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Two Simple Questions for Cultivating Self-Kindness And How Asking Them Also Grows Empathy for Others Cindy Bunch offers a simple way to look back on each day that can lead to increased compassion toward self and empathy toward others.

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Hiding What They Seek In My Desire to be ​“Seeker Friendly,” Am I Guilty of Concealing Jesus? Recalling a personal story, Carolyn Arends ponders whether our attempts to be “seeker friendly” inadvertently conceal Jesus.

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Ending Racism Begins With How We Identify Ourselves How to Take a Small But Essential Step in the Right Direction A small but essential step to overcoming racism, asserts Justin Campbell, is see to first ourselves through God's matrix.

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Transformed through Writing Luci Shaw offers some advice from her book Life Path. Writing as a spiritual discipline can open channels that transform us, heal us, and bring us a few steps closer to God.

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Taking Sin — and Grace — Seriously Seasons of disruption and challenge can reveal disheartening cracks in our personalities. They can also become an invitation to reset our direction or cultivate new habits. Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung…

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How to Release Resentment: Steps for Forgiving Others Nathan shares a personal reflection on the hold of resentment upon our hearts and minds and how "it is possible to release the person, the burden, and the toxicity it places on us into the capable…

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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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Helping Children Notice God Cooperating with the movement of the Spirit in children’s lives Lacy Finn Borgo offers practical steps adults can take to help children notice God's presence and to draw them deeper into the goodness, beauty, and truth of the with-God life.

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Becoming Like Jesus: Virtuous Life "Jesus shows us how to embrace a life that is abundant and full, a life of integrity and wholeness, a life surrendered to love," writes Chris Webb. "This is the way of holiness; Christ invites you to…

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Holiness: More Than Avoiding Vice Defining holiness by external measures leads to legalism. Richella Parham helps us move beyond avoiding vice and into building a life of virtue.

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Beauty of Holiness From The Reservoir From ​The Reservoir devotional, this one-week excerpt explores true holiness and virtue.

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Heart Transformation and Friendship with Jesus Can there be progress forward in our life with God? From Sanctuary of the Soul, Richard Foster looks at what changes we can expect to happen as we follow Jesus and keep asking, listening, and…