Thursday is for Discipleship Assuming that a person has repented of sin and believed in Christ as their Savior, Sin-bearer, reigning and soon-coming King, how do we help people to live moment by moment in relationship to the living God? How do we help them grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ? I have … More Living in a Moment by Moment Relationship with God.
Making Better Disciples A church planter wrote me last week and asked about the material we use for discipleship. Two weeks ago, another church planter asked me a similar question. Earlier this year, I had a conversation with a church staff member of a significant church about how the church they serve does new believer … More The Material You Use for Discipleship is Immaterial
Thursday is for Discipleship “My hour has not yet come.” (John 2:4) “My time is not yet here” (John 7:6) “My time has not yet fully come.” (John 7:8) “His hour had not yet come.” (John 7:30) “His hour had not yet come.” (John 8:20) “Jesus, knowing his hour had come.” (John 13:1) … More An Intense Purposefulness: Where is it?
Thursday is for Discipleship My old copy of Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison disintegrated and my daughter graciously purchased another copy for me. As I reread what this brother endured for the cross, it affirms once again the conclusion that it is times of duress not peace, it is turmoil not calm, that produces … More Wearing Out Old Books and Relearning Old Truth
Sunday Musings “The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast–burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations–that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, (p. 35) Praying that the Word that was preached all … More The Burdensome Ballast of Human Rules on the Gospel
Meditations and Exhortations on Discipleship A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35 ESV) In these two … More Unbelievers Have a Right to Judge Christians
Sunday Musings Choose a topic that will never go out of date. Be a person whose life embodies the topic. Think and pray hard about the topic. Be willing to sacrifice everything for the topic. Write a great first paragraph. Sustain the power of your first paragraph for the length of your book. Finish the … More How to Write a Book that Will be Read for 100 Years
Thursday is for Discipleship 1 Thessalonians 2:13-14 (ESV) And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. For … More Proofs of Authentic Faith: Reception and Suffering
Monday Discussion And He began speaking a parable to the invited quests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them … (Luke 14:7, emphasis added) Questions: How is the church doing at equipping and training disciples to observe life so as to speak into … More Are We Taking Equipping Seriously?
Friday is for Heart Songs “Nothing will change your life more completely and quickly than obedience to the word of the Living God.” We need to train our heats to take joy in simply obeying God, simply hearing his will and doing it–before we know all the results, repercussions and responsibilities that obedience will bring. … More What Will It Take to Change My Life?
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