When Spiritual Disciplines Become Routine
I’ll admit it. I can sometimes lose focus on what discipleship is all about. I can be so focused on the tasks themselves — prayer, Bible reading, fasting, church attendance, etc. — that I
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Discipleship Is for Messy People Too
I had lunch with a friend recently. He knows that I’m doing some writing on discipleship. He asked me about my project, as well as the books that I’m reading, and
Pastors: Get Low
Jared Wilson’s bio always cracks me up:
Jared is not a catalytic "agent of change" or a visionary anything. He is a failed church planter and once made a mess
The Bible Isn’t Trying to Say Anything
I occasionally hear a preacher say, “Now, what the Bible is trying to say is this…” I know what they mean. We don’t immediately grasp everything that a text says, and the
Let Our Ordered Lives Confess
One of my favorite hymns – and there are many – is Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92), an American Quaker. (He wrote it as a poem, not a