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Holy Joy Francis and the First Nativity Scene “I commend Francis of Assisi to you as a model of charismatic jubilee,” writes Richard Foster in Streams of Living Water. In this excerpt, Foster tells the heart-warming story of St. Francis…

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Bible and Borderlands: Journeying Deeper Into the Kingdom "There’s a vast number of Christians," says Renovaré Board Chair-elect James Catford, "who live their entire lives on the border of the Kingdom.​​" In this essay, James helps us see the Bible as a…

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Celebrate! At Christmastime, we find it fun to pull out some thoughts on the spiritual discipline of celebration from Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline. ​With a nod to all things un-Scrooge from Nephew…

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Sitting with Suffering How do we address the suffering of others? What can we say or do to alleviate their pain? Richard Foster offers some wise words on the spiritual practice of presence that will help fill their…

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The Invisible Nature of the Spiritual Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 3 Richard Foster explains that spiritual reality is hidden from us "until we want to see it . . . want to see it with all our hearts . . . long for it like the deer longing for flowing streams (Ps.…

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Submitting is an Act of Choice "Giving up getting our own way” is Lacy Borgo's child-friendly definition of submission. And for this discipline to be healthy, that "giving up" has to be an act of choice.

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The Sermon on the Mount Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 4 "​Genuine Christian renewal will always carry in its wake a richer and deeper understanding of Scripture," Richard Foster reminds us. "And when we consider the renewal movement of discipleship to…

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Richard Foster — Streams Overview + The Word-Centered Life (Evangelical Tradition) To begin a series on of the six major Christian traditions, or streams, outlined in the book Streams of Living Water, Nathan Foster talks with his father Richard Foster about one of the most…

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Following Selections from Following the Call on the Sermon on the Mount The selections in this booklet—a subset from Following the Call, edited by Charles E. Moore—were chosen by Richard Foster to help provide a taste of the wealth of literature written on this most…

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Why Pray If God Already Knows? With help from the church fathers and mothers, Chris Hall considers what communication is like with the God whose knowledge is inseparable from his love.

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Our ​“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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A 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 God."