Thanks Dave Loveless In the early 1720’s John & Charles Wesley were students at Oxford University in England. While there they began to refine a process for increasing piety through a systematic practice of personal accountability. The brothers encouraged other classmates to gather with them weekly for the purpose of discipleship and accountability. Out of …
Author: Steve
I love to study the Bible and I love to engage with others in learning. I had been privileged to do this on a regular basis through church ministry and through part-time teaching at a local Bible colleges.
Helping individuals learn to feed themselves through their own study of God’s Word is joy-giving to me. Influencing groups to do life and church from a biblically grounded, theologically faithful perspective is my passion.
Break My Plans
Great song by itself, but when you read the context for its writing, it is even more meaningful. I love the chorus. Break my plans, shape my heart Take my will to where You are Move my mind through Your Word ‘Til all that I am lives to love You, Lord Read more about the …
It is Finished!
Identifying your Idols
This is a repost, first seen on Resurgence, but are from the a book Seeing With New Eyes by David Powlison. For other good self-diagnostic questions see https://stevekilgore.com/fluency/485/self-evaluation-in-silence/ Here are the questions: What do I worry about most? What, if I failed or lost it, would cause me to feel that I did not even …
The Chronology of Jesus’ Last Week
Good Friday and Easter, as we have come to call them, along with all the events of the final week of Jesus’ “normal” earthly life are without a doubt the most significant events and the most pivotal point in history. This is the pivotal week in the history of mankind. These are the most significant …
What Americans Believe about Universalism and Pluralism
While survey can’t tell the whole story, this is a survey summary worth. The Barna Group did a survey to identify what Americans in general and what those who claim to be Christian’s believe about universalism and pluralism. Particularly interesting is some of the issue identified related to different generations. You can read the whole …
Our hope—one day we will be with Him
He has Risen–The hope of life now and forever. by Relevant Revolution