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Discipleship from Mark 1
There are so many churches doing so many different things today and calling it all “discipleship.” What are the basic elements of discipleship? With Mark 1 as a framework, see three essential elements of discipleship as practiced by Jesus.
Pastor as soldier
An outline from Jon’s sermon in the chapel at Lutheran Brethren Seminary (Fergus Falls, MN). Being a pastor is like being a soldier according to Paul.
Pastoring as action or reaction
I face a question nearly every single day. It is not a verbal question clearly articulated by a live human being. It is not a theoretical question that I have heard discussed among practicing pastors. Instead, it is an insistent and insurgent seed of doubt that lurks throughout my typical day of pastoring. It is More >
Big assumptions
Part 1 in the World At War series, on sin and how to fight it.
Sin. As you read that one short word, a flood of meaning flashes through your consciousness. It may not be related to belief in God or anything theological. Perhaps your understanding of the word is related to how More >
The significance of now
Image by funkandjazz via Flickr
“The conversations of men generally make it manifest that they know not their time. They do many things which they would not do, and they neglect many things which they would certainly practice, if they knew what times are near them.”
Increase Mather, quoted in The American Puritans (ed. Perry Miller, Doubleday, More >
