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To Will One Thing Søren Kierkegaard's prayers and the accompanying exercises from Devotional Classics help us learn to seek God's agenda ahead of our own.

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A Pilgrimage with Sunlight This one-day retreat will help you reflect on and expe­ri­ence God’s pres­ence dur­ing the course of a day. It con­sists of three times of observa­tion and prayer that could take as lit­tle as 15…

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Peace in the Face of War Tiffany Clark, a member of the Renovaré Institute alumni community, was in the Golan Heights when war broke out between Israel and Palestine. She shares reflections and pastoral suggestions for how…

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Making Companionship With God a Priority at All Costs Excerpt from Soul Care in African American Practice In this excerpt from Soul Care in African American Practice, Barbara Peacock calls out patterns of busyness that threaten our intimacy with God. She encourages us to "make companionship with God a…

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Five Misconceptions that Hinder Prayer Richard Foster corrects some common misunderstandings that get in the way of a conversational friendship with the Lord.

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A Spiritual Formation Workbook Small Group Resources for Nurturing Christian Growth A beginning workbook for spiritual formation groups that provides guidelines for starting a group, study plans for the first nine sessions, and a questionnaire that maps the way ahead.

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The Furnace of Transformation Excerpt from Way of the Heart In his classic book The Way of the Heart, Henri Nouwen calls the discipline of solitude “the furnace of transformation” because it is there that we meet Christ, without whom we have no power to…

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Becoming Like Jesus: Compassionate Life Chris Webb examines what it means to live out the Compassionate Life "in the ever widening concentric circles of community in which we live."

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How to Live with Open Hands From The Ninefold Path of Jesus Using the first Beatitude of Jesus as a guide, Mark Scandrette invites us to move from close-handed worry to open-handed trust.

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Dallas Willard on Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle "This book and this author," Dallas Willard says in regard to Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle, "immediately announced themselves as a unique presence of God in my life."

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The True You Your Identity and God’s Invitation God welcomes you “as you are,” but he also has plans to restore you to the fullness of your humanity.

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Taking Sin — and Grace — Seriously Seasons of disruption and challenge can reveal disheartening cracks in our personalities. They can also become an invitation to reset our direction or cultivate new habits. Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung…