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Fourth in a series on discipleship in the church. See part 1, part 2, part 3. In my last post I said that the process of a disciple becoming like the teacher involves at minimum two things: talking about the things the teacher talks about, and doing the things the teacher instructs the disciple to do. The...
This is part 3 in my look at discipleship in the church. See part 1 and part 2. In 2006 ago I got the chance to do something that I had wanted to do for a while, and that was learn how to build acoustic guitars. I attended a two-week workshop at Vermont Instruments and came home with a guitar that I built...
Second in a series on discipleship in the church. Click here for part 1. So many of the discipleship programs I have been through have focused on teaching me to do religious things like prayer, Bible study, and tithing. These are all good things to do. But here’s the thing that stands out to me as I read...
This is the first in a series of posts on discipleship in the church My dad taught me to tithe. When I was a kid my dad gave me an allowance of 25 cents a week, back when 25 cents was…okay, my dad was cheap. But he tithed; still does. And he taught me that I needed to tithe: to give 10% of my income to...
When I am building an acoustic guitar, I mess up all the time. This is always frustrating, though I am learning that it is also natural. Even the best, most experienced luthiers mess up. I don’t like to take pleasure in another person’s misfortune, but I am actually encouraged by this. It tells me that it’s...
Soon after arriving with our church’s mission team at Turtle Shores, a Christian mission and retreat center in Belize, I had an interesting conversation with Sarah Bradbury, one of the resident missionaries who worked alongside us. Sarah told me that she had been doing a lot of reading in the Bible about...
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I am a lifelong student of the Bible, and have been a pastor for over twenty-five years. My desire through this blog is to help people see things in the intersection of Scripture and real life that they might have missed. The careless handling of the Bible is causing a lot of problems in our churches and our culture--and is literally turning people away from the church, and, sometimes, God. I hope to treat Scripture with the respect it deserves, and, even if you don't agree with what I say, give you some insight.
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