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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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February 2, 2024 The Unfortunate Prerequisite for Resurrection His invitations continue. We follow him further into practices, insights… encounter. Slowly, sometimes imperceptibly—like the thaw of a thick-frozen stream—the grace and goodness of God changes us.

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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 11, 2022 The Prayer of Suffering “Our question,” Richard Foster writes, “is not ‘Why is there suffering in the world?’ but ​‘How do I enter into the suffering that is in the world in a way that is redemptive and healing?’ We must…

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September 17, 2021 The Letter Some of the richest, most enduring spiritual writing has come in the form of letters.It's worth pondering that the letter is the primary form of writing in the New Testament—out of its 27 books, 21…

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June 17, 2022 Active Waiting God’s instruction to wait isn't to test us or because God isn't ready to give us good things. God is eternally ready to bless. The waiting is for our sake: to grow the fruit of patience, to still our…

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July 9, 2019 Summer 2019 Update When seasons change, you wonder if things will ever be the way they used to be. They won't, of course. One never steps in the same river twice. But thankfully the new river can be as refreshing as…

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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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March 7, 2025 A Light Step and a Sorrow-Soft Heart What would Richard Foster say to leaders of the modern spiritual formation movement?

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November 9, 2018 The Antidote for Rejection Through the cross of Christ we experience, as Richard Foster writes, "both forgiveness and healing for the sins and sorrows of the past." Should our conscience not be quieted in private confession,…

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July 13, 2018 Abundant Simplicity True simplicity is about seeking first the Kingdom of God and rightly ordered desires, not just minimalism or hoarding, as Richard Foster reminds us to avoid soul-killing legalisms.

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April 27, 2018 We Never Outgrow Asking Petition isn't a lower form of prayer than adoration or contemplation—it is our staple diet, as Richard Foster reminds us this week in an excerpt from Prayer. Often our asking is on behalf of another…