Discipleship Mentoring, Discipleship, and Fatherhood 10 Oct 201410 Oct 2014 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?" "Let me inherit a double portion of your…
What I've Been Learning Given Comfort to Give Comfort 6 Oct 20146 Oct 2014 I recently met with a person who was having a hard time dealing with the pain and challenge of having a grown child with mental illness. As I listened to…
Christian Living Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Part 3 3 Oct 20143 Oct 2014 To practice the grace of peacemaking is to practice love. It is practicing love because the love of God is expressed to us in the offer of peace through the…
Christian Living Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Part 2 2 Oct 20142 Oct 2014 John 1:14 says that Jesus came from the Father full of grace and truth. Learning to live like Jesus or living for God through Christ means learning to be full…
Exegesis… Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Part 1 30 Sep 201430 Sep 2014 In the opening verses of Matthew 5, the crowds were approaching Jesus and His disciples. Jesus knew that the temptation was going to be there for His disciples to get…
Grace… Lessons from Breakdowns 22 Sep 201422 Sep 2014 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you…
Discipleship As You Go, Make Disciples 18 Sep 201418 Sep 2014 When I was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, I had a part time job at the cigar shop in town, A Little Taste of Cuba. I was not there…
Christian Living… Spurring Lessons, Part 2 10 Sep 201410 Sep 2014 Yesterday I shared the first two ways in which we can spur one another on toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24). The first was to live it, to be…
Christian Living… Spurring Lessons, Part 1 9 Sep 20149 Sep 2014 God wants us to spur one another on toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24). How do we do that? How do we entice and motivate each other toward love…
Christian Living… Spurring One Another? 7 Sep 20147 Sep 2014 This week I am going to finish up my series on the one anothering passages in the New Testament. There are still several more that I did not get to.…