What I've Been Learning Grave Robbing 16 Sep 201516 Sep 2015 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a…
What I've Been Learning Following that Voice 15 Sep 201515 Sep 2015 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me (John 10:27, NIV). Have you ever gotten the urge to call or visit someone and find out…
Books… The Great Commandment Means… 14 Sep 201514 Sep 2015 "The Jesus way of life is to be lived at the intersection of vertical love for God and horizontal love for others. To truly love others, we must draw our…
Discipleship Learning to Be Spirit Led 10 Sep 201510 Sep 2015 We need to be in tune with the Spirit if we are going to grow into mature disciplers of God's people. How do we do that? Being in tune with…
Discipleship Discipleship Is Spirit Led 9 Sep 20159 Sep 2015 In my last two posts (Excepting of course Tuesdays with Edwards) we walked through John 4:1-42, the account of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well. What I want…
Discipleship It is the Nature of Springs to Flow Outward 6 Sep 20157 Sep 2015 The account of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well in John 4:1-42 is one a profound and rich passage, and one that is even more illuminating when the…
Discipleship Jesus “Had” to Go to Samaria??? 6 Sep 20156 Sep 2015 For the last three months I have been writing a series of posts on discipleship. We started this series off by saying that a Christian disciple, at its core, is…
Discipleship The Importance of Understanding that Discipleship Is Messy 3 Sep 20153 Sep 2015 Growing and changing can be confusing and perplexing. Sometimes things happen in life that explode like bombs leaving us wondering what is going on and running for cover. Other times…
Discipleship Why Discipleship Gets Messy 2 Sep 20152 Sep 2015 Discipleship is messy. What do I mean by messy? I mean perplexing, confusing, frustrating. For example, it is not uncommon for people to not understand what things mean or why…
Discipleship… Lessons from Chickens 30 Aug 201530 Aug 2015 Once upon a time, we had chickens. We got into raising chickens because the school Maggie and Anna were attending at the time had eggs in an incubator and once…