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Tag: discipline

  • The Missing “Spirit-Led Life” Manual

    The Missing “Spirit-Led Life” Manual

    Pogue: (stands, exasperated) Stop! Do you hear yourselves? Grace. Effort. Dishes. You’re all clutching your agendas like brand logos. Meanwhile, the Spirit’s been standing right there the whole time!

  • Listen to the Trees: Steve Jobs Keynote at the Millennium Design Conference

    Listen to the Trees: Steve Jobs Keynote at the Millennium Design Conference

    The four trees — Fig, Olive, Pomegranate, Apple — serve as living models of grace-bearing systems, each representing a different mode of transformation and contribution. Together, they form a holistic blueprint for designing resilient and regenerative human systems.

  • Poem: Goodly Evil

    How God in His goodness may lead Us faster through lands where we bleed

  • Poem: Train vs Wreck

    For if we shirk the pain of The cross which we must bear We place it upon others And our relations tear

  • Dream: Unboxed

    Dream: Unboxed

    Our church may need to move. The dogs represent 
Our unmanaged problems 
Or unresolved issues.

  • What Discipleship Is (and Isn’t)

    It is about submitting every thought — and emotion! — to Christ, so we more consistently manifest the Fruit of the Spirit.

  • Dream: Swordfighter’s Puzzle

    Dream: Swordfighter’s Puzzle

    A group of us Decided to learn sword fighting Mostly on a whim But recently Something happened That made a couple of us Take it more seriously

  • TGR-S5E3: Shared Selah (DBS v2)

    As followers of Jesus, we invite you to learn along with us on The Great Reset (Tuesdays 1 PM Pacific) as we are discipled by scripture to love more like Jesus. Question: How can we all get better at obeying Scripture, instead of just discussing it? Perspective: By making time…

  • TGR-S3E5: Practicing Relational Unity

    We pivot our discussion of the Biastes Co-Discipleship Network, for the 1pm PST Tuesday, Aug 4, 2020 episode of The Great Reset, to take on the challenge of creating relational unity. Two Questions What about the Body of Christ most breaks the heart of God? What is the impossible thing…

  • What Makes Spiritual Maturity?

    [Based on a letter to my cousin-in-law, who runs a seminary in Chicago.] Most seminaries focus on: Pastoral vision and skills Theological knowledge Community and relationships Those are all good things. But are they the right things?

  • An Ode to My Personal Trainer

    For Steve Hernandez. One day after the first workout: I hate you. You make me do things I don’t want to do. My muscles ache.  My joints creak.  My steps are slow. I feel ten years older. One month after the first workout: I feel ten years younger. My muscles are stronger.…

  • Meet the Dragons of Knight Club

    The great challenge of manhood is learning to harness our emotions to serve a good purpose. As I mentioned earlier, I believe we need to harness (not slay) these Four Dragons of Manhood: Desire, Fear, Anger & Pride.  Here’s a more comprehensive summary of my current understanding: Dragons Color Green Yellow…

  • LEAD! C.5 Studying Scripture

    The Word of God is a lamp to our feet — but only if we know how to turn it on and where to shine it. Memory Verse: “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of…

  • LEAD! C.1 Desire and Discipline

    True discipline is neither rigid nor legalistic, but a formalization of our heart’s desire to appropriate the “name” of God — His person, purpose, and character. Discipline is the living skeleton which hosts the muscles of Faith, the marrow of Love, and the sinews of Hope. Memory Verse: “Therefore we…