by Jesse Richardson | Mar 28, 2012 | Blog, Jesse Richardson
Article by: Jonathan Dodson Missional is not an event we tack onto our already busy lives. It is our life. Mission should be the way we live, not something we add onto life: “As you go, make disciples….”; “Walk wisely towards outsiders”; “Let your speech always be...
by Jesse Richardson | Mar 27, 2012 | Blog, Jesse Richardson
On the night that our Savior was betrayed, he did something astonishing. Here’s the narrative from John 13: Jesus . . . rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to...
by Jesse Richardson | Mar 26, 2012 | Blog, Jesse Richardson
SELF-ASSURED OR FEARFUL? Are you a self-assured risk taker? Or are you passive and fearful? These seem like opposing traits. But according to the Gospels, Peter was all of these things—sometimes all within a single day. Peter’s waffling tendencies seem like the stuff...
by Jesse Richardson | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog, Jesse Richardson
Wait—stop reading. Look up from this post and fasten your eyes on something else and then come back to your reading. Do you see that in one very important sense, that’s all that God has required of you? The shifting of your eyes from this post to another object...
by Jesse Richardson | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog, Jesse Richardson
The Latin word sola means “alone” or “only.” The Five Solas are five Latin phrases (or slogans) that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and that summarize the Reformers’ basic theological convictions on what they believed to be the...
