The Like of God
Why do so many Christians encounter Jesus yet remain largely unchanged over time? Perhaps because transformation requires more than instruction, effort, or performance. It requires vulnerability — the risky experience of allowing ourselves to be fully seen and fully loved by God. Deep discipleship begins when we discover that God not only loves us. He likes us.
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs
What if your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and habits are all pointing to something deeper? In this article, Brian Fisher explores the Eight Indicators of the heart and why deep discipleship requires gentle self-awareness, spiritual formation, and intentional transformation from the inside out.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
What if the greatest obstacles to spiritual transformation lie beneath our conscious beliefs? In this article, Brian Fisher explores deep discipleship, the hidden operating system of the human heart, and why lasting character formation requires more than information alone. Through the concepts of Heartview, worldview, and the Eight Indicators, we begin uncovering the unconscious ideas and desires that shape our lives and relationships.
Number 5 is Alive
What if spiritual formation is less about information and more about transforming the hidden operating system of the heart? In this episode and article, Brian Fisher explores how unconscious ideas and desires shape our lives, why modern discipleship often fails to produce deep transformation, and how Jesus forms people through five essential elements: time, habits, community, intimacy, and instruction.
What Lies Beneath
Deep discipleship requires more than information and Bible knowledge. True spiritual formation explores the hidden ideas, desires, habits, and heart patterns shaping our character and relationships.
Blissful Ignorance?
Deep discipleship requires more than Bible knowledge and behavior management. Exploring our stories, wounds, desires, and relationships is essential to healing, transformation, and becoming more like Jesus.
The Discipleship Dilemma
Many Christians long to become more like Jesus yet avoid the inner exploration required for deep spiritual formation. The Discipleship Dilemma reveals why self-knowledge, emotional honesty, and understanding the hidden ideas beneath our beliefs are essential to genuine discipleship.
One of These Things Is Not Like The Other
“The Great Omission” is the reality that modern Christianity talks endlessly about discipleship while struggling to actually form people who live, love, and relate like Jesus. This article summarizes the journey so far and introduces three major problems quietly undermining deep spiritual formation today: the Discipleship Dilemma, the Formation Gap, and the Forgotten Kingdom.
Shooting Ourselves in the Feet
Why do so many churches produce impressive attendance numbers yet struggle to form people who genuinely look like Jesus? This article explores Dallas Willard’s “Great Omission,” hidden assumptions shaping modern Christianity, and the dangerous drift from deep discipleship toward institutional growth, celebrity leadership, transactional conversion, and information-based spirituality.
Mining the Heart
Discipleship is far more about the inner life than many Christians realize. This article explores Dallas Willard’s “Great Omission,” the hidden ideas shaping our hearts, and why suffering often becomes the catalyst for deep spiritual formation and authentic discipleship.