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 Discipleship Difficulties 31 Aug 201531 Aug 2015 Recently we have been on a Chuck binge at our house. Chuck was an action comedy that was on a few years back about a guy named—you guessed it—Chuck, a…
Books… The Discovery and Death of Self 28 Aug 201528 Aug 2015 It's Fénelon Friday! Today's selection is another letter from the spiritual classic, Let Go, a collection of 40 letters he wrote to people he was discipling as a spiritual father.…
Theology Can Love Be Both a Square and a Circle? 20 Aug 201520 Aug 2015 What I have been learning is that sometimes we get so focused on one thing that we see as true that we become blind or unwilling to accept something else…
Discipleship Growing Humility and Grace 19 Aug 201519 Aug 2015 Real humility and grace are two of the most desirable traits a person can have. They are traits that turn heads. One of the reasons that they are so remarkable…
Discipleship Discipleship Requires Grace 18 Aug 201518 Aug 2015 My posts this week are focused on Matthew 28:16-20 (NIV). While many of us are very familiar with verses 18-20, what is often referred to as the Great Commission, we…
Discipleship Discipleship Requires Humility 17 Aug 201517 Aug 2015 My posts this week are focused on Matthew 28:16-20 (NIV). Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw…
Books… How to Bear Suffering Peacefully 3 Jul 20153 Jul 2015 It's Fénelon Friday! LETTER 2: How to Bear Suffering Peacefully Concerning our friend, I pray that God will give him a simplicity of trust that will bring him peace. When…