Archive for June, 2010

Doubts, don’t think it’s not natural.

To quote myself the other day (thanks Emily for pointing it out) “If you have a doubt talk it out.” Hmmm, what was I trying to say? I think what I meant was, “Look, everyone has doubts about things in their life.  By not talking about them it isolates you and makes the doubts stronger.” [...]

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What’s in a gift? A Confession

Reading a blog post from Seth today I was reminded of what ‘gifting’ is really like. Read this little excerpt: A gift certificate from a rich uncle is a present as well, it’s not really a gift. A favor is something we do for someone hoping for an equal or greater favor in return. (Hence [...]

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What to do with Discipleship? An answer to Duct Tape pt1

Thanks to all of you out there that contributed last week on Duct Tape Approach to Discipleship.  There were a lot of good thoughts that were generated from that post.  It is hard for me to pull everyone’s opinions together but in this post I am going to begin to try and do so. For [...]

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My new counseling strategy

Ok so I am usually pretty serious when I write so let me break away from that for a moment. Being an ex therapist I about cried when I saw this clip on Jason’s blog. I can’t tell you how many times I have wanted to do this Michael, don’t get any ideas! On the [...]

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Duct Tape aproach to Discipleship

Well since there are different readers from different perspectives out there let me define discipleship. Helping people become like Jesus. Yeah, not a complicated definition huh? So what I have been thinking about is how do I help people get from point A to point B.  If you are a Leafer that means “Leading People [...]

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