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March 3, 2023 Less Alone Than We Think There are a surprising number of Jesus followers who value humility of heart, who want to be with God more than talk about God like God isn’t in the room, who hold strong convictions with humility,…

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February 17, 2023 Discovering Lilias Trotter This doesn’t mean we abandon the gifts God gives us. Miriam Rockness noted that Lilias didn’t throw art away to immediately become a foreign missionary. After Ruskin’s offer, she remained in England…

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December 23, 2022 Don’t Skip to the Hard Part Trevor suggests, “Make a conscious effort today to rejoice in the good gifts that come your way—a warm cup of coffee, the friendly face of a loved one, the beauty of a sunrise or sunset.”

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November 18, 2022 ”I read it perhaps twelve times in those years.” One of our callings at Renovaré is to highlight the kind of writings that touch the heart, address the will, mold the mind, and instill holy habits…. Then to create spaces to read deeply alongside…

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November 11, 2022 A Circuitous Journey Humans like to explore. Even if one generation has a way of life that seems to be working fine, the next generation will try something new. What Chesterton does, and what I hope more Christians will…

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October 7, 2022 Learning to (Literally) Walk with God This week’s to-do list makes slowing down seem impossible, or at least irresponsible. Deep down I know it won’t all get done. But I lie to myself: if I can work with enough efficiency, the list will…

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September 30, 2022 The Beauty, Wisdom, and Power of Restraint And some of the most culturally transformative movements have been led by those, like Martin Luther King, Jr., who modeled costly restraint from anger and violence.c

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July 22, 2022 “No amount of performing for God touched the pain…” I’ve noticed that as I learn more about trauma and how the brain works, I have a tendency to lean upon my own understanding, to put my confidence in figuring things out. There is much to gain from…

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May 27, 2022 With Us In Our Suffering Whenever senseless tragedy tempts me to think of God as unsafe, irrational, even irresponsible—"Why create free-willed beings, Lord, when you knew this was the cost?"—there is one thing that keeps me…

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March 25, 2022 Practicing a Preference for God God is too good to be a vending machine for right answers. God is our Father and our friend who wants to grow our character and our love so we can be people who naturally want what God wants.

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February 25, 2022 “Words matter more than we imagine.” McEntyre believes words are more than just delivery boxes for ideas; the words themselves can be the idea. This means that when an older word like prudent or noble “falls into disuse, the experience…