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July 12, 2024 Spiral Stairway

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August 10, 2019 Holiness Is Not Holier-Than-Thou The world aches for human beings who embody true holiness—whole and well-functioning people who have “the ability to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.”

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March 11, 2022 The Prayer of Suffering “Our question,” Richard Foster writes, “is not ‘Why is there suffering in the world?’ but ​‘How do I enter into the suffering that is in the world in a way that is redemptive and healing?’ We must…

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January 29, 2021 The Question We Avoid If we cannot trust God to keep bad things from happening to us or to those we love, how do we trust God at all?

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July 12, 2019 Becoming ​“Beautiful of Soul” In fact, the aim of the Christian contemplative is precisely to stay connected to the life that is real. “I have set the Lord always before me,” says David in Psalm 16. It is that awareness of God’s…

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July 9, 2019 Summer 2019 Update When seasons change, you wonder if things will ever be the way they used to be. They won't, of course. One never steps in the same river twice. But thankfully the new river can be as refreshing as…

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January 24, 2025 So much of them in us

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April 27, 2018 We Never Outgrow Asking Petition isn't a lower form of prayer than adoration or contemplation—it is our staple diet, as Richard Foster reminds us this week in an excerpt from Prayer. Often our asking is on behalf of another…

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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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April 14, 2023 From Rote to Revelatory Overcoming familiarity blindness takes intention. It takes humility; we must admit there is more to see than we’ve seen before. It takes slowing down; we must stoop to examine a brick in a road we’ve…

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March 8, 2024 A soul like an atom’s nucleus Here is a soul that—like an atom’s nucleus—cohesively held together things that normally repel one another: compassion and justice, conviction and openness, contemplation and action. And, like an…

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July 26, 2019 Awareness and Attentiveness Abide is defined in one dictionary as "to continue to be present." In other words, abiding is about awareness and attentiveness.