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.…
Discipleship Seeing A Heavenly Vision of God 21 Jan 2015 How can Christians survive the onslaught of the evil trinity (Satan, the world, and the flesh)? How can we resist powerful temptations and avoid the snares of the Devil? It…
Discipleship The Reality of Following Jesus: It’s Costly 15 Jan 2015 We talk like we believe, but I am not sure that Christians in America really understand it. I am not sure I always accept it. At one level we concede…
Discipleship The Reality of Following Jesus: Introduction 8 Jan 2015 He was young, optimistic, and highly ambitious when I met him. His newfound faith was exciting and dramatic, and he seemed to be as exciting about Jesus as he once…
Discipleship… Reflections on a Year-Long Study on Discipleship 7 Jan 20158 Jan 2015 It’s really quite astounding the breadth of literature written on the subject of discipleship. If you wait another five minutes I suspect two new books will be published about it.…
Discipleship Moral Responsibility with Our Words 18 Dec 2014 To be careless with your words is to invite problems. I remember challenging a young college student once to think more carefully about her words, to be intentional with word…
Discipleship Following Christ Costs Us All Something 24 Sep 2014 It was one of those moments where the weightiness of following Jesus was very pronounced. I sat in my office with a friend, a sweet and kind man who wanted…
Counseling… When Perfectionism Is Sin 17 Sep 201418 Sep 2014 We give sin such cute labels. It’s not “adultery,” it’s a “tryst”. It’s not “arrogance,” but “confidence.” It’s not “greed,” it’s “fiscal responsibility.” We have all sorts of ways of…
Culture… Learning From New Monasticism: Abstention 3 Sep 20143 Sep 2014 Abstention has always been a part of the Christian walk of obedience. Peter urges the believers to "abstain from the passions of the flesh," which, he says, "wage war against your…
Discipleship Disciple Is A Noun! 27 Aug 2014 When discipleship focuses more on what we do and what we know than on who we are it has lost its sure footing. There are far too many pockets of…
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