Books… Faith Without Love Is Dead 19 May 201519 May 2015 Tuesdays with Edwards! In 1738 Jonathan Edwards preached a series of sermons on 1 Corinthians 13 that has become famously known in print as Charity and Its Fruits and has…
Discipleship What Would Jesus Do? 14 May 201514 May 2015 "What would Jesus do?" That question that became such a successful marketing fad back in the 90's has come across posts that I have read over the last week a…
Discipleship You Keep Using that Word “Discipleship.” I Do Not Think it Means What You Think it Means…. 13 May 201513 May 2015 Would you agree that being a Christian means being a disciple of Christ? I do. Let's talk about that. My mentor Charlie Jones had a formula he tried to live…
Books… Love and Gravity 12 May 201512 May 2015 Tuesdays with Edwards! The whole material universe is preserved by gravity, or attraction, or the mutual tendency of all bodies to each other. One part of the universe is hereby…
Discipleship… What Happens When You Change a Word? 12 May 201512 May 2015 As I asserted at the end of yesterday's post, Paul the Mother, you can learn a lot from a good mother. And it is not only helpful for being a…
Faith… I Am Peter 4 May 20154 May 2015 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James,…
Grace Tolerance or Grace? 3 May 20153 May 2015 Are we tolerant or gracious? Which do we want to be? Tolerance says, "I can ignore what you do." Grace says, "I will love you despite what you do." Tolerance…
Parenthood Lessons from Fatherhood 24 Apr 201524 Apr 2015 Today my youngest turns 9 years old. She is a real sweetie. We have a little ritual we do when I drop her off at school. We give the "I…
Discipleship A Wrap Up to Bad Rap 22 Apr 201522 Apr 2015 Last week I wrote a post entitled Bad Rap in which I talked about the harmful effects that having a bad understanding of what witnessing for Christ means can bring.…
Books… Surrender Is Not a Heroic Sacrifice, But a Simple Sinking Into the Will of God 17 Apr 201517 Apr 2015 It's Fénelon Friday! LETTER 34: Surrender Is Not a Heroic Sacrifice, But a Simple Sinking Into the Will of God Your only assignment, my dear daughter, is to be strong…