Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 17, 2023 Discovering Lilias Trotter This doesn’t mean we abandon the gifts God gives us. Miriam Rockness noted that Lilias didn’t throw art away to immediately become a foreign missionary. After…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 28, 2022 Disillusioned with Cross-Cultural Missions The message of Jesus, rightly delivered, doesn’t strip people of the dignity of their native heritage; it enhances that dignity with a new citizenship in the…
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 14, 2020 No Time For That While our exterior lives may be worlds apart, our interior needs are the same. We are all God’s image-bearers. We all have soul-chasms only God can fill. We…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 1, 2019 Meeting Jesus in the Marginalized Once a week Lacy Borgo meets with children in spiritual direction at Haven House, a transitional facility for homeless families. If you commended her for this,…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 9, 2018 The Antidote for Rejection Through the cross of Christ we experience, as Richard Foster writes, "both forgiveness and healing for the sins and sorrows of the past." Should our conscience…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 2, 2018 You Can’t Love Everyone Peter weighs in with confirmation, "Honor everyone. Love the family of believers..." (1 Pet 2:17). Honor means assigning value. Thinking of and treating…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 26, 2018 A Long Farewell In a piece Chris Hall wrote after the 2016 passing of his dear friend Tom Oden, he recalls the words of Thomas Lynch: "Grief is the tax we pay for loving." We…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 20, 2018 Self-righteous Service Versus True Service One of the things that we need to learn to do better is to bring others alongside as we serve, so they can learn with us, and then experience the freedom of…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 13, 2018 At Your Service It's good and right to schedule intentional times of service, especially hidden ones. But let's pair those pre-planned acts with the daily prayer, "Lord, bring…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeSarah Bowling — Heartbreaking EuphoriaOctober 29, 2018
"There's a lot of times people romanticize service work. It's not like that...It breaks my heart… it unravels me…" Sarah Bowling, founder of humanitarian… -
Podcast EpisodeJames Catford — Becoming a ServantOctober 15, 2018
At a 2018 Renovaré Pastoral Leadership Conference, workshops were given on spiritual disciplines. Directed at pastors but applicable to all, James Catford,…
Articles
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ArticleLilias Trotter: A Legacy of Complete Abandonment to God To see Lilias "was to catch a glimpse of ‘that sweet-smiling Jesus.'” Mimi Dixon holds up the life of Lilias Trotter as a model of joyful, Christlike obedience.
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ArticleWhat to Do When Serving God Becomes a Burden We're "blessed to be a blessing." But, what if you're at the end of your blessing rope, so to speak, and feel you have nothing left to give? This classic piece…
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ArticleHow to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself Based on workshop notes, these thoughts from Dallas Willard explain how our closest relationships are the primary classroom for learning to love well. As we…
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ArticleThe Peculiar Prerequisite for Spiritual Direction Being Broken Can Lead to Holy Openness In his spiritual direction work at prisons, Josh Banner sees Jesus in the inmates because they are "broken, open, humble, and willing"—qualities we all need to…
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ArticleThe Vow of Service in the Family This excerpt from Richard Foster's The Challenge of the Disciplined Life reveals how to live out the Ministry of Power, particularly in family life, through…
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ArticleEncounters with Silence In this piece, Karl Rahner asks, "How can I redeem this wretched humdrum? How can I turn myself toward the one thing necessary, toward You? How can I escape…
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ArticleIs It So Terrible to be Useful? Drawing on a scene from "The Last Emperor," Richard Foster helps us shift our thinking from feeling used to becoming useful.
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ArticleSelf-Righteous Service Versus True Service Richard Foster invites us to discern between self-righteous service and true service, the kind that "can serve enemies as freely as friends."
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ArticleService: A Practical Guide From Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, Adele Calhoun shares about the spiritual discipline of service and the practical ways to enter into it.
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ArticleUnderstanding Service "Of all the spiritual disciplines, service is the most conducive to the growth of the grace of humility within us." Richard Foster explains why in this…
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ArticleYou Are Important, and We Love You An Ode to Cake How did cake become the nearly universal dessert of celebration and consolation? How do people speak love through baking and sharing cake? What was Francis of…
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ArticleSpiritual Disciplines Index: Service We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Scripture speaks often on service—that is, loving, thoughtful, active…
