Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 17, 2025 Benefit of the doubt Jesus embodied a present life. His parting words were Behold, I will be with you always. With us in joy, with us in sorrow. The invitation is there: to be with…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 4, 2024 Aching for Resurrection I’m digging out—along with many in the southeast—from Hurricane Helene’s devastation. For us there was only minor property damage. Others experienced…
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 19, 2021 The World Is a Perfectly Safe Place? While the disciples were "mini-faiths" at this early stage in their journey with Jesus, I have no doubt that ten years later in the same boat they’d be singing…
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Renovaré WeeklyJanuary 29, 2021 The Question We Avoid If we cannot trust God to keep bad things from happening to us or to those we love, how do we trust God at all?
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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 WeeklyMarch 6, 2020 The Most Important Thing About You Becky Willard Heatley commented that a life without lack mindset requires that “you understand how much God loves you, how God wants the best for you, that he…
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Renovaré WeeklyAugust 3, 2018 The Birds, Our Schoolmasters We conclude our month on Simplicity with a podcast with someone who is truly living it out. And classic pieces from Martin Luther and Richard Foster, who both…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeJames Catford — The Present MomentFebruary 24, 2025
James Catford joins Nathan to talk about book 4 in this year's Renovaré Book Club — Jean-Pierre de Caussade's 18th century classic book on trust, _Abandonment… -
Podcast EpisodeAudio Retreat: Meditation on Patient TrustJanuary 17, 2025
Today’s podcast is a 13-minute meditation — an audio retreat — on a prayer by the French priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Put on some headphones, find a… -
Podcast EpisodeWinn Collier — Hope that Won’t DisappointOctober 4, 2024
Winn Collier, director of the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination, talks with Nathan about hardships that shatter false hopes and the one reality…
Articles
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ArticleSummer’s Exodus "In the letting go, the unclenching of hands, there is freedom." With tender honesty, Melanie Gillgrist shares spiritual lessons from a summer of rest and the…
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ArticleUnexpected Lessons from the Pilgrim Trail Reflecting on his recent pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, Renovaré president Ted Harro sees God's grace at work in the humbling reminders of human…
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ArticleHow We Pray for Daily Bread Trusting God fully means learning to ask for our bread, day by day. To those of us who live in a world of efficient farming, industrial bakeries, and…
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ArticleWalking By Faith Renovaré published an Advent devotional in 2013 filled with thoughtful pieces by some of our dearest friends. One of these is most certainly Mimi Dixon, who…
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ArticleLearning to Pray Again “Knowing about prayer is not enough,” writes Emilie Griffin. “We need to give ourselves to prayer.” In this excerpt, Emilie writes about the way that a healthy…
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ArticleAvailability and Vulnerability How are the shared vows of “availability” and “vulnerability” an outgrowth of Celtic Christianity, and why are they important for a monastic community? Here we…
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ArticleOnly By Prayer and Faith In thinking of how to ask for our daily bread, may we be inspired anew by George Müller and his orphanage in Bristol, England. Never asking a single person for…
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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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ArticleHeart to Heart November 1997 A November 1997 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about his 30th anniversary trip to Kentucky and New Mexico, Joseph and the Virtue of…
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ArticleThe Smallest Act Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 3 In recent days I have been repeatedly drawn to the powerful poem/prayer of John Henry Newman, that great intellectual of the nineteenth century and a leader in…
