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…
Discipleship… Singing the Language of the Kingdom 17 Apr 201417 Apr 2014 Music conjures up memories, elevates emotions, and cultivates passions. It's a powerful phenomena. Songs have a power unto themselves that can draw out all sorts of desires and dreams in…
Discipleship Tri-Perspectival Discipleship 1 Apr 20141 Apr 2014 He mentioned that he had been to Bible College more than once while he sat across from me. It was important for him to remind me that he “knew the…
Discipleship Deconstructing Contemporary Discipleship 25 Mar 2014 “Behind every pedagogy is a philosophical anthropology.” – James K.A. Smith (Desiring the Kingdom, 27) James K.A. Smith is convinced that what makes “Christian education” distinctly “Christian” is that it…
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