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March 16, 2018 Meditation + Ask Nathan & Richard Foster Your Question Meditating on Scripture need not be laborious or taxing. In fact, it can be restful, refreshing, and a genuine delight—"How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" (Ps…

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September 21, 2018 Freedom from the False Self Richard Foster says that in solitude "we are set free from the many 'false selves' we have built up in order to cope with the expectations others place upon us—and we place upon ourselves. Solitude…

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February 23, 2018 Screwtape, Self-hate, and True Submission Richard Foster distinguishes between self-contempt and true self-denial, showing how submission to God brings freedom rather than self-hatred.

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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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June 12, 2020 Link Correction: Learning to Listen "If we real­ly want to be a coun­ter­cul­tur­al peo­ple,” Richard Foster remarked in his final talk given two years ago this week, “I sug­gest first of all that we sim­ply ‘shut up and lis­ten.’ We…

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June 12, 2020 Learning to Listen "If we real­ly want to be a coun­ter­cul­tur­al peo­ple,” Richard Foster remarked in his final talk given two years ago this week, “I sug­gest first of all that we sim­ply ‘shut up and lis­ten.’ We…

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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 26, 2024 Receiving Life in the Scripture

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September 20, 2019 Redeemed Pain And then, if healing delays, we choose to be present without platitudes or presumption to those who are in pain, as Richard Foster encourages. And though these words are probably best unspoken to the…

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August 3, 2018 The Birds, Our Schoolmasters We conclude our month on Simplicity with a podcast with someone who is truly living it out. And classic pieces from Martin Luther and Richard Foster, who both pull from Matthew 6 to help us learn…

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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 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.