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“And these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work… this will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s son that we will be mature in the Lord.” (Ephesians 4:11-13)

Unity. Knowled

Marva Dawn, author of Keeping the Sabbath Wholly,

Ken Shigematsu • God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God

The story, while quaint, gets at an important truth: too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.

James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

Liturgy is the way we learn to “put on” Christ (Col. 3:12–16).

James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

The best adult life is lived by making commitments and staying faithful to those commitments: commitments to a vocation, to a family, to a philosophy or faith, to a community. Adult life is about making promises to others, being faithful to those promises. The beautiful life is found in the mutual giving of unconditional gifts.

David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto

For Augustine, we are made for joy. Joy is another name for the rest we find when we give ourselves over to the One who, for the joy that was set before him, gave himself for us. We find joy when we look for the satisfaction of our hungers in the Triune God who will never leave us or forsake us, when we find our enjoyment in an immortal God whose l

James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

I want to supplement Willard’s emphasis on the individual practice of the spiritual disciplines with what might be a counterintuitive thesis in our “millennial” moment: that the most potent, charged, transformative site of the Spirit’s work is found in the most unlikely of places—the church!

James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

The soul’s hunger for peace is a longing for a kind of rest from anxiety and frantic pursuits—it is to rest in God.