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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…

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May 4, 2018 God as my glasses Frank Laubach's practice of using God as his glasses to see people through God's love, combined with Richard Foster's insights on prayer as a living relationship, offers a transformative approach to…

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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…

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April 13, 2018 Experiments in Prayer Perhaps you'll consider trying a prayer experiment. Ask God for something specific—anything that is good—and wait and watch for God's specific answer.

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February 9, 2018 Freedom from Needing My Own Way Spiritual disciplines aren’t the point—God is. As we celebrate Celebration of Discipline’s 40th anniversary, we begin with Submission, learning the joy of surrendering to God’s will.

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November 19, 2021 The Quiet Power of a Transformed Life But when strong convictions are lived out with true humility, when Spirit-empowered love rather than idealism is in the driver’s seat, look out. You're dealing with real spiritual power that has the…

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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 18, 2021 How Beautiful It Is When… The Ministry Team has modeled to me healthy ecumenism. Its members have shown me how to listen to other perspectives, how to come together even if there are secondary matters of disagreement, and…

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December 6, 2019 Deeper In It’s in everyday life, Catford says, “that the Bible really crackles with energy. Its primary function is our formation and the formation of the communities we inhabit. And, if only we will ask them,…

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August 16, 2019 Habit and Grace As a recovering self-fixer, I’m on the guard against what Paul in Colossians 2:23 calls “will-worship”—self-made religion and ascetic practices that have an appearance of holy habit but in the end…

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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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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…