Archive for April 2011

  Learn. Grow. Feast. Serve. Discipleship Academy is a weekly, pastor-led gathering of 12 men and women for the purpose of Christian discipleship.  We cover five six-week modules over the course of a year. Our first group started in early January. We’re starting a new group in the first week in May.

Lenten Devotional Series Day 30. Today’s meditation is on Eph 4:25-32. In some parts of the world, people use an elegant method to trap monkeys. They hollow out a gourd or coconut and put a hole in it just big enough for a monkey’s open paw to squeeze through, put something desirable inside it like…

Lenten Devotional Series Day 29. Today’s meditation is on the Eighth Commandment, “You shall not steal,” in Exodus 20:15. Implicit in the Eighth Commandment’s prohibition against stealing is a Christian ethic of generous living in response to God’s gracious provision for us. This way of life is commended throughout the Scriptures in a variety of…

Lenten Devotional Series Day 28. Today’s meditation is on the eighth commandment, “You shall not steal,” found in Exodus 20:15. The eighth commandment is not difficult to understand. A small child can read it and grasp its meaning. But it is difficult for us to obey.

Lenten Devotional Series Day 27. Today’s meditation is on 1 Cor 6:12-20. By God’s design, we are physical beings in a physical world. Before sin entered the world, God made us to reflect his image in human bodies, and he called what he had made very good. Then came the rebellion in Eden and two…

Lenten Devotional Series Day 26. Today’s meditation is on Matthew 5:27-30. It is hard to manage our hungers. We hunger for various things: success, recognition, admiration, respect, and love, among others. A Christ-centered appetite is good, but when our appetites start to control us they become idols which we serve in the place of our…

Lenten Devotional Series Day 25. Today’s meditation is on the seventh commandment, “You shall not commit adultery,” found in Exodus 20:14. In Matthew 12:43-45, Jesus warned the Pharisees that deliverance from Satan’s power without an accompanying conversion to faith in him would only leave a person ripe for worse Satanic oppression. One demon gone: good.…

Lenten Devotional Series Day 24. Today’s meditation is on the seventh commandment, “You shall not commit adultery,” found in Exodus 20:14. Adultery is sexual intimacy between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse. The seventh commandment explicitly prohibits adultery, and by implication, any and all other sexual acts outside of marriage. If…