Discipleship and Reality - Part 13

Let's think today about what it means to submit to the guidance and power of God -- to accept him as Lord. Accepting him as Savior is a once-and-for-all decision; you don't have to be concerned about repeating it. But his Lordship is another matter, because  

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Back in the 80s, I worked for a time as policy writer and adviser for the chairman of the bank that is now JP Morgan Chase. He had a cool idea

Patience in Discipleship Part 10 - The Great World within You

We read quite a bit in the business magazines and books about passion, a word that for quite a while was seen mostly on the front pages of the tabloids.

Discipleship and the Promises - Part 12

Have you ever thought, "Well, I'll be content if I just get past this particular difficulty or task or day or person..." Can we ever get to a point where we can take just one hour and make it gloriously rich? Can you imagine doing that hour after hour after hour? I took that phrase "gloriously rich" from Frank Laubach, the literacy pioneer who popularized the phrase "each one teach one" (not a bad motto for peer mentoring!).

Discipleship for This Moment - Part 11

It is natural to think of virtue more in terms of courage than in terms of patience. It would be difficult to make a movie that spotlights someone who does nothing but wait. And yet, patience is the virtue that some of us need the most -- and we need it now!

Discipleship and Purity of Desire - Part 9 - The Spirit Helps Us to Pray

Do you have a character weakness that causes you to desire something that isn’t good or to feel either repugnance or indifference toward something that is good?  Hear the late 19th-Century New Yorker, Henry Ward Beecher:

Discipleship and Character - Part 8 - The Reciprocal Turning

Many Christians, in their struggles with character-related issues, find that they fall into a cycle of fall/confess/fall/confess – to the point where they are depressed when they consider what God must of think of them.  They might even become fatalistic about it, assuming they have a certain character flaw in the same way that another person has a facial disfigurement.

The great paradox of our era is that while incomes have risen over the past few decades, so have rates of social dysfunction and emotional depression. We are quite reasonable to seek to improve our lot in life, but we have no means of counterbalancing the forces of social isolation that more than offset the value of material benefits.