Category: Spiritual Disciplines

  • God Forgives Like You Do

    God Forgives Like You Do

    What if I told you that God forgives in the same way as you do? Almost 20 years ago, I had a rough exit from a church that I was leading.  I knew that I was walking into a tough situation but felt clearly that God had led me there.  Although I was a seasoned…

  • One Thing is Necessary

    One Thing is Necessary

    For years I have been mentoring/discipling men.  One of my great blessing in life was to come to faith in a discipleship culture.  Not only was discipleship expected but it was codified.  By that I mean that my mentors were very practical in their thinking about how to make disciples and helping leaders practically disciple…

  • Why I Stopped Trying to Memorize the Bible!

    Why I Stopped Trying to Memorize the Bible!

    As a young believer I was exposed to the spiritual discipline of Scripture Memory.  I can remember sitting in my living room with one of my mentors as we pulled scripture references out of jar and quoted the verse written on small piece of papers and checked  one another from memory.  We had tackled the Navigator’s famous TMS…

  • Spiritual Disciplines: Write a commentary

    Spiritual Disciplines: Write a commentary

    Who me? I can’t write a commentary.  That is for the spiritual giants right?  How do you think the giants got big?  They processed large chunks of Scripture and then wrote down their comments (commentary) on what they thought it meant.  For those of you stuck in an endless loop of reading and trying to…