Apprentice 2 Jesus

  • The power of Pentecost

    Pentecost Sunday is coming. Some thoughts from NT Wright: …when it comes to Pentecost it’s far more important that you’re out there in the wind, letting it sweep through your life, your heart, your imagination, your powers of speech, and transform you from a listless or lifeless believer into someone whose heart is on fire… Read more

  • Creating what is good

    David Brooks draws from Howard Thurman’s book Jesus and the Disinherited to discuss how to create deep change in our communities. (HERE) Basically, it is hard work. It is worthy work. Read more

  • Pray… even when it’s hard

    I have been challenged in my prayer time and Bible reading time to engage on a journey of intercession for the American Church. I would like to think I’m just getting prepped to challenge others to pray for the American Church so I can just pass it off. I just finished Nancy French’s new book,… Read more

  • Away with violence

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  • What we miss in “praying for our nation”

    So he said he would destroy them—had not Moses, his chosen one,stood in the breach before himto keep his wrath from destroying them. Psalm 106:23 (NIV) Last week was the National Day of Prayer. It is a designated time to pray for our nation. More times than can be counted, prayers were offered for America… Read more

  • The command to love is our call

    Our gospel reading for Sunday is John 15:9-17. NT Wright contrasts the texts of laying down one’s life for another and the abuse of that verse in the context of a nation sending soldiers to war. Read more

  • To know Christ fully

    God wishes to be known, and is pleased that we should rest in him; for all that is beneath him is not enough for us; and this is the reason why no soul is at rest until it counts as nothing all that is created. When a soul has made itself as nothing for love,… Read more

  • I want to walk carefully in the ways of God

    Deuteronomy 6:4–5 (NIV): Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. There is a saying I’ve heard repeated: I listen twice as much as I speak for I have two ears and one… Read more

  • The dangers of chants and quick slogans

    The activism and chants of antisemitism and anti-Muslim are dangerous. We need to pay attention. Christians, though, ought to be especially attentive to what’s happening to a society that increasingly seems, on the horseshoe extremes of the populist right and the activist left, to be driven toward the pull of the channeled rage of the… Read more

  • Worth your time

    “My job is to give myself to Jesus. His job is to transform me.” John Mark Comer in THIS INTERVIEW . When what you thought was “conservative” and “evangelical” turns dark, where do you go and what do you do? Nancy French shares her powerful story HERE. Some thoughts on Beyonce’s new album from some… Read more