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May 11, 2018 Feasting on God Fasting as the voluntary denial of normal functions for intense spiritual activity, extending beyond food to media and smartphones, serves as a key to the Kingdom and a way to make Sabbath real in…

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July 10, 2020 The Loving Gaze of God Every once in a while you come across someone who makes you want to love Jesus more. Someone who’s lived enough life to justify being jaded, but rather than jadedness there’s joy.

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September 13, 2024 Interruptible

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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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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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June 15, 2018 Seeing the Bible Afresh The Spiritual Disciplines, remember, are meant to bring us into that rhythm, not burden us with more to do. There are ways to practice disciplines—like study—that are destructive and ways that are…

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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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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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September 24, 2021 “I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians.” While Gandhi never chose to become a Christian, the Sermon on the Mount informed his life in ways that led to profound personal and cultural change—because he took Jesus seriously.

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October 30, 2020 Important or All-Important He wasn’t saying that form doesn’t matter. We should engage in vigorous conversations about what it looks like to gather as believers, especially in this strange pandemic age, and experiment with…

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April 6, 2018 Life Without Lack + New Interview with Richard Foster Richard Foster reminds us, "Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life. Of all the Spiritual Disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with…

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March 23, 2018 Savoring God + Richard Foster on Dallas Willard Balance is a core value for Renovaré. It's vital, for example, to engage with God both in the analytical and in the intuitive realm. This month we focus on meditation, a more intuitive practice.…