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“A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here waiting for our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.” —A. W. Tozer
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“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate.
—C. S. Lewis
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From tech to art to books to habits, Rapt is an award-winning site for busy but thirsty people of faith who want to live every day with one foot in this world and one in the world to come. If that’s you, we curate an essential selection of ideas and resources to brighten the next stretch of your spiritual journey.
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Do you ever feel guilty because quiet time just doesn’t cut it for you? Are you ever frustrated by a “one size fits all spirituality”? Don’t despair.
Spiritual direction helps us to learn to ask better questions like, “Where is God in this?” It creates a space where we can search for hints of the divine in our lives.
The joy and messy beauty of genuine connections between people—from shared purposes to meaningful conversations and navigating conflicts with grace.
In Scripture, God spoke to Elijah by his “still small voice.” By telling this story, God seems to be revealing a preferred way of communicating with us, too—today.
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“ We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that he should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at his love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.” —Brennan Manning
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Pastor Andrew Arndt, a Rapt alum, serves as the lead pastor at New Life East in Colorado Springs, CO. Here he delivers a sermon entitled “The End of Signs,” where he teaches us in John 11 that miracles aren’t just miracles, but actually signs telling us about the identity of Jesus.
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“God has very high aims for you and me. His aim is that each one of us becomes the kind of person he can empower to do what we want … that is what life is about.”
Your life is not a series of random events. Your family background, education, and life experiences—even the most painful ones—all equip you to do some work that no one else can do.
Becoming aware of—and living out—the Christian liturgical year allows followers of Jesus to enter into communion with him in a way that touches body, mind, and soul.
We cannot create spiritual renewal by ourselves, but we can “prepare the altar” and ask God to send his Holy Spirit to change our hearts, our churches, and our communities.
God comes near through his Word, and he comes close through his creation. If we don’t know and see this, we will miss so much of who he is and how he longs to be with us.
Scorsese doesn’t need to defend his faith or burnish religion’s image. His movies are steeped in Catholic sensibilities but embrace painful questions that can accompany belief.
The Pour Over—a faith-based, thrice-weekly email newsletter—identifies top news stories from the mainstream press and offers a biblical perspective.
I've struggled with worship. For much of my life, it was the part of any church service when my mind was most apt to wander. But then, finally, some friends taught me how to worship.
How do we make decisions that are good for ourselves and for our communities when misinformation pervades the news and information we consume?
Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, one of Europe’s best, quit Norway’s official Lutheran Church as a teen but returned to faith while struggling with alcoholism.
Seth Kaplan, researcher at Johns Hopkins who studies fragile states around the world, argues that rebuilding social capital—including faith congregations—can address social problems.
Faith-based films like “I Can Only Imagine,” “Jesus Revolution,” and “Sound of Freedom” compete at the box office with mainstream movies. Movie critic Joseph Holmes explores why.
In a culture riven by crises of miscommunication, we suffer unnecessarily in our families and even in our body politic. Maybe it’s always been this way. But it certainly seems worse today.
Pascal was among the first to grapple with the implications of modern science on faith, and his scientific sophistication didn’t keep him from being a devout Christian.
Jacob Lupfer believes the distance between psychoanalysis and faith is needlessly wide. Religious leaders and psychoanalytic practitioners, he says, should take a step toward each other.
For many, the relationship between birds and Christianity does not stray further than the dove and olive branch on a banner at church. However, for Christian birdwatchers, the link is alive.
Christian Pinkston, whose firm represents 'He Gets Us,’ makes the case that our habit of attacking ‘our own’ on peripheral topics—especially in public—is obstructive to the spread of the gospel.
When music encounters religion, the art can be transformed and may reveal God in astonishing beauty—like the earliest Gregorian chants through Bach and Mozart.
Paul Prather, rural Pentecostal pastor/journalist explains how Richard Rohr’s bestselling book, Falling Upward, maded sense of a big transformation going on in his heart.
N.T. Wright helped pastor and journalist Paul Prather answer this most vital of questions: What if Heaven isn’t a place beyond the stars but a Kingdom already here, now?
Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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In his penultimate book, The Book of Forgiving (co-authored with his daughter, Mpho Tutu), Archbishop Desmond Tutu offered four steps to forgiving and healing.
Malcolm Gladwell’s New York Times best-selling books highlight the unexpected twists in social science research. David and Goliath, though, also explores faith-related themes.
Mark Batterson has received acclaim as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. and co-creator of Ebenezer’s Coffeehouse, the largest coffee house on Capitol Hill.
Dr. Gary Chapman, marriage and family expert and author of The Five Love Languages, has helped countless numbers of people communicate and understand love better.
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