A medieval baker with his 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 of scrip­ture, where to find the real guid­ance I would need.  After all, isn’t it impor­tant that I am pre­pared to show my son by exam­ple the abil­ity that he is to master?

Rep­re­sented here is the col­lec­tion of thoughts and prac­tices as I lead my son into and through what it means to be a dis­ci­ple of Jesus, the sav­iour of his soul.

“…make every effort to sup­ple­ment your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowl­edge, and knowl­edge with self-control, and self-control with stead­fast­ness, and stead­fast­ness with god­li­ness, and god­li­ness with broth­erly affec­tion, and broth­erly affec­tion with love. For if these qual­i­ties are yours and are increas­ing, they keep you from being inef­fec­tive or unfruit­ful in the knowl­edge of our Lord Jesus Christ.“
(2 Peter 1:5–8 ESV)