Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 20, 2022 The Most Significant Thing We Will Ever Do on Earth Nathan Foster’s words come to mind: “I have now come to believe that building and cultivating relationships is the most significant thing I will ever…
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 29, 2022 His Father Is Our Father Growing in this intimacy with God requires finding space to be with God, both personally and in community (as Chris Hall points out). Without carving out this…
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 1, 2022 The Danger of the Disciplines But there is a way to engage in spiritual practices that is free from performance, free from striving, and yes—from our first day yoked to Jesus—easy and light.
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 30, 2021 Exactly What Is Spiritual Formation? “I want to ask a very elementary question because I’m not certain of the answer,” one podcast listener asked. “Exactly what is spiritual formation? Can you…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 25, 2019 Loving People More Than Plans “Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 11, 2019 A Clarification + A Teachable Moment A thoughtful reader emailed us and kindly expressed concerns about last week’s digest introduction, especially the subject line, “The Upgrade to Holy Spirit.”
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 4, 2019 The Upgrade to Holy Spirit “Part of the upgrade [of the Holy Spirit versus Jesus in the flesh], if you want to look at it that way, is Holy Spirit is with us all the time and isn't…
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 13, 2019 In the Middle of the River As we focus on the Charismatic Tradition this month, that picture of being in the middle of the river is helpful—a place where we are balanced, fluid,…
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 5, 2019 Mountaintops and Valleys Wherever you find yourself, my prayer for you and me is this: zero resistance to the Holy Spirit. When we find ourselves in the upper room may we lay our heads…
Articles
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ArticleThe Availability of the Spirit "The Holy Spirit is already present to us, but often as a stranger, or at most a distant friend," writes Chris Webb. But we are invited to know God at a deeper…
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ArticleHow to Be with Those Who Suffer 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…
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ArticleQuickened by the Spirit Excerpts from Letters on Spiritual Virtues In these 17th century letters, Isaac Penington counsels a friend to “wait diligently for the leadings of the Holy Spirit.”
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ArticleBy the Help of the Almighty Educator, painter, and abolitionist Sarah Mapps Douglass delivered this speech to encourage hearers to take on the cause of the slave as their own. She speaks…
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ArticleDo I Live An Empowered Life? Carolyn Arends writes insightfully and honestly about opening herself to the Holy Spirit's power that is shared with those who live under God's reign.
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ArticleHelping Children Notice God Cooperating with the movement of the Spirit in children’s lives Lacy Finn Borgo offers practical steps adults can take to help children notice God's presence and to draw them deeper into the goodness, beauty, and truth of…
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ArticleThe Holy Spirit Has a History Many have believed that God went silent for hundreds of years after the 1st century. Not so. With the help of his mentor, Tom Oden, Chris Hall learned to trace…
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ArticleThe Kingdom is God’s “Give me a position so I may exercise power,” we demand. “You shall receive power without a position,” Jesus replies. Richard Foster guides us into a better…
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ArticleAn Infusion of the Holy Spirit What is the Incarnational Tradition? How can the Holy Spirit infuse our material world to unite the physical and the spiritual? Join us for an exploration from A Spiritual Formation Workbook of…
