Books
Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 1, 2024 Trust Fall To riff on a Lewis quote, aim for life with Jesus and you’ll get transformation thrown in: aim for transformation and you’ll get neither.
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 2, 2024 The Unfortunate Prerequisite for Resurrection His invitations continue. We follow him further into practices, insights… encounter. Slowly, sometimes imperceptibly—like the thaw of a thick-frozen stream—the…
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 19, 2024 Consolation But this is how Jesus works. He wants to get to the root of the matter and give a peace that endures, not a temporary fix. Sometimes that’s not what we want.
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 29, 2023 As Jesus Would If He Were You That last idea, living your life as Jesus would if he were you, is one I’ve heard to the point of overfamiliarity. But it revolutionized the way I think about…
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Renovaré WeeklyJuly 28, 2023 From the Inside Out: A New Free Renovaré Course Today Renovaré is releasing a new online course called From the Inside Out: Discovering a Deeper, More Transformative Life with God.
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 6, 2023 Should We Measure Spiritual Growth? In the end, this is how the spiritual life is measured... Do I love and enjoy God? Am I easy in myself? Have I learned to love others?
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Renovaré WeeklyAugust 26, 2022 Pilgrimage Followers of Jesus are disciples and pilgrims, Eugene Peterson reminds us. In one sense, our whole life is a pilgrimage of slowly making our way home to God.…
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Renovaré WeeklyAugust 19, 2022 If Jesus Literally Lived at Your Church “Imagine someone has been attending church for 20 years and one day they say to themselves: I come every Sunday year after year but I haven’t changed. I want…
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Renovaré WeeklyDecember 3, 2021 Fresh Epiphany When the story of God becoming human comes on like a light bulb in our minds it illuminates everything. Epiphany! It is the assurance our hearts have been…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 22, 2021 Aging Faithfully In the West, gone are the days—if they ever existed—when age represented wisdom and elders were respected as repositories of knowledge. Now Google is our…
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 10, 2021 The Iceberg On a societal level, there are political and racial hostilities that erupt into angry speech and violent action. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Holy…
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 30, 2021 Exactly What Is Spiritual Formation? “I want to ask a very elementary question because I’m not certain of the answer,” one podcast listener asked. “Exactly what is spiritual formation? Can you…
Articles
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ArticleIn Transformation "It is good to see the commonplace illumined and the glory of the common people revealed," writes Vernon Johns in this excerpt from “Transfigured Moments,” the…
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ArticleGoodness from the Depths of Our Beings Some selections from the first two chapters of Renovation of the Heart describe the various dimensions of the human self and explain how God’s loving…
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ArticleA New Reformation Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 3 A reformation of the heart, Richard Foster writes, "centers on the work of spiritual formation, that is, the formation of the human spirit by the Spirit of…
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ArticleHow We Order our Hearts How can we rightly order our hearts to love well what is worthy of love? And can we do this in a way that opens the door to spiritual transformation, rather…
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ArticleLearning To Trust The Slow Work Of God Time is a Necessary Mercy In Becoming Like Jesus Carolyn Arends reminds us that spiritual formation is a slow process by design. "Let’s not mistake God’s patience for inactivity."
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ArticleOur “Holy” Sins Daring to Face What We Tend to Ignore Can believers be blind to certain sins? Carolyn Arends takes a look at the subtle slips from right-relationship that keep us from loving as God loves.
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ArticleThe Power of Posture The Delight of Walking Upright What does it mean to be "upright" in our ways, our hearts, our walk? Brian Morykon looks at what research on the posture of our body can teach us about the…
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ArticleThere is More to Life than Guilt In this excerpt from the article "Rethinking Evangelism," Dallas Willard gives fresh insights and thoughtful takes on many terms and phrases from the…
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ArticleHope for the American Church An open letter from guest writer Joshua Banner We share a letter from Joshua Banner where he describes his growing conviction to stand against racism and "the industrial prison system," how spiritual…
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ArticleOn Grace, Transformation, and Holding Our Tongues In this short excerpt from an interview, Dallas Willard explains how "saved by grace" can be misunderstood to mean "no participation or change necessary." And,…
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ArticleDeep-Rooted in Christ: A Conversation Between Richard Foster and Chris Webb Listen in on a conversation between Richard Foster and Chris Webb as they discuss Joshua Choonmin Kang's book *Deep-Rooted in Christ: The Way of…
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ArticleComing In Out of the Wind A classic excerpt from C.S. Lewis on the transformational imperative of true discipleship. That which is below the surface—our minds and spirits— must be…
