Would you consider yourself a “disciple” of Jesus? One of my favorite faith blogs this week posed the question: Would we be better off resurrecting this biblical term rather than continuing to use the ...
In an age marked by skepticism, apathy, and radical individualism, how can discipleship form whole, mature believers ...
In the foreword to Just War as Christian Discipleship, Lieutenant Colonel Scott A. Sterling, an army chaplain, recounts a conversation he had with a female officer in Iraq who was eager to make moral ...
Long, long ago Socrates came up with this interesting statement: “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Today this thought is just as valid and true, except that I would prefer to turn it around ...
Why changing hearts is hard and how Christ overcomes that. When I left university, I was a budding conservationist armed with good intentions, theoretical head knowledge, and an enthusiasm to change ...
With a 60-year lease agreement coming to an end, a building on prominent church property will be deconsecrated in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma Disciples Center, 301 NW 36, will be deconsecrated during ...
I was denominationally adrift in college. I attended Christmas and Easter services at my parents’ United Methodist church, flirted with Unitarianism, worshiped in silence with Quakers, and worked for ...
Sunday, May 1, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year C). Mass Readings: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Psalm 67:2-3; 5, 6, 8; Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29. The Sixth Sunday of Easter falls in May, the ...
Churches in Arlington and Kennedale helped lead the way last week as a national Christian denomination came out flatly against using God to grab government control. In one of the boldest declarations ...
The Christian rock band Disciple formed in Knoxville, Tenn., 20 years ago. Lead singer Kevin Young was a 16-year-old high school student at the time. While the band members have grown older — as a lot ...