Radically Happy

Tag: heart

  • AECN for Jesus: Jessian Discipleship

    Discipling By Jesus aims to become an: Amateur Experiential Curious Network of people who practice denying themselves, taking up their cross, and follow Jesus.

  • The Post-COVID Church

    Right now, most churches devote at least six-sevenths of their budget, staff, and attention to what happens on Sundays, and at most one-seventh to helping the congregation follow Jesus the other six days. Can you imagine what we might accomplish if we flipped that on its head, and invested 85%…

  • Lesson 6/6 Joy (Anjali’s Catechism)

    Spiritual Maturity: Thanks God made all of us on purpose. We are happy when we obey that purpose. We become happier the better we understand and live out that purpose. We share many purposes with other people, because God made us the same: Our bodies are happy when we eat…

  • Song: No Longer Alone

    This is a song I wrote back in 1996 in my post-college, pre-Apple days in Pasadena, California. It was for a girl I knew — heck, it fit pretty much all the girls I hung out with and/or was interested in during that decade. I also sang it during a…

  • LEAD! C.8 Submission and Service

    In Which… The discipline of submitting ourselves to serve others, when done properly, brings us near the heart of Christ — and forces us to confront our pride and sloth. Memory Verse: “verse” — 2 Corinthians 4:1 (NKJV)

  • 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! B.10 From Lust to Purity

    Understanding why our desires are often at war with God, and how they must be cleansed and harnessed for His purposes — before they destroy us.

  • LEAD! B.4 From Folly to Love

    Folly is a cycle of self-punishment disguised as the pursuit of pleasure. The only way out is to receive God’s love, to the point where we love Him more than the false gods to which we’ve enslaved ourselves.

  • LEAD! B.1 From Humanism to Wisdom

    The humanity of the Simple, Mocker, and Fool versus the fear of God’s Wisdom. Defines wisdom as the ability to live out God’s name, and virtue as the different facets of wise character.

  • Twelve Steps to Arrow-Proof Your Ministry

    Apologies for the pretentious title, but I wanted to challenge myself to identify and reorganize the lessons we covered in last year’s leadership class into a coherent prescription for facing down “Ministry Killers”.