Tag: discipleship
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Why So Much Outrage? Thinking About My Discipleship
Bloomberg had an excellent piece by science journalist Faye Flam titled It's an Outrage! See? Look How Outraged I Am! Her lead is "Science is starting to shed some light on the curiously continuous cycle of moral outrages." Expressions of collective outrage are not particularly new, but it does seem to me that the frequency…
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The Pope and the CEO: John Paul’s Leadership Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard – Book Review
The business world is not an easy place to practice Christian discipleship. Some challenges are obvious, but there are many trapdoors as we journey along the path. How nice it would be to have mentors along the way. Andreas Widmer had just such a mentor. Widmer served as Swiss guard at the Vatican for two…
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Dallas Willard: Taking Theology and Spiritual Disciplines into the Marketplace
This is a wonderful lecture! Two great quotes. On the centrality of how we see "the gospel" and salvation. He has just been speaking about salvation being an invitation to enter the Kingdom of God here and now: "Are we preaching a gospel that has a natural tendency to produce disciples or do we simply…
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Best of It: Methods in Ethics
[Series Index] We have been reviewing John Stackhouse’s book Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World. We now enter part three of the book “Making the Best of It” (Chapters 5-8), where Stackhouse builds his case for Christian realism. Today we will look at chapter five, “Method in Ethics: A Sketch.”…