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February 16, 2024 Full-Stride Freedom The point is to listen to the Spirit about what to fast and what to hold fast, what to release and what to retain. Christ has set us free to live a free life (Gal 5:1). Lent, baptized by grace, helps…

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January 14, 2022 Relentless Transparency How then can an organization, or a person, claim integrity while remaining in a posture of humility?Humble integrity is only possible through honesty and transparency—with God, self, and others.

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November 5, 2021 The Other Great Book of God The natural world instructs willing students about God’s rhythms, God’s beauty, God’s balance, God’s glory. It neither replaces nor supersedes Scripture, but it does flesh it out.

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November 27, 2020 Becoming Re-wondered The goal of being “re-wondered” with the incarnation isn’t to recapture an emotional high for its own sake, trying as it were “to make every kiss feel like the first”—though wonder by definition does…

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March 30, 2019 How to Pray Our Pain It isn't about giving Jesus information. He knows. It’s about giving him access to the broken places in our life so his love can flow into the cracks and bring healing.

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March 23, 2018 Savoring God + Richard Foster on Dallas Willard Balance is a core value for Renovaré. It's vital, for example, to engage with God both in the analytical and in the intuitive realm. This month we focus on meditation, a more intuitive practice.…

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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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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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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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July 19, 2019 She Turned Down Immortality This is where a contemplative, prayer-filled life—our focus this month—becomes so vital. Because it’s human to look for a formula for following God, to want the equation to work out the same way each…

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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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January 8, 2021 Magnification Thinking about current events in the company of God—that is, choosing in our thinking to be aware of God’s presence and open to the Holy Spirit—can lead us into prayer and repentance, and hopefully…