Books
Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 25, 2025 The Good Life is a Long Game I’ve been trying to write this email for an embarrassingly long time. And while I’ve typed some things that are clever, and hopefully things that are true, I…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 14, 2022 What Jesus Didn’t Do The world right now is in desperate need of people who can discern what is true from what is half-true, what is major from what is minor, what is primary from…
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 25, 2022 Practicing a Preference for God God is too good to be a vending machine for right answers. God is our Father and our friend who wants to grow our character and our love so we can be people…
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 28, 2022 So Heavenly Minded You’re No Earthly Good? But the lives of the saints through the ages—and of Jesus himself—testify to something else, a kind of heavenly mindedness that makes you more earthly good.
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 21, 2022 The Secret Life of Eugene Peterson “This is a kingdom of life we are living,” Peterson once said. “It has to do with salvation. It has to do with justice. It has to do with compassion, and you…
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Renovaré WeeklyDecember 31, 2021 Living in the Tension Even if resolutions aren't your thing, the New Year still offers an opportunity to reorient our lives toward the Kingdom of God. Some folks find it to be a…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 25, 2021 Which I Don’t Pretend to Understand at All This line from Leonard Cohen’s song “Democracy” expresses what many throughout the ages have felt about Jesus’ most famous sermon: awe-filled recognition of…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 30, 2020 Important or All-Important He wasn’t saying that form doesn’t matter. We should engage in vigorous conversations about what it looks like to gather as believers, especially in this…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 8, 2020 The Way Things Really Are As a professor of philosophy and a student of Jesus, Dallas Willard spent his life exploring and transcribing reality to help the rest of us access it more…
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 EpisodeDallas Willard — Living the Divine Conspiracy
May 17, 2021
From the Renovaré 1999 international conference, Dallas Willard talks about what it means for our lives to become eternal—to be caught up into God's life. -
Podcast EpisodeDallas Willard — God Wants to Be Seen
April 27, 2020
In this classic talk from the Renovaré 1999 international conference, Dallas Willard explains how, no matter what hurt may come, the world is a perfectly safe…
Articles
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ArticleOff to Work We Go “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard..." From The Scandal of the Kingdom, read…
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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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ArticleFollowing Jesus and Living in the Kingdom In an insightful interview, Dallas Willard addresses imbalances sometimes present in evangelical and charismatic contexts and points us toward life in the…
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ArticleAcknowledging God in All We Do Dallas Willard helps unpack Jesus' invitation to "take our whole life into the kingdom of God and learn how to live the life God has given us in the power of…
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ArticleEntering the Ultimate Reality Thoughts on the Present Availability of the Kingdom of God The life for which you were made — a life intertwined with the Trinity and growing in closeness, communication, and surrender to God — is open to you. The…
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ArticlePractical Ways to Live All of Life With God Practicing the Incarnational Tradition In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster provides very practical ways to live all of life—everyday home and family and work life—with God.
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ArticleWhat Makes a Job Sacred? Are some callings holier than others? Carolyn Arends explores the question and discovers our view of the gospel and our posture toward work are inextricably…
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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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ArticleFour Paradoxes of Christian Simplicity Christian simplicity is not just a faddish attempt to respond to the chaotic and materialist world in which we find ourselves; it is a call given to every…
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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…
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ArticleThe Kingdom is Calling Chris Webb helps us understand a concept at the heart of Jesus' teaching, preaching, and mission —the Kingdom of God.
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ArticleImagine the Day after Your Death Registration for the 2017-18 Renovaré Book Club is open, and we are delighted to offer you a tantalizing taste of our first book this season: Chris Webb's…
