Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 17, 2022 Active Waiting God’s instruction to wait isn't to test us or because God isn't ready to give us good things. God is eternally ready to bless. The waiting is for our sake: to…
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Renovaré WeeklyDecember 11, 2020 Why God Delays When we wait for something good and it is delayed for whatever reason, one thing is clear: if we offer our waiting to God, if we accept our current state…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodePatty Kirk — The Gospel of ChristmasDecember 10, 2017
Advent means "the coming." In this episode Patty Kirk, writer in residence and associate professor of English at John Brown University, reminds us that Advent… -
Podcast EpisodeRichella Parham — The Liturgy of WaitingDecember 3, 2017
In this Advent season of expectation, Renovaré Ministry team member and author Richella Parham joins Nathan again to talk about what she calls the liturgy of…
Articles
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ArticleThe Gifts of the Wilderness Longing, emptiness, and waiting can stretch and grow our souls—and prepare space for God to do some of his most holy work.
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ArticleLiving at the Speed of Jesus Katelyn Dixon disarms "false visions of the good life" with the beautiful life of Jesus—a Spirit-paced life of obedience and attentiveness.
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ArticleWait How do we wait for someone who has already come? Trevor Hudson joins us today to confront this puzzle of Advent: what does it mean to wait for the Christ who…
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ArticleA South Pole Advent Part I of “The Longing Season” Sometimes in this Advent season of busyness and bustle, we can find ourselves surprised by a sort of emptiness in our response to it all. For anyone feeling a…
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ArticleAdvent: Learning to Wait In a time of year that too often rushes headlong toward Christmas Day, Richella Parham reminds us about the courage we need to wait upon the Lord—a courage we…
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ArticleLean Toward Love Françios Fénelon explains how staying engaged in the Divine conversation, even when we don't feel like it, forms stability in our relationship with God.
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ArticleThey Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait Like bookends on a life lived in holy submission to God, the two poems we share from John Milton reflect crises of faith and the gaining of grace enough to…
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ArticleReady, Set … Wait? Receiving the ongoing guidance and power of the Holy Spirit requires regular times of prayer and study, worship and silence. Richard Foster explains how…
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ArticleWaiting on the Lord Involves … Waiting Perspectives Newsletter, Vol. 13 No. 2 If it seems as though we post a lot about waiting here at Renovaré, that's because it is a discipline that resonates with us—and we think with the world at…
