Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 20, 2026 Practicing the Presence of the Old Self We want to be good people. Time and again we fail, then feel bad for failing. Things change when we shift our focus from our shortcomings and how to fix them…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 8, 2024 God Lets Us Have Our Way God lets us—each of us and all of us—have our way. God’s way is better. But on earth his authority is available, not forced. In order for “thy kingdom come,…
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Renovaré WeeklyDecember 10, 2021 Benevolent Detachment We see benevolent detachment in the life of Jesus. He wasn’t paralyzed by the pain of everyone on the planet, even though he knew he wouldn’t immediately take…
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Renovaré WeeklyDecember 4, 2020 Let Every Heart… Laying down our will is serious, to be sure, but it’s also seriously joyful. The invitation of Jesus isn’t to lay down heavy burdens for heavier ones, or to…
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 7, 2020 Self-Denial Without Self-Hatred But the self-denial of which Jesus spoke is borne of love—love of God, love of others, and love, in the healthiest sense, of self. It is saying no to needing…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeJill Weber — Cultivating Spaces Where Jesus Is Loved
July 26, 2021
Jill Weber is a prayer missionary and author who for the last five years has been establishing a new monastic community at the Waverley Abbey Estate in the… -
Podcast EpisodeJill Weber — Holy Disruption
June 29, 2020
The joy of surrendering to Jesus is evident in Jill Weber's voice. Her "yes" to God took her on an unexpected journey—including helping found the Greater…
Articles
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ArticleSimple Abandonment to the Will of God Jean-Pierre de Caussade's questions and careful reasoning help us recognize that there is no other way than the will of God that will satisfy our deepest…
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ArticleTo Will One Thing Søren Kierkegaard's prayers and the accompanying exercises from Devotional Classics help us learn to seek God's agenda ahead of our own.
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ArticleLive Day by Day God will give us everything we need. A truth so easy to state and sometimes so hard to live. Brian Morykon shares some advice and insight from François Fénelon…
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ArticleRolling as a Mighty Ocean Zane Creamer offers us a personal account of fighting both for and against life. She reflects upon the "power, vastness, and mysterious depths" of the ocean…
