Category Archives: discipleship

On Christian discipleship.

Christendom redux

Theocracies are not new, of course. They spring up all throughout history (and literature), sometimes as a result of a group that sees itself as a “remnant” and splits off from a larger religious culture, and sometimes they come about … Continue reading

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Prayer, The Force, Energy, and Causality

First, I think I need to start this entry by saying that I’m a personal believer in prayer (although I must confess that I didn’t really know how to pray until I was forty, even though I grew up in … Continue reading

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All I Ever Wanted to Be

Let’s begin with a confession: All I ever wanted to be was a Sunday School teacher.  Not that my earliest experiences with Sunday School were positive ones.  Actually, I can’t remember a single teacher from those early years when my … Continue reading

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Transformation With Time

This past weekend I headed off with Matthew, my 10 year old son, for a father-son weekend at Camp Piankatank. We’ve been for four years and we always look forward to it. We get to play sports, canoe, swim, practice … Continue reading

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World’s Greatest Christian Educators: JOHN WESLEY

In the history of modern education, John Wesley (1703-1791) holds a special place when it comes to the religious education of children.

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I want to be unfriendly and irrelevant

In a previous post (“Communion Rant”) we talked about the penchant of certain preachers for “explaining” communion. Some argue that it is necessary because, they reason, some people in the congregation, and especially visitors and the recently unchurched, do not … Continue reading

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