If we’re “sick” of our domesticated Christianity, maybe it’s because we’re sequestered somewhere in the center instead of living out on the edge where the action is, where our friendship with Jesus is best and our chances of enticing others into his friendship is maximized. It’s out there on the daring edge where we’re most …
Mature Christians Dig for Deeper Revelation
“If on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.” It’s not like he was saying, “If you disagree with me, God’ll show you!” I don’t get from Paul that it was his way or the highway. He just knew that the way to follow Christ in a mature way …
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Mature Christians Renounce Barren Religion
"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead..." Spirituality wears many disguises. It’s best one is “religion.” Pharisees are the same yesterday, today, and forever. They can imitate spiritual depth with the best of them. They appear to doggedly press into the heart of things, when they are actually just working to …
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I Need Your Help!
As you can see, I’ve just published a new book called Reaching Rahab and I need your help to get the word out. I wrote it for an audience to include, but exceed, my own immediate sphere of friends and family in order to inspire Christians of all types to influence others toward Jesus. …
Mature Christians Join Jesus In His Suffering
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings” So, the experience of resurrection, that we spoke about in the last post, comes with a price, a huge price. It’s called the cross. Remember how Jesus beckoned us to take up our own cross and follow …
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