I e-mailed in the second book to Thomas Nelson Publishers today. It was fun, this time around, to focus on discipleship and the pursuit of God from a contemporary perspective. Stay tuned–this book will be out in January 2015!
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“I find that doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans.” George MacDonald
I love this quote by the late theologian Richard Niebuhr. “Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past,
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a writer, speaker, native of North Carolina, and a graduate of Eastern University and Duke Divinity School. In 2003, Jonathan and his wife Leah founded the Rutba House, a house of hospitality where the formerly homeless are welcomed into a community that eats, prays, and shares life together. Jonathan directs the School
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“If anyone thinks he is Christian and yet is indifferent towards his being a Christian, then he really is not one at all. What would we think of a man who affirmed that he was in love and also that it was a matter of indifference to him?” Søren Kierkegaard
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As the new year begins and I’m making plans for the year, it’s become clear to me that there are three kinds of people in this world. Those who create… those who copy… and those who criticize. After over a decade in ministry it’s obvious that some people are passionate and always seeking to improve, innovate, collaborate and create. I’d
My friend from back in my Clemson University days, Natalee Whitesell , set out on an exciting and sometimes frightening discovery of her true identity over the last few years. Her journey has led to a deep hope that we can all learn from and her book, Dismantling Taboo, tells the story of how she found that
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Guest Post by Peter Goodwin Heltzel Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic Discipleship continues to inspire my own walk of Christian discipleship. I am struck by Bonhoeffer’s total surrender to God and commitment to the Confessing Church movement, keeping the flames of prophetic Christianity alive in Nazi Germany. The Protestant Reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin forged a theology of
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You can only do so much. It is a phrase I’ve been saying to others recently and one many have been reciting to me. You can only do so much. In modern life, we carry a full load—instead of three or four categories in life, it’s fifteen or sixteen. Under normal circumstances, when one slice
Every year as I reflect back on the past year and work on plans for the upcoming year, I remember the dream I wrote for Antioch in the Summer of 2006. God has done amazing things in 2013 and I’m looking forward to 2014. —————————————————————— OUR DREAM :: THE VISION THAT DRIVES US It is the
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