Jesus’ call to follow Him is a call to entrust every part of life to His loving lordship. Mark 10:17–31 Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to ma

The grace of God compels us to follow Jesus with intentional, costly devotion. Luke 14:15 - 35 This is what we mean by cheap grace, the grace which amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and from whom sin departs... Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is

Living in Tune with the Mercy of Christ the King Matthew 25:31 - 46 Mercy comes from mercy. Our mercy to each other comes from God's mercy to us. The key to becoming a merciful person is to become a broken person. You get the power to show mercy from the real feeling in your heart that you owe everything you are and have to sheer divine mercy. – John Piper If we want to become people marked by mercy, we must first become people who see clearly. This means cultivating the kin

Discipleship as a Change of Kingdom and Direction Matthew 4:12 - 25 The New Testament is a book about disciples, by disciples, and for disciples of Jesus Christ… All of the assurances and benefits offered to humankind in the gospel evidently presuppose such a life and do not make realistic sense apart from it. – Dallas Willard Discipleship is not an optional aspect of Christian faith; it is the context in which we experience the Kingdom of God, salvation, and eternal life. As