Category Archives: discipleship
Some Suggested Christmas Gifts to Give This Season, and Year Round!
Courtesy of St Francis Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where … Continue reading
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Follow Me
As I was reading John 21:15-19 a few moments ago, where Jesus asks Peter 3 times, “Do you love me?” I was struck anew by Jesus’ final statement at the end of that discourse: “Follow me.” I can recall at … Continue reading
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Write Letters…and Meet Face to Face
Two things prompt this post. One was an 8 hour trip I took with two members of the community in which I live to a meeting in Indy yesterday. It was a great time and we shared freely. We also … Continue reading
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Don and Betty Draper need help
I have become a fan of AMC’s Madmen, a wonderfully staged dramatic series set in NYC of the early 60’s around a fictional ad agency. The lead male and female characters, played by Jon Hamm and January Jones, are Don … Continue reading
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One of My Daily Prayers
This past summer I took the month of July off from Facebook and Twitter and spent time reading several books including Gary Thomas’ Sacred Pathways. It is a book that identifies nine different paths of faith development. At the end … Continue reading
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Quiet: A Necessary Commodity
I am currently in the midst of a six sermon series on Matthew 14:22-33 which is the story of Jesus walking on the water. I am focusing on the fear issue in the passage and Christ’s role in aleviating the … Continue reading
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The hardness of change… and apologizing
It is wonderful how things that you are reading and thinking about suddenly do an emergent dance in your mind and you see connections that are those wonderful and serendipitous, ‘ah ha!’ moments. (Some of those connections are God moments … Continue reading
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Reflections on failure
Back in the 80’s it seemed many books had titles begin with ‘A Theology of…’ For a while now, I have thought someone needs to write a book (or article) with the words ‘A Theology of Failure,’ in it. Well, … Continue reading
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The Value of Good Work
Having just read Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future, I am thinking about what Gardner said about the importance of kids and good work. In writing about the ethical mind Gardner writes on page 130, “The attainment of an … Continue reading
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Character and Personality
In the introduction to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steve Covey makes this statement: In more than 25 years of working with people in business, university, and marriage and family settings, I have come in contact with many … Continue reading
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