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…
Culture… Learning from New Monastics 26 Aug 2014 I would be a terrible monk. My teachers could hardly get me to stop talking in class, and I am not much for “roughing-it" without my social media and electronic…
Discipleship TriPerspectival Discipleship: The Interrelationship 1 Jul 2014 What I have called Tri-perspectival discipleship the Bible just simply calls discipleship. I have intentionally highlighted three different angles that our disciple-making efforts need to zero in on. Far too…
Discipleship Triperspectival Discipleship: Orthopathy 24 Jun 2014 If any single piece of the discipleship process gets consistently overlooked it's the orthopathy piece. Right passion is simply not a matter of importance to most Christians. In some circles…
Discipleship Triperspectival Discipleship: Orthopraxy 17 Jun 2014 A model of discipleship that is reduced to simply imparting information is a model of discipleship that will accomplish nothing. Discipleship in the Bible is never reduced to simply imparting…
Discipleship Triperspectival Discipleship: Orthodoxy 10 Jun 2014 Triperspectivalism, that’s the term I am borrowing to describe a new paradigm for thinking about discipleship. It is, of course, not totally new. I will argue later this year that…
Discipleship Being Good Stewards of Doubt 29 Apr 2014 All honest Christians experience doubts. Most of them aren't very dramatic. They're the sort of mundane wrestling with concepts and ideas that are hard to believe, hard to understand, or…
Discipleship When Confession Becomes Sin 22 Apr 2014 The prophet Jeremiah wasn't exaggerating when he wrote, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick" (17:9a). The human heart, tainted with sin as it is, can take…
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