Spiritual Formation in the Pandemic
In this pandemic, we’ve seen racist police officers kill innocent Black men — thinking they’re doing their job of public service. We’ve seen raging protestors…
Tag: Easy Yoke
I Felt Like a Son in Grief, Not a Pastor
When my dad died my mom asked me to be the minister for his funeral. But I felt like a son in grief, not a…
Relaxed
One day I was having lunch with Dallas Willard and he asked me, “If you had one word to describe Jesus what would it be?”…
The Easy Yoke Gospel
I was forty years old when I discovered the Gospel of Christ as an Easy Yoke and the Lord inflamed my heart with his love!…
Easy Yoke is an Oxymoron
In Jesus’ day, a rabbi’s teaching was called a yoke. The teaching-yoke of the religion scholars and priests was an endless list of laws, rules,…
The Apprentice Prayer
A simple prayer of the heart propelled me into a great spiritual renewal when I was forty years old. It’s now many years later, and…
You Are Enough!
During the fourteen years that I was fasting from publishing books, Kristi and I were on a retreat with a group of church leaders. As…
The Secret of Jesus’ Easy Yoke
A friend of mine was quite late for his appointment with me. He finally arrived breathless as he explained to me that 24 hours in…
Jesus Shows Us Healthy Relational Boundaries
When Jesus lived on earth, he never walked on eggshells around people, worried about upsetting them, clung to them for approval, or pushed to get…
Why Jesus Didn’t Burn Out
One thing that helped turn me around before I totally burned out was to look prayerfully at the life of Jesus. I studied the Gospels…