1. My May 2012 Discipleship Plan
Starting this month, I plan to post my personal Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength discipleship plan monthly on my blog. I think that getting into this habit will help a) keep me accountable to my own discipleship “training”...
The Christ and the Buddha: Suffering , Desire, and...
Posted by Jeff on Feb 22nd, 2012 in Discipleship, Emerging Church, Feature, Personal Reflections, Worldview | 0 comments
In a palace over 2500 years ago, a prince named Siddhārtha was born whose parents decided to keep all signs of decay and death from him. When he was taken into a garden, for instance, maids were...
Have you heard? Jesus > Religion
Posted by Jeff on Jan 14th, 2012 in Discipleship, Emerging Church, Feature, Personal Reflections, Worldview | 0 comments
Ok, I’ll bite.
Someone asked me to comment on the viral video making its way around the interwebz: Why I Love Jesus, But Hate Religion by Jefferson Bethke.
Kevin DeYoung has written the best...
Personal Goals for 2012
Posted by Jeff on Jan 2nd, 2012 in Discipleship, Emerging Church, Feature, Personal Reflections, Uncategorized | 0 comments
2011 was a turbulent year for me. Professionally, my pastoral role continued to expand beyond my ability to adapt to the responsibilities and demands. This had me feeling “behind the...
Four Questions on Discipling Young Adults
Posted by Jeff on Dec 14th, 2011 in Discipleship, Emerging Church, Feature, Personal Reflections | 0 comments
A young adult in our church recently asked me the following four questions related to discipling young adults for a school project. I really enjoyed pulling together my thoughts on these four...
The Dawnbringer
We all live between the polarities of great hope and deep fear. In the decades preceding Jesus’s birth, if you would have asked Israel to chart where they were along the spectrum of hope and fear, they’d...
Tithing: A Step-By-Step Guide for Beginn...
“I’m afraid biblical charity is more than merely giving away that which we could afford to do without anyway.” C.S. Lewis The greatest impediment to tithing is often the feeling of being...Archives
