Books
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BookEngage A Lenten Guide for Spiritual Growth This Lenten resource is a guide for reflection, repentance, and renewal. Each week explores a classic spiritual discipline and includes a description of the…
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BookLess is More A Lenten Guide for Personal Renewal Each week during Lent, this devotional helps you explore one of the classic spiritual disciplines. Our hope is that this daily immersion in the Life with God…
Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 20, 2026 Christ’s Calisthenics Is it easy or hard to stay consciously engaged with God as you go through your day? I bet nearly all of us would say it’s hard. Very hard. Out of sight, out of…
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 22, 2024 Were you there? Enter Into key events from Holy Week one step at a time.
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 16, 2024 Full-Stride Freedom The point is to listen to the Spirit about what to fast and what to hold fast, what to release and what to retain. Christ has set us free to live a free life…
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 22, 2019 How It Began and Where It’s Going “What is ‘it’ is LIFE—life with Jesus, interactive relationship with the great God of the universe, inner transformation into Christlikeness.”
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 15, 2019 Does It Smell Like Freedom? Trevor Hudson has simple advice for choosing what to give up (or not) for Lent, and it applies to all spiritual practices: “It needs to have the smell of…
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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 16, 2018 A Posture of Openness to God’s Wonders Lent offers an opportunity—not a requirement—to create space for God's transformative work, making the discipline of submission and the coming Easter…
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 16, 2018 A Posture of Openness to God’s Wonders "Pressing into the season of Lent," writes Kai Nilsen, "is a creative exercise in God's possibility of re-birth for you, for the neighbor, for the whole of…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeAudio Retreat: The Cup — A Meditation for Holy Week on Luke 22
March 22, 2024
Nathan Foster’s audio meditation on Luke 22 invites us to the Mount of Olives where Jesus prayed “let this cup pass from me.” -
Podcast EpisodeCarolyn Arends — Cracking Open Space for God
April 7, 2019
"Advent and Lent are like little door jambs to crack open space in our hearts." In a tender conversation with Nathan Foster, singer/songwriter and Renovaré… -
Podcast EpisodeTrevor Hudson — Meeting Christ in Our Tears
March 24, 2019
When Jesus finds Mary crying at his tomb, he doesn't try to cheer her up or change her. He simply asks, "Why are you weeping?" In this moving talk—interspersed… -
Podcast EpisodeTrevor Hudson — The Litmus Test for Lent
March 10, 2019
Lent is the season when people give up things they enjoy. But is that even a good idea? What's the litmus test for observing Lent—or any spiritual practice,…
Articles
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ArticleThe Significance of the Hour "For centuries, the church has been judged by its creeds and confessions, but today it is being judged by its deeds." This sermon by Reverend Adam Clayton…
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ArticleHoly Week in Jerusalem a pilgrim’s description from around 380 AD A woman's letter to friends is the earliest account of a Holy Land pilgrimage. Egeria's description of the Stations of the Cross gives us a little window into…
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ArticleStill Our hearts long for intimacy with God. Trevor Hudson looks at little ways to embrace the outward and inward stillness where we meet with the Lord.
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ArticleLent Is Good for Us "In a world that celebrates indulging our whims whenever we want, to practice the traditions of Lent is countercultural," writes Tsh Oxenreider in this excerpt…
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ArticleThe Death and the Dance Kai Nilsen explains that Lenten practice is on the rise in a variety of denominations that are “awakening to the beauty of ritual and the recurring rhythms of…
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ArticleFacing Death, Finding Hope Thoughts on the Lenten Collect "Instead of becoming a source of despair, our sin becomes the arena of God’s glory," writes Esau McCaulley in this reflection on the traditional Ash Wednesday…
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ArticleTurning Toward God with Intention Explore the history behind Lent's triad of invitations with Wheaton professor and author, Esau McCaulley.
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ArticleBrought Low Pastor and professor, Kurtley Knight, invites us into the postures and practices of Lent that remind us of our creatureliness and our accountability to God.
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ArticleI Was an Ash Wednesday Rookie How the liturgical service enriched my non-liturgical faith. Renovaré Director of Education Carolyn Arends shares how the liturgical service enriched her non-liturgical faith.
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ArticleWhy Lent? The forty day journey of Lent is marked in days but lived in grace. Kai Nilsen, one of the authors of the Renovaré devotional Less is More, leads us into…
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ArticleWhat’s So Good About Good Friday? Learning to see darker days in a different light Renovaré Director of Education Carolyn Arends reflects on the reasons we should not attempt to avoid the piercing, painful goodness of Good Friday.
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ArticlePauses For Lent: Taking a Stand How do we follow in the footsteps of Christ to confront anything out of kilter with God's kingdom—in ourselves and in our world? Trevor Hudson points us to…
