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Sabbath, Streams at Church, and What God’s doing in the American Church James and Tiana take on listener questions about how to practice sabbath and how to explore the Streams of Christian tradition as a church, and guest contributor Ted Harro joins the cast for an…

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The Availability of the Spirit "The Holy Spirit is already present to us, but often as a stranger, or at most a distant friend," writes Chris Webb. But we are invited to know God at a deeper level. We simply need to ask.

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The Rich Mullins Book Bootcamp Carolyn Arends welcomes us to a new year of the Renovaré book club by reflecting on her friendship with Rich Mullins, who turned his favorite books into a rite of passage for his touring companions.

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God’s Crash School Finding Empty is the First Step to Being Filled In Christ "Hitting my own bottom of depression," writes Juanita Rasmus, "has enabled me to come to an amazing awareness: I had been sourcing my life from an illusion." That awareness led her to find the source…

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To Be Human Is To Pray Finding Ways and Places to Speak the Soul’s Native Language From his book How to Pray, Pete Greig helps us find ways and places to "speak the soul's native language" of prayer.

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Holiness: More Than Avoiding Vice Defining holiness by external measures leads to legalism. Richella Parham helps us move beyond avoiding vice and into building a life of virtue.

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Light Enough to Live By What Does It Look Like to Incarnate the Light of Christ? "We are incarnating vessels," says Jean Nevills. "It isn’t if we will incarnate but what." In her parents, married over seventy years, Jean gives us an example of what it looks like to incarnate…

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Bible and Borderlands: Journeying Deeper Into the Kingdom "There’s a vast number of Christians," says Renovaré Board Chair-elect James Catford, "who live their entire lives on the border of the Kingdom.​​" In this essay, James helps us see the Bible as a…

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Becoming Like Jesus: Spirit-Filled Life "We must not let the Charismatic Stream be defined by the abuses committed in its name." Author and Anglican priest Chris Webb shares an honest and balanced view of life empowered by the Holy Spirit.

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Our ​“Holy” Sins Daring to Face What We Tend to Ignore Can believers be blind to certain sins? Carolyn Arends takes a look at the subtle slips from right-relationship that keep us from loving as God loves.

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Why Pray If God Already Knows? With help from the church fathers and mothers, Chris Hall considers what communication is like with the God whose knowledge is inseparable from his love.