Thursday is for Discipleship “The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those … More Bonhoeffer on The Inseparable Nature of Grace and Discipleship
Thursday is for Discipleship Longer post than I usually put up but the subject matter is important and difficult for many in our culture to grasp. Christopher Ash does a good job of making the case for the wrongness of living together apart from a marriage commitment. This is excerpted from Kairos Journal with minor … More What’s Wrong with Living Together Unmarried?
Thursday is for Discipleship Yesterday I read an interview with Brother Andrew, famous to us for the book and ministry of God’s Smuggler, but famous in hell for being a dangerous to the forces of wickedness, and famous in heaven as another of Christ’s redeemed reclamation projects. He’s 84 now and not interested in slowing … More I Never Want to Retire (and why you shouldn’t either)
Thursday is for Discipleship I was praying and preparing for a counseling appointment with a young Christian and thought of C.J. Mahaney’s The Cross-Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing. As I reread the book, I thought some of C.J.’s counsel was relevant for all of us so here’s the outline: How do you … More The Cross-Centered Life
Thursday is for Discipleship It was almost 30 years ago. Before I met and married my wife 26 years ago [longer now]. Before I dated and called off a wedding to Dana. Before I spent a year not dating anyone, a godly woman named Pam was the object of my affections. In fact, it … More Can the Confession of Sin be Joyful?
Thursday is for Discipleship “Luther’s return from the cloister was the worst blow the world had suffered since the days of early Christianity. The renunciation he made when he became a monk was child’s play compared with that which he had to make when he returned to the world. Now came the frontal assault. The … More Bonhoeffer on The Only Way to Follow Jesus
Thursday is for Discipleship The church is young. Paul is making his first missionary journey and many disciples have been made amidst some significant opposition and excitement (Acts 14:8-18). A crippled man get’s healed; the population thinks Barnabas is the Greek God Zeus and Paul is Hermes; Paul rescues them from their idolatry by preaching … More Let’s Plant a Church and Appoint Elders in Three Weeks
Thursday is for Discipleship Examine the Lord’s Prayer. Matthew 6:9-15 (ESV) 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, mmmhallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, mmmon earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, mmmas we … More How Teaching Men to Pray May be the Secret to Effective Disciple Making
Thursday is for Discipleship Saw this on a LinkedIn post and was about to puke when I came to the conclusion that it had to be a spoof. It had to be a joke. It had to be? It couldn’t be serious? It had to be a comedy sketch, right? Clearly this was satire, wasn’t … More Seriously Puke Advice on Church Planting
Thursday is for Discipleship Yesterday, I posted a simple comment on Facebook about an observation I made of related to the Presidential debate. Two hours later I checked back in to see a comment stream between some of my more politically conservative friends and some (actually, one) of my more liberal friends. I’m not sure, … More The Scripture, The Candidates, The Church and the Poor
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