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…
Review… Can Cancer Be a Gift? 13 Sep 201513 Sep 2015 Several months ago (maybe even longer than that) a friend of mine lent me a copy of Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr.'s DVD series, Believing God, based on his book of…
Books… Living by the Cross and by Faith 11 Sep 201511 Sep 2015 It's Fénelon Friday! LETTER 12: Living by the Cross and by Faith We have crosses to bear everyday. But I have learned to enjoy the bitterest of them. And it…
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 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…
Books… The Sight of Our Imperfections Should Not Take Away Our Peace 4 Sep 20154 Sep 2015 It's Fénelon Friday! LETTER 11: The Sight of Our Imperfections Should Not Take Away Our Peace There is something about your suffering which is very subtle and perhaps hard for…
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 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…