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Bravery to Faithfully Create Sho Baraka explores how we can "bring what we do every day—no matter how humble— into the story of creation and redemption that God is writing."

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Spiritual Formation, Fasting, and Unwanted Ill-Will James, Richella, and Nate explain spiritual formation in layman's terms, and discuss questions about fasting and struggling with feeling ill-will toward others.

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Mimi Dixon — Fasting is Feasting on God Pastor and Renovaré board member Mimi Dixon reframes fasting as feasting on God in this interview with Nathan Foster.

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Holy Hunger Fasting from food or media can open the way for healing Chris Hall encourages us to unplug in the most literal sense and fast in small ways from media. How might your mind and spirit be transformed by abstaining from the distractions of the digital age?

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Mom Seeks God Practicing Grace in the Chaos Motherhood and practicing the spiritual disciplines

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Becoming God’s Dwelling Place A Profile of Anna the Prophet Luke's gospel introduces us to Anna, an eighty-four year old prophet, who models "a life focused in mind, body, and activity on engaging with God."

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Why Meditate on Scripture? There can be a lot of questions about the discipline of meditation on Scripture: What does it mean? How can I practice it? How is it different from prayer? Jan Johnson helps answer some of those in…

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An Introduction and Invitation to the Renovaré Covenant Heart to Heart November 2002 A November 2002 Heart to Heart newsletter where Richard Foster talks about the Renovaré Covenant and its importance to our ongoing life of discipleship.

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Streams · Fasting · Spiritual Conversations with Adult Children In this month’s episode of Friends in Formation, Nate, Richella, and James answer listener questions about which Christian Stream “gives the most bang for the buck,” how to discern when to fast (or…

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Escaping Compulsions Our endless cycle of resolution against, struggle with, and losing to our deeply ingrained compulsions can feel a bit like being confined with a gorilla. We cannot get rid of it, but have to figure…