Apprentice 2 Jesus

Dallas Willard

  • What to Do with the Beatitudes

    Dallas Willard’s handling of the Beatitudes in The Divine Conspiracy simply flipped my world upside down. I had not considered his approach before. He is probably not original to the thought, but the first time I saw this approach it was from him. How do we see the Beatitudes in Matthew 5? I remember the… Read more

  • The Great Beauty of Jesus

    Moving my way through The Divine Conspiracy as a refresher, I gain wonderful reminders of how to communicate exactly why I follow Christ. It is not to punch my ticket and get out of hell. It is not to save the world or solve the issues of poverty. Jesus, quite frankly, is the smartest person… Read more

  • Sin-Management and Getting Back to the Gospel

    When we get more obsessed with what people do or don’t do, we’ve moved into the gospel of sin management. We are “white-knuckling” our way through life. If you’ve ever been a bit afraid on that first huge hill the first time on a roller coaster, you understand “white-knuckling.” You grab onto the hand bar… Read more

  • The Gospel of Sin-Management

    The process of following Christ is often thought of in terms of outward change. There should be something that look different in the believer. On the “conservative” side of Christianity, sin management is found in having our sins forgiven. (Maybe you’ve seen a bumper sticker that says, “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.”) On the “liberal”… Read more

  • Save Us From Bumper Sticker Theology

    We have so much information thrown at us every day we don’t know how to sift out what is meaningful and what is meaningless. As a result, we are reduced to trying to get our “message” out in short, pithy ways that capture some sort of attention, but ultimately fails to communicate what we really… Read more

  • Back to the Man Who Started It All

    The whole concept of “Apprentice2Jesus” arose out of reading Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy. Actually, it took two readings of the book, plus preaching on it, before I began to get what he was saying. (I’m an incredibly slow learner.) But as I began to get my head around what he was saying, I knew… Read more