Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 30, 2023 Joy Is What Is Real “One of the best ways to stay in touch with reality,” says Jan Johnson, “is to fully notice and even celebrate the good things that happen in our lives…. To…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 26, 2023 God Wishes to Be Enjoyed Jesus’ desire for humans to do what he says is utterly pure—untainted by greed, lack, manipulation, or insecurity. When Jesus wants us to be with him and obey…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 11, 2022 A Circuitous Journey Humans like to explore. Even if one generation has a way of life that seems to be working fine, the next generation will try something new. What Chesterton…
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 23, 2021 Pollen Into Poetry By your tenth decade, life has provided plenty to complain about: pain, sickness, injustice; the disappearance of moral knowledge and the decay of your own…
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 9, 2021 Can Joy Be Chosen? Like love and peace and patience, joy is a fruit. Produce. It’s produced by another process. That means we can’t choose it directly. At least not very well or…
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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…
Articles
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ArticleBoughs of Holly Hannah Anderson invites us to learn from the holly tree the lesson of joy mingled with suffering.
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ArticleThe Joy of Obedience "Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying." Ponder this excerpt from Hannah Whitall Smith's…
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ArticleCultivating a Life of Worship and Joy The more the Word comes to dwell within our hearts, the more we come to love God. The more we love God, the better we are able to worship him. The more we…
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ArticleChristmas Agony and Joy For Christmas, Brian Morykon invites us to shake off any platitudes we may carry surrounding the concept of joy and enter instead into a sacramental space…
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ArticleOpening Ourselves to Joy 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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ArticleThe Marvelousness of All Things In the very newness of a very new year—or any time, really—we think it is only fitting and proper that we share some of G.K. Chesterton's musings on the wonder…
