Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapters 14-17
Tom Wolfe wrote an essay in 1976 called “The New Man and the Me Decade“. He described the narcissism he saw driving much…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapters 12-13
Ted (not his real name) saw me as a rival, set me up for failure, then watched from the sidelines as his manipulative…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapters 9-11
(1) The soccer ball was kicked by the player. (2) The player kicked the soccer ball. Sentence #1 is written in the passive…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapters 7 and 8
“The Old Testament God is punitive and judgmental. The New Testament God is merciful and loving.” A couple of years, megachurch pastor Andy…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 6
I admit it. My relatively comfortable life in America gave me a distorted lens through which I used to read the Beatitudes, the opening…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 5
Just because you’re standing in a kitchen doesn’t make you a toaster. Or a Pop-Tart. When I hear people tell me that their…
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