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An Everyday Experiment in Hearing God Found in archives dated shortly after the publication of Celebration of Discipline, these honest journal entries from Richard Foster provide a helpful window into a daily experiment​ with listening…

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Make 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 humbly’ with Him.” Will the words we…

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The Lord’s Prayer as a Transformative Pattern Paul Anderson joins us to share some ideas for the importance of regular daily prayer for spiritual transformation and offers some practices for modeling a morning prayer after the Lord's Prayer.

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What Do We Mean by Prayer? Evelyn Underhill explains how our three faculties—thinking, feeling, and willing to act— lead us into heartfelt prayer.

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Pursuing Holy Obedience From his enduring classic, A Testament of Devotion, Thomas Kelly offers four steps or guidelines to help us "commit our lives in unreserved obedience to Him."

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Audio Meditation: The Present Moment In this audio meditation, Nathan Foster weaves together a selection of beautiful and challenging sayings by 17th-century spiritual director, Jean Pierre de Caussade that invite us to embrace God’s…

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The Way of the Beatitudes Selected excerpts from Pope Francis's final Good Friday meditation articulate the “way of the Beatitudes.”

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Salvation as a Life Salvation Is Not Just for Heaven — It Is a New Order of Life Now Richard Foster writes, “The goal of salvation is not to get us into heaven. Properly understood, heaven is not a goal at all, but a destination." Salvation is not only for life yet to come, but for…

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Practicing Shalom in Our Time In this personal reflection, pastor and Renovaré Ministry Team member Juanita Rasmus shares about the disciplines that help her to be a vessel of God's shalom in broken world.

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Getting Our Eyes Ready to See from Watch and Wonder: Birding as a Spiritual Practice 

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Free from the Darkness Nathan Foster shares how he came to know the power of forgiveness through the discipline of confession.

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A Life Lived Upward Toward God With pastoral wisdom and care, Eugene Peterson explains how the "Songs of Ascents" sung by ancient Hebrews can help us hone a pilgrim mindset as we stay the course of discipleship.