If you want to improve your experience of life, then deliberately change your thinking. That’s why Proverbs 4:23 says, “Above all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life.” In Jewish thought, the heart was the center of thinking. The Apostle Paul taught a great deal about how a Christian is to […]
God has fashioned you for family. And to get back to the basics of discipleship, you’ve got to get into intentional community with a few other believers in order to experience family as God intended it, like the first disciples who “devoted themselves to the fellowship.” (Acts 2:42) As you do, you will not only […]
One of the big obstacles hindering our journey of discipleship is thinking that the goal of Christianity is simply to make it into heaven. The point of salvation is not merely to get us there someday — that’s our destination, and one day we’ll wake up in heaven, to our great delight. But our destination […]
Colossians 2:7 calls us to be “Rooted and built up in Christ, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.” As we begin the new year, God is calling us to return to the basics of discipleship and take very intentional steps to grow into the likeness of His Son, Jesus […]