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December 13, 2019 When God Breaks In We Have a Choice “When God breaks in we have a choice,” Mimi writes. “Embrace or reject, believe or doubt. Either we abandon ourselves to God’s path, the steps of which are only revealed as each foot is lifted in…

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August 2, 2024 Zoom Out and Lean In

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July 2, 2021 Beware of the Humble Mumble For us, growth in humility can feel elusive or impossible. If you think you’re growing in this area, isn’t that proof that you aren’t? If we think of humility, however, as alignment with truth—not…

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January 24, 2025 So much of them in us

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May 12, 2023 Pushing Past Weeds of Inconvenience Most of our lives don’t allow for hours of daily prayer and solitude. But sometimes all that’s needed is to take our body somewhere for a few minutes and push past weeds of inconvenience to skip a…

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April 6, 2018 Life Without Lack + New Interview with Richard Foster Richard Foster reminds us, "Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life. Of all the Spiritual Disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with…

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October 1, 2021 Dear Trinity It's true that our Maker wants our hearts far more than our perfectly addressed prayers. Still, how we address God matters because it reveals something about how we think about God. And what we think…

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April 5, 2019 Mountaintops and Valleys Wherever you find yourself, my prayer for you and me is this: zero resistance to the Holy Spirit. When we find ourselves in the upper room may we lay our heads on the heart of Jesus. And when we find…

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November 7, 2025 Unearthing the Heart (New Free Renovaré Resource) Using the biblical psalms as a model, Unearthing the Heart is a free Renovaré resource offering two stepped-out exercises for digging into your unique circumstances and writing your own psalm-style…

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April 29, 2022 His Father Is Our Father Growing in this intimacy with God requires finding space to be with God, both personally and in community (as Chris Hall points out). Without carving out this space for prayer—to talk and listen to…

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June 11, 2021 Anxiety and Spiritual Formation This time, sensing God's invitation to a learning pilgrimage, he devoured dozens of books on anxiety and spiritual formation, and prayerfully put into practice what he learned. Gradually, new habits…

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September 18, 2020 Sustainable Love But like so many things in the spiritual life, love can’t simply be willed. At least not very well nor for very long. It has to be grown. And prayer is the garden where love is cultivated.