Apprentice 2 Jesus

Discipleship/Spiritual Formation

  • Rich Words

    “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness taht comes through Jesus Christ — to the… Read more

  • 09/09/09

    I had to get that in somewhere! Spirit Led Leadership This weekend I am leading a retreat and we are reflecting on Spirit-led leadership. I love learning from Moses, so I jotted down some of these thoughts about the leadership traits of Moses: 1. Hearing God He heard God from the burning bush. He kept… Read more

  • Good to Great in God’s Eyes

    Chip Ingram has a book out called Good to Great in God’s Eyes. I am using as a staff book for my church. While the first chapter is a bit more simplistic than I had hoped, there are some great thoughts. One of the key areas to greatness in the Kingdom of God is to… Read more

  • New Year’s Thoughts Two weeks of traveling has left me behind on some things going on as the New Year unfolds. An article about “Marketing Jesus” is very thoughtful. Long, but a good read. I always enjoy Chuck Colson’s columns. He writes one on how relativism has brought us to our current point in the… Read more

  • New Year’s Thoughts Two weeks of traveling has left me behind on some things going on as the New Year unfolds. An article about “Marketing Jesus” is very thoughtful. Long, but a good read. I always enjoy Chuck Colson’s columns. He writes one on how relativism has brought us to our current point in the… Read more

  • Why Christianity DOES work… Christianity works because JESUS works. It is not us. Yet, there is the combination of us and the Spirit of God. As Dallas Willard would say: “Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning.” The life of God is powerful. It is most powerful when we will choose… Read more

  • Why Christianity DOES work… Christianity works because JESUS works. It is not us. Yet, there is the combination of us and the Spirit of God. As Dallas Willard would say: “Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning.” The life of God is powerful. It is most powerful when we will choose… Read more

  • Two great goals I have for 2007.1. We need a fresh revelation of Jesus Christ in the American Church.We don’t know who Jesus is. We have our pragmatism, we have our programs. We have our thoughts about who Jesus is. But we need to KNOW HIM. He needs to show up in our midst, like… Read more

  • “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate.” Matt. 7:13, NLT Who teaches you? Whose disciple are you? You are somebody’s disciple. You learned how to live from someone else. Contrary to contemporary Western thought, we are NOT our “own person”. Who has discipled you over your lifetime? One of the major transitions… Read more