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The Many Landscapes of Worship Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 4 You are invited to remember the necessity of worship in season and out of season in this Richard Foster piece.

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Prayers From the Heart A collection of prayers arranged according to the three aspects of the human journey: looking inward to the heart, reaching upward toward God, and moving outward to help others.

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Real Community Community is at the heart of the Renovaré Institute experience. This excerpt from James Bryan Smith's The Good and Beautiful God captures the flavors of this sort of community—born in faith and…

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Tish Harrison Warren — Prayer in the Night If we cannot trust God to keep bad things from happening to us or to those we love, how do we trust God at all? Author and Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren wrestles with this question in her new…

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Spiritual Disciplines Index: Prayer We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. Prayer is "an interactive conversation with God about what we and God are thinking and doing together."…

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A Conversation with Teresa of Avila An Imaginary Dialogue to Get a Better Grasp on Interior Castle Renovaré Institute graduate Matt Filer draws us into an imaginative conversation between himself and St. Teresa of Avila on the subject of prayer. This dialogue, begun as an exercise to solidify…

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The Most Important Job In this pre-Pentecost (or anytime) piece, James Bryan Smith (and Dallas Willard) explain why praying for the success of other churches than one's own is important and powerful.

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Monica and Jeremy Chambers — Getting Personal with the Lord’s Prayer Monica and Jeremy Chambers join Nate to discuss ways of engaging with two transforming prayers for the Christian life: Psalm 23 and the Lord’s Prayer.

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The Foundation of All Other Virtues Marlena Graves introduces us to a short, powerful piece by Christian mystic, John of Ruysbroeck. Here he lays out the case for humility's being the foundation of every other virtue and Christ's being…

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The Grace in Discipleship Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 4 How does imagination help us translate the overall pattern of Jesus' life into our own lives? A vintage letter from Richard Foster explores living as disciples in the modern world.

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The Serenity Prayer A Simple Prayer to Enrich Your Life God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Countless people around the world have prayed this…

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Madame Guyon: Her Autobiography (condensed & modernized) Madame Jeanne-Marie Guyon was a Christian martyr and author of a respected book on prayer. This edited, condensed, and updated edition of her autobiography— written from a lonely cell where she was…