Apprentice 2 Jesus

  • Our comfort in grief

    I am currently reading through Job and it is a fresh read using the New Living Translation, which isn’t my normal translation. It’s helped me stay engaged. This reading is also helping me remember different places where I’ve heard teaching or sermons and this particular passage from Job 23 was one: Read more

  • Reading with pen in hand

    I ran across an article about Richard Nixon’s method of reading books with a pen so he could write in the margins. (HERE) There was this quote from John Adams: Read more

  • The devaluing of life

    Somehow the “red states” think they are “pro-life” and will still find ways to kill people. Read more

  • The direction of faith

    Where do we LOOK? It’s not about “how much” faith. It’s a matter of where we look IN faith. Matthew 17:14-21 The secret, of course, is that the size of the faith isn’t important; what’s important is the God in whom you believe. If you want to see the moon, the size of the window… Read more

  • Learning to “quit” books

    A discipline I’ve had to learn later in life is when to STOP reading a book. Too often I felt “obligated” to finish a book once I had started it. I would often read a book because it had come highly recommended and I wanted to plow through it, but it was just a huge… Read more

  • Tim Keller — ministry shifts he engaged

    I am working my way through Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen. Read more

  • Book review — The Multiplier’s Mindset

    It is a nice thing when I read something and actually KNOW the author. Cynthia Anderson and her husband Todd have been good friends of ours for a long time. Their ministry has been great to support and when we are together we continue to be sharpened by these friends. Her new book, The Multiplier’s… Read more

  • The gift of character

    In a time when character has not even been the conversation when it comes to politics and solving big issues, Mitt Romney has put it on full display as a senator and leader. He leaves the Senate after one term and is talking honestly about what we’ve known all along: the GOP has become the… Read more

  • Antisemitism and the fallacy of “free speech”

    When Elon Musk was finalizing the takeover of Twitter last year, someone asked me what that meant. I said, “It’s the owner of nuclear dump site buying a dumpster fire and saying, ‘I can make this better.’” Powerful people can’t help themselves. They buy up avenues in which they want to “say things” and then… Read more

  • What has formed you? (The flip side)

    I asked the question HERE about the good things that have formed our lives. The other day I was reminded of a question that was posed about the things around us and how they form us. There is formation going on all the time. As Dallas Willard would say, “Everyone gets an education. It’s just… Read more