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articleWhat Is Imagination? In her book Reclaiming Quiet, Sarah Clarkson asks “what is imagination?” and uses an allegory from a George MacDonald fairy story to unpack the answer.
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articleHelping Children Sleep Every bedtime is an opportunity to support a child's maturing faith in the Lord's goodness and care. Grace Pouch shares tips for helping kids go to sleep with a sense of safety and an awareness of…
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Book ExcerptDelightful Humility Late 19th-century South African pastor and missionary Andrew Murray offers a helpful teaching on living in humble service to others.
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articleOn the Road of Disappointment Rev. Toni Pate explores our solidarity with the unnamed follower of Jesus who met him on the road on Easter evening.
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articleThe Sacred Ordinary of Each Day Keith Riley invites us into a spiritual practice of savoring the spectacularly ordinary gifts of goodness that God offers us every day.
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Book ExcerptMy Story of Being Formed The essential goal — that Christ be formed in you — begins with understanding what has shaped you already. Rich Villodas reflects on both shallow and deep forces of formation in his life, and his…
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articleHelping Children Come Away from Distraction to Enjoy God By carefully crafting environments that filter out the world’s distraction, we can help children build skills for a lifetime of connection with God and attention to his "still, small voice."
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Book ExcerptWhat is the Curriculum for Christlikeness? We are not told precisely how to become like Jesus. Yet if we observe the life and teaching of Jesus, we can see that there is a way. In this excerpt from The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas unpacks some…
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EssayLilias Trotter: A Legacy of Complete Abandonment to God To see Lilias "was to catch a glimpse of ‘that sweet-smiling Jesus.'” Mimi Dixon holds up the life of Lilias Trotter as a model of joyful, Christlike obedience.
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Book ExcerptLove’s Imparting Three readings on God’s embrace Three readings—two recent and one from the 15th century—unpack the biblical image of God as Lover and humans as Beloved.
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Book ExcerptGoing in Search of God’s Vocabulary The journals of Frank Laubach reveal his experiments with hearing God in "beauty and singing birds and cool breezes, in radiant Christlike faces, in sacrifices and in tears."
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Book ExcerptOnly the Workshop Humility in Mary’s Song Mary's obedience, trust, and praise provide a profile in humility that can help us have a truer image of God and of ourselves.
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