• Maintaining Tools

    Skipping Steps

    As I walk through my own jour­ney, try­ing to yield to God’s Holy Spirit, I am see­ing in me the self-determined man try­ing to con­tend with all that is in my path. In this con­tention, I am still con­founded by the real­iza­tion that as I gather my tools around me to tutor my appren­tice, I myself have adopted short­cuts…
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    A Jostled Vessel

    This past week­end, I was talk­ing to my appren­tice about char­ac­ter and the great poten­tial it brings, if we were truly sur­ren­dered to God. Sur­ren­dered as if we were empty ves­sels. I used ves­sels in the sense that we have capac­ity to be poured into and then poured out. Imper­fect ves­sels as we are, with­out holes (in…
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    The Disciples’ Apprentice

    Since the news came in 1999 that I would be a father, increas­ingly as the birth day loomed, I began to soberly con­sider the respon­si­bil­ity that lay before me. Raise a mod­ern day dis­ci­ple of Jesus. As a fol­lower of Christ, I knew the respon­si­bil­ity that was expected of me; how­ever, I was not pre­pared and mostly unsure, out­side…
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