Here are some discipleship quotes from “Living Life Boldly” by Ted Roberts, which, I think, capture the heart of discipleship. Don’t get me wrong here, I still believe discipleship is a systematic process that involves discipline, but without the right heart, the...
In the latest issue of “Leadership” magazine, American mega-church pastor Andy Stanley suggests that we should stop referring to pastors as “shepherds” because most modern (Western) pastors have never seen a flock of sheep and have no clue how to tend, feed, or lead...
Last week as I was driving my son to a tennis tournament in Nashville, we both laughed at what we initially thought was an SNL-type spoof on talk-radio. About five minutes into the “sketch,” we realized these guys were serious. “Dr. Expert” was explaining a...
Wide awake at 5:00 a.m., again. The blessing of jetlag . . . Matthew 18:1 records one of those questions that I imagine the disciples wish they had never asked. Obsessed with their own status, position, and self-importance, they asked a question that should have had...
Warning: Long blog—at least long for me. I know some people blog on and on forever. Not me. I usually try to keep it short and simple. Lately, I’ve been thinking about my spiritual journey—how I got from there to here—wherever there and here are. What were the main...
The last verse in the Old Testament was a prophetic promise and warning that God would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, or else the nation would be under a curse. We don’t have to look very far to see the...
