Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
The Bible has come to life for you in ways you’ve never experienced before. It’s almost like you’re seeing Genesis 1 and 2 for the first time, realizing that we’re made to be makers, commissioned to be God’s image bearers by taking up our God-given labor of culture-making. It’s as if someone gave you a new decoder ring for reading the prophets. You
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
To be before we do, to follow the crucified—not the “Americanized”—Jesus, to embrace God’s gift of limits, to discover the treasures buried in grief and loss, to make love the core measure of maturity, to break the power of the past, and to lead out of weakness and vulnerability.
Peter Scazzero • Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation
Discipleship, we might say, is a way to curate your heart, to be attentive to and intentional about what you love. So discipleship is more a matter of hungering…
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
