Discipleship… Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will Be Done 8 Mar 20228 Mar 2022 Why does the Lord's will often seem so difficult for us to accept? Most believers are not outright obstinate and rebellious. Generally speaking, we want to obey the Lord, and…
Discipleship Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy 12 May 202112 May 2021 In my own theological tradition there has always been a great emphasis on sound doctrine. This is a good emphasis for, after all, what you believe with regard to Scripture,…
Discipleship… Trust and Obey 9 Jun 2020 "There's no other way to be happy in Jesus," we are told, "than to trust and obey." These two responses are deeply intertwined but the way we understand their relationship…
Discipleship When Good Things Become Bad: Intelligence 10 Apr 201910 Apr 2019 "Too smart for his own good" is a strange phrase. What exactly does it mean to be so smart that it causes one harm? The general idea behind the phrase…
Discipleship… The Bible Questions Us 22 Jan 2019 Good reading involves asking questions of the text. Any effort to understand must wrestle well with the words on the page, and the relationship between ideas. We must seek to…
Discipleship The Warning and Hope of Philippians 3:17-21 9 Aug 2016 There is nothing quite as heartbreaking as watching people walk away from the faith. To watch people who you love reject God, deny the gospel, and leave the church is…
Discipleship Discipleship Out of the Box 28 Jan 2016 One-size-fits-all discipleship is a detriment to the church. Disciple-making has been so programatized and systematized that personal individuality is dismissed, deemed irrelevant. But if no two disciples are exactly the…
Counseling… Pornography and Sanctification 25 Mar 201525 Mar 2015 Porn destroys the soul. An increasing awareness of the long-term effects of prolonged exposure to pornography continues to make clear just how vast the destruction is. It's not merely that…
Discipleship The Reality of Following Jesus: It’s Full of Tension 29 Jan 2015 As I wrap up this series on the reality of following Jesus I am sensitive to a seeming contradiction. I have argued, on the one hand, that following Jesus is…
Discipleship The Reality of Following Jesus: It’s Mundane 22 Jan 201527 Jan 2015 Following Jesus is wonderful, but it’s also really hard. But “hard” does not always mean exciting and dramatic. Sometimes we think of the hardships of following Jesus in romantic terms.…
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