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The Wonderful Freedom of Fasting “Fasting: Twentieth Century Style” In this transcript from an address given to Southern Baptists in 1983, Richard Foster looks at the meaning and many forms of fasting and the challenges and blessings of each.

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Defining The Contemplative Tradition: The Prayer-Filled Life "The two most common words used to describe the contemplative way of life are fire and love. Purging, purifying fire. Enveloping, comforting love." In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water,…

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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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Heart to Heart May 2006 Creating Communities That Focus on Life-Long Discipleship In this May 2006 pastoral letter to the Renovaré community, Richard Foster lays out the characteristics and principles of spiritual formation based congregations, and puts practical skin on them with…

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Vision, Idea, and Message Perspectives Newsletter, Vol. 9 No. 2 What is Renovaré, exactly? And what does it mean to “train in righteousness?” In this vintage piece, Richard Foster offers some sturdy—and inspiring—definitions.

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The Prayer of Suffering Richard Foster invites us to "voluntarily take into ourselves the griefs and sorrows of others in order to set them free" in this chapter from his book Prayer.

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Why Lent? The forty day journey of Lent is marked in days but lived in grace. Kai Nilsen, one of the authors of the Renovaré devotional Less is More, leads us into this season of preparation.

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What is True Devotion? In the opening chapter to his work, Introduction to the Devout Life, Francis de Sales explores the nature of true devotion. He believes that "devotion is simply a spiritual activity and liveliness…

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Answering the Crisis in Spirituality Heart to Heart November 1994 In this letter from the Renovaré archives, Richard Foster addresses the explosion of counterfeit spiritualities in our time, explaining that “a vital spirituality” can only be found in embracing…

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Loving One Another As "those whom God has joined," followers of Christ must love one another and beware of attitudes that breed disunity. These and other exhortations from John Wesley teach us about the loving bonds…

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Fasting Unto God Fasting, like all spiritual disciplines, must be initiated and led by the Spirit. Arthur Wallis counsels readers to fast only in response to the Divine invitation, shifting our focus from the…

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Understanding Fasting "Fasting is the voluntary denial of an otherwise normal function for the sake of intense spiritual activity." Richard Foster explains the what and why of this month's focus discipline.