Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 8, 2019 Giving Up Taking Ourselves Too Seriously Google tells me safe means "not likely to be harmed or lost." That sounds familiar. Listen to Jesus in 10:28: “I give them eternal life, and they will never…
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 22, 2019 Persevere Until… Long before the unknown author wrote on contemplation, the Apostle Paul provided the remedy for self-focus: “Set your mind on the things above, where Jesus is…
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 16, 2019 An Unhappy Joy? While you can’t will joyfulness, you can take your body to a quiet place and recall the goodness of God and listen for the gentle voice of the Holy Spirit—a…
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 8, 2019 Joy-Strength Like love and peace, joy is a fruit of the Spirit. Duct taping an apple to a stick doesn’t make it an apple tree. Likewise, joy can’t be tacked on. It has to…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeNathan Foster — Celebrating 300 EpisodesJuly 25, 2025
Producers Brian Morykon and Grace Pouch interview Nathan Foster about his role as the host of Life With God and about the podcasting medium as a place for… -
Podcast EpisodeJan Johnson — Being Glad with God (Encore Episode)
June 30, 2023
"Each day is God's gift… But we have a choice." Jan Johnson talks with Nate about how to rejoice and be glad with the help of spiritual disciplines. -
Podcast EpisodeJean Nevills — Joy Is Powerful
February 24, 2019
For Jean Nevills, spiritual director and Renovaré Ministry Team member, celebration was a normal part of her upbringing and is part of everyday life now. In… -
Podcast EpisodeJan Johnson — Being Glad With God
February 10, 2019
A good translation of Philippians 4:4 is, "Celebrate in the Lord, always." But what does that mean in practical terms? Author and teacher Jan Johnson joins…
Articles
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ArticleEastertide: How to Party Like a Christian "Tragedy draws us together, but celebration binds us. There is nothing like a good party to make a people one." Easter is a seven-week celebration, and Lacy…
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ArticleThou Shalt Celebrate Dallas Willard unpacks the discipline of Celebration- enjoying "ourselves, our life, and our world" with God.
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ArticleLaughter of Biblical Proportions All of our dearest hopes and wildest dreams are not half wild enough compared to what God has planned for us. Frederick Buechner gives some Biblical examples.
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ArticleThe Path to Joy In the spiritual life, the only thing that will produce genuine joy is obedience. Richard Foster explains why in this piece from Celebration of Discipline.
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ArticleCarbonated Holiness Laughter is Serious Business From giggles to guffaws and from splitting one's sides to being in stitches, there is nothing quite like a good laugh for all the right reasons to release us…
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ArticleWorship con Queso Director of Education Carolyn Arends shares how a truly magnificent chile con queso can move her to worship and muses, along with C.S. Lewis, that “every…
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ArticleUnderstanding Celebration Richard Foster shares how celebration prevents the spiritual disciplines from deteriorating into soul-killing legalisms and saves us from taking ourselves too…
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ArticleSpiritual Disciplines Index: Celebration 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…
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ArticleHow to Celebrate From her helpful Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, Adele Calhoun invites us into holy celebration with the Trinity.
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ArticleCelebrate! At Christmastime, we find it fun to pull out some thoughts on the spiritual discipline of celebration from Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline. With a…
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ArticleFreedom From Taking Ourselves Too Seriously Richard Foster helps us travel light by laying down the weight of our own religious solemnity.
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ArticleThe Feast that Satisfies and Never Satiates God sets a meal before us—the never ending feast of deepening intimacy with the Trinity through Jesus Christ. Chris Hall describes this extraordinary…
