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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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 4
Last weekend, New York Times reporter Ruth Graham held up a mirror to the celebrity culture that formed around former pastor Carl Lentz…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 3
I was gossiping with a friend, but if I called it “processing” and “debriefing”, then it couldn’t be considered gossip, right? It takes…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 2
Something tells me Dietrich Bonhoeffer wouldn’t have been a fan of the Four Spiritual Laws tract. More than 2.5 billion of these tracts…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 1
Self-help pep talks instead of sermons in church. Spiritual leaders intoxicated by access to power. Marrying nationalism with an edited form of Christianity….
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