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An Invitation to Openness and Honesty “​​Prayer is a principal means of healing and reshaping our character into the image of Christ.” Chris Hall shares a few ancient Christian perspectives on transforming our inner thoughts and…

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Robyn Wrigley-Carr — Evelyn Underhill’s Spiritual Formation Robyn Wrigley-Carr returns to the Renovaré Podcast to talk with Nate about Evelyn Underhill—the 20th century author, spiritual director and retreat leader—and about Baron Friedrich Von Hügel, whose…

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Ready, Set … Wait? Receiving the ongoing guidance and power of the Holy Spirit requires regular times of prayer and study, worship and silence. Richard Foster explains how Christian people today need our own version of…

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Doors Into Prayer An Invitation Emilie discusses universal issues involved in the life of prayer—for example, the relentless human hunger for prayer, the seeming elusiveness of God—then invites us to mend the ragged edges of our…

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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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Learning to Pray Again “Knowing about prayer is not enough,” writes Emilie Griffin. “We need to give ourselves to prayer.” In this excerpt, Emilie writes about the way that a healthy image of God undergirds prayer.

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The Language of Play and Projection Tools for Knowing God and Knowing Self When Listening to God with Children In this excerpt from her book, Spiritual Conversations with Children, Lacy Finn Borgo helps us listen to children and discover play and projection as tools for knowing God and knowing self.

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Free to Fail If failing is just a natural part of learning for children, maybe we shouldn't be so afraid of failure. Lacy Borgo helps us ease into acceptance in her new book, Faith Like a Child.

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Giving Up Control for Lent Practicing Submission for the Week of Ash Wednesday For the start of Lent, pastor Kai Nilsen invites us into the practice of submission—humble, open, mutually dependent relationship with God and with one another.

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Walking By Faith ​​Renovaré published an Advent devotional in 2013 filled with thoughtful pieces by some of our dearest friends. One of these is most certainly Mimi Dixon, who joins us to share her Second Sunday…

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Way of a Pilgrim and a Pilgrim Continues His Way, The This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of an anonymous peasant's quest for the secret of prayer.

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Keeping Our Souls Light Poor choices form poor habits which lead to dull and heavy hearts. Chris Hall with help from Abba Isaac lights the way back to feather-like sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.