Faith & Discipleship
Growing in faith, spiritual formation, and Christian maturity.
Articles
Discipleship Is Not a Program:
What Jesus Actually Did
Contrasting the modern six-week discipleship program with Jesus's actual method of life-on-life formation, using the repeated failures of the Twelve as evidence that Jesus shaped people through experience, not curriculum.
Doubting Thomas Was Not the Problem:
Faith and Honest Doubt
A rehabilitation of Thomas — who asked for the same evidence the other disciples already received — arguing that honest doubt expressed in community is far healthier than suppressed doubt, drawing on Os Guinness, Karl Barth, and the biblical pattern of God meeting faith-doubters.
The Spiritual Disciplines Are Not About Earning God's Love
Using Dallas Willard's 'training, not trying' framework to show why spiritual disciplines make sense not as works that earn God's love but as the gymnasium in which we are shaped to receive what God freely gives.