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Holy Hunger Fasting from food or media can open the way for healing Chris Hall encourages us to unplug in the most literal sense and fast in small ways from media. How might your mind and spirit be transformed by abstaining from the distractions of the digital age?

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Sayings of The Desert Fathers Sayings of the Early Christian Monks Organized around key themes—Charity, Fortitude, Lust, Patience, Prayer, Self-control, and Visions—this edition of the Sayings is fresh, accessible, and authoritative.

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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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The Grace of Giving ​Looking at one of the most practical ways to experience the "blessing of blessing," Richard Foster prescribes a "lavish and joyful giving" as the antidote to low spiritual vitality, dusty words, and…

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Less is More A Lenten Guide for Personal Renewal Each week during Lent, this devotional helps you explore one of the classic spiritual disciplines. Our hope is that this daily immersion in the Life with God through these disciplines becomes a…

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Mom Seeks God Practicing Grace in the Chaos Motherhood and practicing the spiritual disciplines

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Abuse, Anger & Healing Prayer Included in Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 1 "The Lord told me that he would pro­vide me with the grace to for­give my father." Donn Thomas shares how God healed him of hurt and anger.

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A People, Transforming Excerpt from Worth Celebrating Mimi Dixon writes about the swelling influence of Celebration of Discipline: “Individuals from every race and nation and tongue and stratum of society were joining hearts and hands and minds and…

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The Death and the Dance Kai Nilsen explains that Lenten practice is on the rise in a variety of denominations that are “awakening to the beauty of ritual and the recurring rhythms of the church that embed the life of God…