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Holiness: More Than Avoiding Vice Defining holiness by external measures leads to legalism. Richella Parham helps us move beyond avoiding vice and into building a life of virtue.

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A Season of Simplicity Simplicity is an inward reality that results in an outward lifestyle. Richard Foster explores the freedom to be found in the spiritual discipline of simplicity.

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Bonhoeffer’s Road to Freedom Four Great Dimensions of a Spiritual Life Read anew some well-considered words from Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the "four great dimensions of a spiritual life that lead to freedom in all its facets." Richard Foster introduces us to them in this…

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Casting a Vision The Past and Future of Spiritual Formation In 1978, Richard Foster's classic Celebration of Discipline sparked the Christian spiritual formation movement. Forty years later, at a church leadership conference, Foster delivered his final public…

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Emulating Francis and Clare Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 1 Richard Foster remembers the sweet friendship of St. Francis and St. Clare—both of Assisi. They have so much to teach us today about living life fully in the Spirit, meeting God in nature, and…

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Humility Selections from Richard J. Foster and Andrew Murray This booklet includes a selection from Richard Foster’s book, Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue and an excerpt from Andrew Murray’s Humility. We hope you will enter…

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Exploring the Wisdom Tradition Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 1 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you (Proverbs 4:6). Richard Foster joins us to offer four reasons to value the biblical tradition of wisdom…

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Love’s Imparting Three readings on God’s embrace Three readings—two recent and one from the 15th century—unpack the biblical image of God as Lover and humans as Beloved.

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Forty Years of Celebration of Discipline: An Interview with Richard Foster Empowering Spiritual Transformation in the Local Church, An Interview with Richard J. Foster Richard Foster chats with Paul Anderson of George Fox University about the 40th anniversary of Celebration of Discipline, how that first book led to many others, why Renovaré came into being, the…

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How to Start a Prayer Journal Richard Foster invites us to follow the lead of disciples such as St. Augustine, Julian of Norwich, and Blaise Pascal in the practice of journaling our prayers.

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Emilie Griffin — Doorways to the Prayerful Life (Q&A w/ Dallas Willard) Inspired by the chapter on prayer in The Divine Conspiracy, author and Renovaré Ministry Team member Emilie Griffin gives a talk on prayer at the 1999 Renovaré International Conference in Houston.…