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July 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 holy space with God into the hustle and…

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May 24, 2019 Conversion and Transformative Community One area the Evangelical Tradition emphasizes is conversion—something that’s typically thought of as a one-time event. But Carolyn Arends, joining the voice of E. Stanley Jones many years before,…

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April 1, 2022 The Danger of the Disciplines But there is a way to engage in spiritual practices that is free from performance, free from striving, and yes—from our first day yoked to Jesus—easy and light.

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October 14, 2022 What Jesus Didn’t Do The world right now is in desperate need of people who can discern what is true from what is half-true, what is major from what is minor, what is primary from what is secondary. It needs people who…

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July 20, 2018 Singleness of Mind Christian Simplicity, our focus this month, isn’t renouncing wealth or technology. It is singleness of mind on Jesus Christ. “It means,” says Richard Foster in Freedom of Simplicity, “being cognizant…

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July 29, 2022 Finding God’s Grace When Rhythms Unravel As James Catford says on the podcast, our significance must come from the acceptance of God—acceptance we didn’t earn and therefore cannot lose.

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July 12, 2019 Becoming ​“Beautiful of Soul” In fact, the aim of the Christian contemplative is precisely to stay connected to the life that is real. “I have set the Lord always before me,” says David in Psalm 16. It is that awareness of God’s…

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August 10, 2019 Holiness Is Not Holier-Than-Thou The world aches for human beings who embody true holiness—whole and well-functioning people who have “the ability to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.”

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September 6, 2019 What About Charismania? But what about "charismania"? There is certainly some strange stuff out there that, as a friend says, “ain’t the Lord.” Fabrications and abuses can be formidable obstacles to thoughtful people…

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May 10, 2019 Post-Denominational? In the book Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster outlines six great Traditions, or streams, flowing throughout Church history. Christ perfectly embodies all of them. (Our content focus for the…

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August 24, 2018 Is Spiritual Formation a Fad? So what is spiritual formation and why isn't it a fad? Dallas Willard puts it plainly: "It is the process through which those who love and trust Jesus Christ effectively take on His character." And…

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May 25, 2018 Becoming Dallas Willard Dallas Willard gets mentioned a lot around here. With good reason—it's just not often you come across "a person with the rare combination of exceptional brilliance and unadulterated goodness," as…