Category: Transformation
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Speck to Beam to Cross: Responsive Discipleship
How can we use our external triggers to create internal transformation with eternal impact?
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Transcending Love
If I don’t believe you rejoice in my presence, I will naturally either become desperate for your approval, or find ways to denigrate the worth of your opinion. This is how we sort ourselves into tribes. This is how we feel safe. This is how… we crucify Christ.
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Pandora Unboxed (The Inverse of Narcissism)
This is my quest. This is how I cure my own narcissism. By aligning my identity — my shame and sublimation — with its own undoing.
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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.
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Breaking The Grievance Circuit
SixSeconds EQ is named for the fact that the initial emotional response to an external trigger only lasts about six seconds. I have noticed that certain triggers activate a self-perpetuating “grievance circuit” in my mind. This keeps a narrative justifying my resentment circulating in my mind; because I don’t know…
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Unsolicited Fatherly Advice
Based on everything I have learned over the last several years, here is my current practice for how to confront someone I love that I am concerned about. It reflects many painful learnings about what I have found to be counterproductive, but I am sure there is still room for…
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What if Christ was a Verb?
I recently learned (probably from Seth Godin) that there are two types of roles: certified and performative. Roles defined by certification can be faked; for example, a man can sit in a medical office, examine patients, and give advice without really being a doctor. Conversely, the mere act of executing…
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Prelude to Reconciliation
Type I Response I feel pain Someone just did something I see what they did wrong I blame them for my pain It is because they are broken I try to fix them They do not let me This implies they will cause me more pain I escalate or run…
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Spiritual Kreb’s Cycle
Human bodies run on carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins & minerals, water, and oxygen. What powers the Body of Christ?
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A Different Kind of Mask
Thought for the Week “We are intensely attached,” Matthew Kelly observes, “to being perceived in a positive light, even by people we don’t know and … A Different Kind of Mask
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The Right Holy
What if we as Christians redefined our current understanding of “holiness” to match what God intended in Genesis, and Christ demonstrated in the gospels?
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Redeeming Charlottesville: A Cry of Radical Compassion
O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ: We praise You because You are a good God. In a world that seems filled with brokenness and evil, thank You for taking all that upon Yourself through the cross, so that we might be made whole. Our hearts go out…
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Jim Yost on the DNA of Making Disciples
[Jim Yost, a missionary from the Philippines associated with Cityteam International, spoke in San Jose last Saturday (January 21st) at an event hosted by The Gathering by The Bay. The following are notes from Greg Hosclaw as posted on the d-church mailing list.] Jim freely states, that this is his model, not…
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A Pre-History of the San Francisco Revival
“Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.” – Matthew 26:13 (NLT) April 1st, 2024 A.D. By now, one-quarter of the way through the 21st century, almost everyone has heard of the San Francisco Revival. …
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War Room 2: The War on Shame
Inviting all men who consider themselves disciples of Jesus to join me in a movement to uproot shame from the entire Body of Christ by the year 2040 A.D.
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PRO Church
I belive the primary reason the church in America is not impacting the culture is that we expend most of our time, energy, and money doing many things badly instead of the right things well. We are amateurs competing against professional culture-makers. To address this imbalance, I believe the church needs to…
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LEAD! Syllabus for “Theological Foundations”
In thinking about it, I realized I should take my Curriculum one step further, and actually identify the passages and key learnings for each lesson. Not only will this help ensure I’m on the same page as my pastor, but it would enable others to write some of the lessons…
Radically Happy 