Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 8, 2024 God Lets Us Have Our Way God lets us—each of us and all of us—have our way. God’s way is better. But on earth his authority is available, not forced. In order for “thy kingdom come,…
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 5, 2024 Kingdoms The journey from the kingdom of self-rule to the kingdom of God might sound too far and too difficult. But if we are willing to receive him, Jesus will meet us…
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 22, 2023 A More Expansive Gospel It wasn’t that my childhood picture of the gospel was wrong. It was simply small and incomplete. My soul longed for a more expansive gospel, which it turns out…
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 20, 2023 Authority A person operating in the authority of Jesus prays with humble power and speaks with directness and love. Their words are endowed with weight from above.
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 10, 2022 Power Behind some of our hesitation, perhaps, is the idea that walking in the power of God must be dramatic or abrasive. But true power, healthy power, godly power…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 3, 2022 Down in the Same Center Sometimes this word is used in non-Christian contexts as a sort of mystical alignment with ourselves or “the universe.” But here I mean it in the sense of…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeJan Johnson — The Scandal of the KingdomNovember 1, 2024
Author and teacher Jan Johnson joins Nate to talk about Jesus' parables that help us understand God's reign. The kingdom parables are the topic of a new… -
Podcast EpisodeWhat is the Kingdom of God?
January 18, 2021
James, Nate, and Richella discuss the Kingdom of God, pandemic loneliness, and practical ways to remember that even when we are separated we are more together…
Articles
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ArticleHow to “Keep Watch” Jan Johnson invites us to reflect on what it means to “keep watch” for Christ, like the wise ones in Jesus’ Parable of the Ten Women.
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ArticleThe Kingdoms of This World in Light of the Kingdom of God Richard Foster shares "theological convictions that surround civic responsibility" in this newsletter from the Renovaré archives.
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ArticleEntering the Kingdom of God Three devotions from Renovaré’s From the Inside Out Journal help us understand how to follow Jesus deeper into the kingdom of God.
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ArticleWhat Did Jesus Come For? In a provocative 1855 Christmas sermon, Rev. C.H. Spurgeon asks, "My brother, have you submitted to the sway of Jesus? Is He ruler in your heart or is He not?"
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ArticleCome, Thou Long Expected Jesus 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…
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ArticleTraining for Reigning Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 4 Dear Friends, “Time and eternity.” In April (2003) we thought together about time and in July about that aspect of eternity we call hell. Now, on to Heaven.…
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ArticleHeart to Heart May 1999 A May 1999 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster traces his early journey in trying to understand the kingdom of God: Hunger for God, Salvation as…
