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  • Rohanjali’s Minion Prayer

    Rohanjali’s Minion Prayer

    Fall 2015 Dear God, Thank you that we can be your minions. Help us control our anger and let go of what we want so we can show everyone how good and strong a boss you are. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

  • Toward a Discipling Church

    Vision Becoming, Making, and Gathering Disciples of Jesus Who do Better than Us

  • Open to God: Holiness in Four Syllables

    Third in an accidental series on Childlike Theology, after the Gospel and Discipleship

  • Make Us Like Jesus: Discipleship in Five Syllables

    A proposed process for fully fleshing-out the Six Syllable Gospel: as part of an accidental series on Childlike Theology: Join together to ask God to make us like Jesus. Interpret everything that happens as God answering that prayer. There is no step 3.

  • 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…

  • Anjali Summer 2015 Prayer

    DEAR GOD, HELP ME HAVE FUN. BLESS MY NEW TEACHERS. MAKE ME LIKE JESUS. AMEN.

  • Rohan’s Summer 2015 Prayer

    Dear God, Thank you for such a fun summer. Help me to do a good job in Pinocchio, and have fun with old and new friends at Summer Camps. Help Daddy to bring the Kingdom of God to his new job at Matterport. Help Mommy to enjoy the time she…

  • The Lord’s Prayer for Children

    Our Father in heaven, help us to honor your name. Come and set up your kingdom, so that everyone on earth will obey you, as you are obeyed in heaven. Give us each day the food we need. Forgive us for doing wrong, as we forgive others. Keep us from…

  • Rohan’s Spring 2015 Prayer

    Dear God, Thank you for this new season in our family’s life. Thank you for Daddy’s new job.  Please help us all adjust to our new schedules.  Teach us how you love us in new ways. Help us find ways to show that love to other people.  In Jesus name, Amen.

  • Rohan’s Baptismal Creed

    Dear God, I confess that you love me better than I can ever love myself. Please forgive me for putting myself first instead of loving you with all my heart, soul, mind and strength, and my neighbor as myself. I am sorry for not listening to and obeying you, and…

  • Mrs. Charming’s Castle, Act I

    The gnomes invaded the continent almost exactly one year after Prince Kit Charming married Cinderella, now known as Princess Ella. “My son,” said the King. “While I gladly gave you a year to enjoy life with your beautiful bride, It is now time for you to take on the duties…

  • Anjali’s Daughter Prayer

    Dear God, I want everyone to know I am your precious daughter. Thank you for loving me and giving me everything I need. Help me to treat everyone kindly even when I don’t get my way. Please make me like Jesus. Amen.

  • A Sinner’s Prayer for Peace

    Dear God, You are Good. Really. I mean it. I am not.

  • Rohan’s Fruit Prayer

    Dear God, I need your help. Please fill me with your Holy Spirit. Teach me self-control. Show me your love, joy, peace & patience. Help me be a kind, good, gentle and faithful friend. I ask this in Jesus name, Amen. Inspired by Galatians 5.

  • Lenten Prayer 2015: Make Me Like Jesus

    Dear God, Thank you that you love us like Jesus. Thank you for laying down your life so that we can be forgiven and find our glory in you. Thank you for sending us into the world to save those we love and you love. Thank you for your Transforming…

  • From the Kingdom to the Cross: A Confession

    I think we’ve missed something. To be fair, everyone else in the gospels — the crowds, the disciples, even John the Baptist — also missed it. But that’s still no excuse. Especially since we have their example. We have forgotten the cross of Christ.

  • God Loves Us Like Jesus: A Six Syllable Gospel (Childlike Theology)

    [Now part 1 of 6 in a series on Childlike Theology] Since my son’s second set of seasons, I’ve sought a scalable summary of the gospel. Something simple enough to be sung by a six-year-old, yet sufficiently sophisticated to stun seminarians for centuries. Here’s my most successful statement so far: God Loves Us…

  • Our Daddy’s Prayer

    This is not The Lord’s Prayer. This is just our Daddy’s prayer.

  • Institutions

    How can you scale to change the world? In a word: Institutions. A word that is largely despised today, but at the root of almost all long-term successes. Our culture caricatures institutions as slow, bureaucratic, and dehumanizing. But institutions are what makes us what we are. Some institutions were created by…

  • Anjali’s Princess Prayer

    Dear God, Thank you for making me your special princess! Teach me to trust and obey my parents and teachers who love me as you do So I can help my friends feel special too! In Jesus name, Amen.