Discipleship

What is it that you seek out first and foremost? When you wake what comes to mind? Or who comes to mind? Are your thoughts Everything-Else-Plus-God or God-Period? It is…

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.1When Jesus was asked how to pray, he said, Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven…

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.”1 It is difficult to grasp intellectually God’s holiness—purity, moral excellency, rectitude, honor, truth and righteousness, uncreated and eternal.…

The story continues. This time focusing on the older son. It starts with Now . . . ,1 signaling a shift—Jesus exhibits a contrast. Coming in from the field the…

The story begins with Jesus relating a parable of a man who had two sons. He starts with the younger son, who asked the father for his share of the…

All throughout Scripture we find the declaration, “Thus says the LORD.” We were fashioned with ears that we may hear; yet, we numb our sense of hearing. As a loving…

Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry—[2 Timothy 4:11]. Having a winner working along-side you is every leader’s desire. Where did…

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah1Differing from animals we are created in the image of God.2 We are body,…

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places—[Ephesians 1:3]So when God desired to…

And they devoted themselves to the apostle’s teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.1Evidently, the root word for devoted is vote. Intuitively, if you are…