articles
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ArticleBrought Low Pastor and professor, Kurtley Knight, invites us into the postures and practices of Lent that remind us of our creatureliness and our accountability to God.
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ArticleLate Have I Loved Thee North African Bishop St. Augustine was in his 30s when he became a Christian. In this prayer he laments his slowness to open his heart to God. Though his love…
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ArticleBreaking Through to Community In this excerpt from Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer highlights the necessity of confession in the Christian community for removing the power of sin over…
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ArticleConfessing and Countering Lust Rebecca DeYoung joins us with some wise counsel on combating the sin of lust. While abnegation of temptations is certainly a useful tool, she contends that…
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ArticleThe Christian’s Authority to Forgive Sin "The followers of Jesus Christ have been given the authority to receive the confession of sin and to forgive it in his name." Richard Foster unpacks the…
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ArticleFree from the Darkness Nathan Foster shares how he came to know the power of forgiveness through the discipline of confession.
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ArticleSpiritual Disciplines Index: Confession 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…
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ArticleUnderstanding Confession Confession is the spiritual discipline that allows us to enter into the grace and mercy of God in such a way that we experience forgiveness and healing for the…
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ArticleA Call to Reflection and Repentance Whether starting out the Lenten season or any time of the year, spend some time with Hildegard of Bingen. This medieval abbess has some stern words for our…
