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  <itunes:summary>Contemplative Christian devotional readings — drawn from the older tradition: Andrew Murray, François Fénelon, Augustine, Spurgeon. From Everspring Press.</itunes:summary>
  <description>Contemplative Christian devotional readings — drawn from the older tradition: Andrew Murray, François Fénelon, Augustine, Spurgeon. From Everspring Press.</description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Printable Devotions for Women's Groups: Resources for the Leader Who Doesn't Have Time to Write Them]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Printable Devotions for Women&#8217;s Groups: Resources for the Leader Who Doesn&#8217;t Have Time to Write Them You lead the women&#8217;s group. You may also be working full-time, raising children, supporting a husband through a difficult season, or all three. The Tuesday-night meeting is in three days and you have not yet written the devotion. You&#8230;
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    <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Printable Devotions for Women&#8217;s Groups: Resources for the Leader Who Doesn&#8217;t Have Time to Write Them You lead the women&#8217;s group. You may also be working full-time, raising children, supporting a husband through a difficult season, or all three. The Tuesday-night meeting is in three days and you have not yet written the devotion. You&#8230;
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    <title><![CDATA[Prayer Journal Notebook: What Actually Makes One Work]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Prayer Journal Notebook: What Actually Makes One Work You have probably bought a prayer journal notebook before. You have probably also stopped using it. This is the most common pattern among Christian women who try to journal — buy the lovely notebook, use it for ten days, leave it on the bedside table for a&#8230;
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Prayer Journal Notebook: What Actually Makes One Work You have probably bought a prayer journal notebook before. You have probably also stopped using it. This is the most common pattern among Christian women who try to journal — buy the lovely notebook, use it for ten days, leave it on the bedside table for a&#8230;
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    <title><![CDATA[A Gratitude Journal for Anxiety: The Slow Practice That Actually Helps]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A Gratitude Journal for Anxiety: The Slow Practice That Actually Helps You have heard you should keep a gratitude journal. You have probably tried it. You may have written I am grateful for my family, my home, my health one night, felt mildly fraudulent for not feeling more grateful, and not opened the journal again&#8230;.
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Gratitude Journal for Anxiety: The Slow Practice That Actually Helps You have heard you should keep a gratitude journal. You have probably tried it. You may have written I am grateful for my family, my home, my health one night, felt mildly fraudulent for not feeling more grateful, and not opened the journal again&#8230;.
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    <title><![CDATA[The 5-Minute Journal for Christian Women: A Structured Template]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The 5-Minute Journal for Christian Women: A Structured Template You do not have time. You have read enough about journaling to know that &#8220;ten minutes in the morning&#8221; sounds simple to the person writing the advice and impossible to the woman with three children, a job, and a husband who needs to leave by 7:30&#8230;.
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The 5-Minute Journal for Christian Women: A Structured Template You do not have time. You have read enough about journaling to know that &#8220;ten minutes in the morning&#8221; sounds simple to the person writing the advice and impossible to the woman with three children, a job, and a husband who needs to leave by 7:30&#8230;.
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    <title><![CDATA[Online Devotions for Women — vs The Slow Paper Practice]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Online Devotions for Women — vs The Slow Paper Practice You have probably tried both. Maybe you started with a paper Bible and a notebook and moved to an app because the app was always with you. Maybe you started with an app and moved to paper because the app started feeling like another inbox&#8230;.
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Online Devotions for Women — vs The Slow Paper Practice You have probably tried both. Maybe you started with a paper Bible and a notebook and moved to an app because the app was always with you. Maybe you started with an app and moved to paper because the app started feeling like another inbox&#8230;.
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    <title><![CDATA[A Bible Verse for the Day: How to Actually Sit With One]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A Bible Verse for the Day: How to Actually Sit With One You are looking for a Bible verse for today. You have searched it before. You have probably found the same fifteen or twenty verses that get cycled across every Christian Instagram post, every devotional graphic, every morning roundup — and you have nodded&#8230;
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Bible Verse for the Day: How to Actually Sit With One You are looking for a Bible verse for today. You have searched it before. You have probably found the same fifteen or twenty verses that get cycled across every Christian Instagram post, every devotional graphic, every morning roundup — and you have nodded&#8230;
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    <title><![CDATA[What Proverbs 31 Actually Says: A Slow Read for the Tired Woman]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[What Proverbs 31 Actually Says: A Slow Read for the Tired Woman You have heard of the Proverbs 31 woman. You have probably heard of her too many times, and rarely from someone who has slowed down enough to read the chapter the way it was written. If you are tired of being told to&#8230;
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[What Proverbs 31 Actually Says: A Slow Read for the Tired Woman You have heard of the Proverbs 31 woman. You have probably heard of her too many times, and rarely from someone who has slowed down enough to read the chapter the way it was written. If you are tired of being told to&#8230;
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    <title><![CDATA[Spurgeon's Faith's Checkbook: A Victorian Devotional That Still Holds the Page]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Spurgeon&#8217;s Faith&#8217;s Checkbook: A Victorian Devotional That Still Holds the Page Most &#8220;promises of God&#8221; devotionals feel like claim-tickets. Open the page, find a verse, claim the promise, expect the outcome. That is not what Charles Spurgeon was doing when he wrote Faith&#8217;s Checkbook in 1893. He was dying. He had buried friends. He had&#8230;
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Spurgeon&#8217;s Faith&#8217;s Checkbook: A Victorian Devotional That Still Holds the Page Most &#8220;promises of God&#8221; devotionals feel like claim-tickets. Open the page, find a verse, claim the promise, expect the outcome. That is not what Charles Spurgeon was doing when he wrote Faith&#8217;s Checkbook in 1893. He was dying. He had buried friends. He had&#8230;
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    <title><![CDATA[Fénelon's Final Counsel for the Soul Walking the Slow Path]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Fénelon on long obedience and the slow path — a closing reading of Spiritual Progress for the soul who has walked with God a long time and needs to keep going.
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fénelon on long obedience and the slow path — a closing reading of Spiritual Progress for the soul who has walked with God a long time and needs to keep going.
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    <title><![CDATA[Fénelon's Letter for the Soul That Cannot Forgive Herself]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Fénelon on how to forgive yourself — a slow, tender reading of Spiritual Progress for the woman who holds against herself what God has already released.
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    <title><![CDATA[Fénelon's Letter to the Christian Tempted to Quit]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Fénelon for the Christian tempted to leave faith — a slow reading of Spiritual Progress for the soul that has considered walking away and is afraid to say so.
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    <title><![CDATA[Fénelon's Counsel for the Christian Who Feels Far From God]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Fénelon on feeling far from God — a slow reading of Spiritual Progress for the Christian whose God has gone quiet and the felt nearness has thinned.
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    <title><![CDATA[Fénelon's Letter to the Woman Who Has Lost Her Way]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Fénelon when you&#8217;ve lost your way — a slow reading of Spiritual Progress for the Christian woman whose old practices have stopped helping.
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    <description><![CDATA[Fenelon for christian perfectionist — a pastoral letter from Spiritual Progress to the soul whose self-judgement is killing the relationship with God.
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