Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 23, 2026 Learning to Hear God Is Not About… Learning to hear God is not first and foremost about receiving instructions about what to do. It is above all about friendship.
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 27, 2024 To Listen is To Love We don't understand the power of listening or its centrality to spiritual growth. We underestimate the immense treasures we can give and receive through…
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 20, 2024 The Power of Listening Essay
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 9, 2024 Listening Widely Wisdom combines knowledge and practice. It begins with listening widely to people whose lives match their words. From that listening, we discern with the Holy…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 6, 2023 Writing That Restores Our weekly six will explore a topic through a variety of mediums — articles, podcasts, events, etc… Some from Renovaré. Some from others who help with the…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 2, 2023 Disturb Us, Lord I was going to write about how we can become complacent in dysfunction as much as in comfort; about whether and when we should pray for God to shake us out of…
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 10, 2023 Listening Beyond Our Comfort Zone Many of us gravitate toward people like ourselves and to books that confirm what we already know. But spiritual growth requires listening to Christians whose…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 5, 2021 The Other Great Book of God The natural world instructs willing students about God’s rhythms, God’s beauty, God’s balance, God’s glory. It neither replaces nor supersedes Scripture, but…
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 22, 2021 Listening Spaces Safe listening spaces make it possible for someone to say what they've kept bottled up. Words spill out that often surprise the one saying them. To listen…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 20, 2020 The Tension of Differing Perspectives So as we seek deeper transformation in Jesus, may we learn to listen without fear to brothers and sisters who see things from a different perspective.
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Renovaré WeeklyAugust 21, 2020 The Power of Weakness People who know their weakness in this way can do powerful work with God. They are open to advice, slow to judge, and able to empathize. In short, they’re…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 12, 2020 Learning to Listen "If we really want to be a countercultural people,” Richard Foster remarked in his final talk given two years ago this week, “I suggest first of all…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeJon Bailey & Chad Lawson — Tech, Listening, and Felted Piano Strings
June 16, 2019
Jon Bailey knows technology can distract and harm. But his belief that it can also be used for good led him to co-create the Scripture listening app Dwell. Its… -
Podcast EpisodeJan Johnson — Quieting the Mental Committee to Hear God
July 30, 2017
"Contemplative prayer isn’t prayer in which we ask God to do things for us. It’s being with God and listening for God’s input whenever God may choose to…
Articles
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ArticleThe Tools in Your Listening Toolbox "Although listening is not a cure for everything, it is a cure for much more than we could ever have imagined," writes Spiritual Director Jeanie Hoover in this…
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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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ArticleSpeak Truth to Power Use words when necessary. Measuring our words with wisdom does not mean turning a blind eye to evil. Carolyn Arends shares a recent piece from Faith Today about "the quiet power of a…
