Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 22, 2023 A More Expansive Gospel It wasn’t that my childhood picture of the gospel was wrong. It was simply small and incomplete. My soul longed for a more expansive gospel, which it turns out…
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Renovaré WeeklyJuly 21, 2023 From Loneliness to Solitude Solitude is a practice, but it's more than that. Richard Foster contends that "it's a state of mind and heart.” We practice solitude so that we can carry that…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 26, 2023 God Wishes to Be Enjoyed Jesus’ desire for humans to do what he says is utterly pure—untainted by greed, lack, manipulation, or insecurity. When Jesus wants us to be with him and obey…
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 21, 2023 Finding Atmospheres for Stepping Into God’s Invitations We can meet with God anywhere. But when we hear him say “come away with me,” we know that something special is in store.
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 10, 2023 Attachment to God There is value in soul-nourishing content. It’s a good starting point for life with God. That’s why we send this newsletter every week. But attachment to God…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 3, 2022 Down in the Same Center Sometimes this word is used in non-Christian contexts as a sort of mystical alignment with ourselves or “the universe.” But here I mean it in the sense of…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 21, 2021 A Perpetual Blessing There isn’t space here to go into it—and I’m not sure I have the words anyway—but there is a real sense in which our souls can gaze at Jesus and know in our…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 13, 2020 Come, Then Stay There is no formula, of course, for experiencing God’s presence; God does what God wants. But we know that one thing God always wants is to be in communion…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 26, 2020 Eye-Openers It’s easy in the spiritual life to slip into a myopic focus on one's own individual journey with God. Then a book, a film, or, most powerfully, a conversation…
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 13, 2020 The Whisper Right now the coronavirus is on many of our minds. In a loud voice, the news breaks upon us minute by minute and with it fear crouches at our door. Wisdom and…
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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 WeeklyFebruary 28, 2020 When the Center Is Clear… Instead, he stressed the ongoing, relational dialectic of encountering God’s will, often against our will, and, in Christ, receiving the freedom to act…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeKatie Davis Majors — Safe All Along
March 31, 2023
Katie Davis Majors shares her story of formation through suffering and explains the message of her book, Safe All Along. -
Podcast EpisodeJean Nevills — Aware and Awake
December 15, 2019
"We invite the one who loves us into our awareness... and the Spirit at the same time is inviting us to be aware and be awake." Writer and spiritual director… -
Podcast EpisodeTish Harrison Warren — Liturgy of the Ordinary
February 27, 2017
Nathan talks with author and Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren about her book Liturgy of the Ordinary. Tish helps us see not simply that ordinary life… -
Podcast EpisodeTrevor Hudson — Friendship with GodSeptember 11, 2016
Trevor Hudson is an author and speaker who teaches at the Renovaré Institute and internationally on spiritual formation. He joins Nathan to talk about life in…
Articles
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ArticleReal Saints Frederick Buechner reflects on the eclectic parade of saints that have danced the path of Christendom throughout the ages and continue to inspire and instruct…
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ArticleI See a People At the end of Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster shares this powerful vision for the people of God, even if it is one still seen through a glass dimly.
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ArticleAuthentically Holy The more we become like Jesus, the more we become ourselves In too-constantly revisiting our brokenness, are we clouding the promise of spiritual renovation and restoration? Carolyn Arends asks us to consider how…
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ArticleSpiritual Disciplines Index: The With-God Life These Scripture passages compiled by Dallas Willard for the Life With God Bible reveal a God who does not redeem people from far away. God is up close and…
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ArticleReading the Bible with the Mind and the Heart "God not only originated the Bible through human authorship; he remains with it always. It is God's book. No one owns it but God himself. It is the loving…
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ArticleThe Renewable Energy of Fruitful Work Can work actually increase our energy in the midst of our busyness? Author Kai Nilsen explores fruitful work in this excerpt from his book, *Renew Your Life:…
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ArticleMake Me an Instrument of Thy Peace In the Foreword to his book, The Inward Journey, Dr. Howard Thurman writes of the choice before those who seek "'to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk…
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ArticlePractice Staying in God’s Presence Dealing with Temptation François Fénelon reminds us that most of the struggles we face in the with-God life are not giant sins, but rather the seemingly inconsequential offenses that…
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ArticleLive Life to the Full Dallas Willard helps us understand the synergy between God’s transforming grace and our active cooperation: “You have never seen people more active than those…
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ArticleA Deeper Level of Prayer Guyon and Prayer "We may know that we should pray, or we may know what to pray for, but when it comes to how we pray, we may be at a loss." From her classic work _Experiencing…
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ArticleMorning Prayers There is no better way to learn about prayer than by praying, and the beautifully crafted prayers of John Baillie are a wonderful springboard into prayer.
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ArticlePractical Ways to Live All of Life With God Practicing the Incarnational Tradition In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster provides very practical ways to live all of life—everyday home and family and work life—with God.
