Tag Archives: discipleship

Hot or cold

Posted on February 6, 2019 by jwfisch

“Oh ‘spew thee out of my mouth!’” Marti chose one of my favorite biblical phrases to write about yesterday. Growing up on King James English, at least where the Bible was concerned, this used to be one our favorite sayings … Continue reading →

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Outside your comfort zone

Posted on February 5, 2019 by jwfisch

[Marti weighs in with this one.] by Marti Fischer One of the more important messages for us today as believers can be found in the words of Jesus to the seven churches that take up the first few chapters of … Continue reading →

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Walking together

Posted on June 1, 2018 by jwfisch

“I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the … Continue reading →

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Who gave you wings?

Posted on December 11, 2017 by jwfisch

In the story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Clarence, the angel, earns his wings by showing George the people his life had touched to enable George to see that, indeed, he did make a difference in the world. I bet we … Continue reading →

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Go, Disciple. Go!

Posted on November 29, 2017 by jwfisch

Disciple. Tall disciples. Short disciples. Short and tall disciples. Black, white and brown disciples. Male and female disciples.

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I never knew I had it so good

Posted on May 18, 2017 by jwfisch

It’s been nothing short of overwhelming — an avalanche of memories and well wishes coming to me via email, text, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and other means of message notifications I didn’t even know existed, and most of them going … Continue reading →

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Breakfast of forgiveness

Posted on April 21, 2017 by jwfisch

There is one more appearance of the resurrected Christ recorded in detail in the last chapter of John’s gospel because John was present along with Peter, Thomas, Nathanial, James and two other disciples he doesn’t name. It starts off with … Continue reading →

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Life on life

Posted on March 7, 2017 by jwfisch

Ministry – including evangelism and discipleship — is people touching people – life on life. It is not just disseminating information. You can do that with a piece of paper or a book or a website. It is faith working … Continue reading →

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Discipleship is not about having your own personal Jesus

Posted on February 25, 2016 by jwfisch

My friend, Wayne, had a very insightful comment after hearing our interview Tuesday night. “Our brothers in that part of Christendom focus on the teachings of Jesus whereas evangelicals focus on the substitutionary atonement.  Granted, in our circles, discipleship … … Continue reading →

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Whitewater Christian Church

Posted on October 27, 2015 by jwfisch

Step 5. Will cease all attempts to apply teaching and rebuke to anyone but ourselves. My son, Chandler goes to a very cool church. The pastor has tattoos and brown disks the size of poker chips implanted in his earlobes, … Continue reading →

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