Five years ago and still a major problem in the church. He, Jesus, is the Lord, the Sovereign King of the Universe. You can’t add Him to your life like a new Christmas present. He wants to (and must) take over and reign supreme in your life. For more see: You Can’t Add Jesus to … More You Can’t Add Jesus to Your Life
Wednesday is for Thinking I am away, making my first ever trip to Israel. While I am gone I have prepared a series of re-posts comprised of some of the most downloaded and viewed pages of the last 5 years. Keep me in prayer for the next 10 days. I am looking forward to walking the streets … More We’ve Got Discipleship All Wrong
Monday is for Discussion I am away, making my first ever trip to Israel. While I am gone I have prepared a series of re-posts comprised of some of the most downloaded and viewed pages of the last 5 years. Keep me in prayer for the next 10 days. I am looking forward to walking the streets … More Why Spiritual Formation is a Bad Substitute for Discipleship
Thursday is for Discipleship I am away, making my first ever trip to Israel. While I am gone I have prepared a series of re-posts comprised of some of the most downloaded and viewed pages of the last 5 years. Keep me in prayer for the next 10 days. I am looking forward to walking the streets … More We’ve Got Discipleship All Wrong
Wednesday is for Discipleship People are always asking me what is a good book or perspective on discipleship, especially for men. There are a lot of good ones out there, but one that I have found particularly refreshing is my friend Larry Osborne’s Contrarian’s Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us. Larry has … More What are the House Rules for the People of God?
Wednesday is for Thinking The world needs to be evangelized. It needs the good news of the gospel. It needs Jesus. We can care for the world and still fail to give them what they really need. This post from five years ago is more relevant today than ever. For more see: Emphasis on Justice … More Emphasis on Justice and City-Transformation is Not Enough
Thursday is for Discipleship This week I have been working on the third message in a series on the fatherhood of God. One of the delights for me has been rereading a small treasure from my library. Sinclair Ferguson’s Children of the Living God is a classic on the Christian life and the fatherhood of … More God is My Father: The Fundamental Way to Think
Please read the whole post slowly. Withness in the ministry of proclamation: Jesus and Paul invited those they wanted to be with them in evangelistic ministry. Purposeful for the ministry of proclamation: “Time with” was going somewhere. Jesus was going to send the twelve and the seventy-two. Paul was going to send Timothy, and Titus, … More Why Did Jesus Disciple the Way He Did?
Thursday is for Discipleship “The God of the Bible has spoken in His Son. The light of the knowledge of His glory is given to us in the face of Jesus Christ. Do I look habitually to the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ as showing me the final truth about the nature … More Do I Look Habitually to the Person and Work of Jesus Christ?
I am about to leave Kansas City after a three day conference on church planting hosted at Mid-America Nazarene Universtiy by Dynamic Church Planting International. Last night I had a long conversation with a great young catalytic leader and church planter by the name of Brandon Marten. Pray for him; he is making a real … More We’ve Got Discipleship All Wrong
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