Apprentice 2 Jesus

Spiritual Formation

  • Finding childLIKE faith and resisting childISH faith

    I have worked my way through Mandy Smith’s excellent book, Unfettered, and come away with so much to process. This comes at the same time I finished a book by Bob Goff called Love Does, and I’m examining my heart and longing to cultivate more trust in God. Read more

  • Choosing real rest

    I’m choosing to ask, “If I really believed the Spirit of the living God is at home in me, making me a child of God right now, how would I live?” Can we handle the kind of intimacy described in Scripture? Our Western preference for safe distance and individual freedom keeps us from receiving what… Read more

  • The beauty of the FULLNESS of God

    “The deeper meaning of the ‘return of the prodigal son’ is the return to God’s womb, the return to the very origins of being, and again echoes Jesus’ exhortation to Nicodemus to be reborn from above… The parable of the prodigal son… is the first and everlasting love of a God who is Father as… Read more

  • In the (current) age of deconstruction, a cry of my heart

    “Whatever version of Christianity we way we’re over is not the true Christian faith. I still long for a place where God reigns, and I still need the Spirit’s power.” — Mandy Smith, Unfettered Read more

  • Light

    So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their… Read more

  • Swept up in his love

    so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, (Eph. 3:17-18) I want my life swept up in… Read more

  • The difficult task of love

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  • The task I have before me

    A few weeks ago I sensed the invitation of the Spirit to dive back into some “book studies” in my Bible study. They wouldn’t be as intense or “technical” as earlier in my life. This time, just dive in and see what the Spirit has to say. My journey for the next amount of time… Read more

  • Treasuring Christ

    For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. (Eph. 1:4) Our calling as followers of Christ is secure. Our calling is sacred. God treasures m. My life is to be spent treasuring him. Read more

  • I need more “pain in the mind”

    In an age of sound bites and Twitter feeds, many Christian leaders are so busy trying to keep up with current events that few of us take time to stop, to study, and to struggle for the sake of teaching God’s people. All too often, we take a side and stick to it without the… Read more