John Wesley begins the concluding paragraph of his third discourse on the Sermon on the Mount in this way: “Behold Christianity in its native form; as delivered by its great Author! This is the genuine religion of Jesus Christ.” When
Those Pesky Passions
I recently published a book on spiritual maturity and I’m going try to develop the habit of blogging regularly about themes related to the book. This post is one and it touches on a very personal struggle. I continue to
Aiming at Maturity | Online with Me
I would love for you to join me in an online workshop I am doing with the book, Aiming at Maturity, which I wrote about a year ago. If you would like to engage with me and others in thinking
It Still Comes Down to the Kind of Person You Are
Riding home for a quick lunch yesterday, I heard part of an NPR broadcast, detailing David Hoffman’s book, The Dead Hand. A correspondent for the Washington Post, Hoffman has chronicled Cold War relations between the then Soviet Union and the
The Problem of Mixed Motives
I’ve been talking to people lately about a roadblock that I think I see in spiritual growth. It looks like a two-step process: (1) “get” (understand) the principle and then (2) “apply” it, which means to incorporate it into our,