Dancing with truth and peace
Tuesday
May 2014
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Jennings, Posted in Your Church
Paul, Priscilla, Aquila and Apollos bled discipleship. They embodied its three stages: be fed, feed self and feed others. Acts 18:23-28, which details their work together, uses no fewer than eighteen words/phrases bursting with discipleship implications. If you want to write a book about discipleship, the following would make great chapters: Spending time Traveled Strengthening all […]
Wednesday
April 2014
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Jennings, Posted in Your Church
God comes to us in grace, but prods us to move forward. He meets us where we are, but like he did with Zacchaeus, he shines light on a new path and asks us to start walking. Neutral is not an option in the Christian life. God keeps nudging us forward. While in Chicago last […]
Tuesday
April 2014
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Jennings, Posted in Blog, Lead Yourself
They looked like slugs! Giant, squishy, juicy slugs! I eat and enjoy most foods, but not mushrooms. So when George and Olive, my host family in Australia, set a heaping plate of mushrooms in front of me, my heart sank. I had powered through pizzas and casseroles peppered with mushrooms many times. But the menacing […]
Saturday
January 2014
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Jennings, Posted in Your Church
This helpful image was too good to not pass along. (Thanks, Erica Foster, for designing it for us). Jesus gave his disciples very clear marching orders in Acts 1:8 (you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea….”). The rest of the book goes on to tell how they followed these instructions. We’ll be using this image […]
Saturday
January 2014
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Jennings, Posted in Blog, Your Church
A few months ago, some leaders from Highland Park Christian Church entered a space of vulnerability with each other. We were discussing discipleship (the process of helping someone follow Christ – not just initially but continually, becoming more and more like him, throughout their whole life). We confessed that at different times in our lives, […]
