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Pursuing Holy Obedience From his enduring classic, A Testament of Devotion, Thomas Kelly offers four steps or guidelines to help us "commit our lives in unreserved obedience to Him."

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Live Life to the Full Dallas Willard helps us understand the synergy between God’s transforming grace and our active cooperation: “You have never seen people more active than those who have been set on fire by the grace…

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Defining the Holiness Tradition: The Virtuous Life Discover What Holiness Is and Is Not In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster reveals the beauty of a virtuous life by laying out what holiness is and is not.

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The Power of Posture The Delight of Walking Upright What does it mean to be "upright" in our ways, our hearts, our walk? Brian Morykon looks at what research on the posture of our body can teach us about the posture of our hearts.

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Defining The Incarnational Tradition: The Sacramental Life God likes matter and uses it "to make present and visible the invisible realm of the spirit". In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster invites us to live sacramentally in all…

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Conversion: A Moment, A Lifetime This devotional classic from E. Stanley Jones is "as up-to-date as tomorrow morning." Conversion, Jones says, is both a one-time event and the work of a lifetime, one that requires receptivity and…

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Encountering Christ in All of Scripture A Word-Centered Life, evangelical in the very best sense of that word, is one deeply grounded in Scripture. Chris Webb shares how we encounter Christ in the Bible.

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Practicing Shalom in Our Time In this personal reflection, pastor and Renovaré Ministry Team member Juanita Rasmus shares about the disciplines that help her to be a vessel of God's shalom in broken world.

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Maturing the Spiritual Formation Movement Some of us have been at this spiritual formation work for a while now, long enough to see quite a mixture of helpful and decidedly unhelpful things set forth. Richard Foster assesses where we are and…

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Thriving in the Winter Season of the Soul We can cooperate with the Spirit’s transforming work even in the midst of the winter of the soul. Renovaré Ministry Team member and pastor Mimi Dixon shares how.

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The Sacrament of the Present Moment "When will God be all in all to us?" Come and acquaint yourself with Jean-Pierre de Caussade's thoughts on aligning ourselves with divine will by living fully with God in each present moment.

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On Love and Nonviolence When his home was bombed in 1956 with his wife and young child inside, King chose to "confront the problem with love." Spiritual discipline is needed to cultivate restraint and stay committed to…