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.
You Say You Want a Revolution?
Jesus did more than teach moral truths. He confronted the hidden ideas governing human hearts and cultures. This article explores Dallas Willard’s concept of ideas, the “Idea Revolution” of Jesus, and how deep discipleship transforms identity, shame, power, and love from the inside out.
I Don’t Remember This in Sunday School
Why do our lives often fail to reflect what we say we believe? This article explores the hidden world of ideas—those unseen assumptions shaping our hearts—and why deep discipleship requires more than knowledge. If spiritual formation is about becoming like Jesus, we must learn to uncover and transform the ideas quietly governing our lives.
I Think Therefore I’m Formed?
Why do so many followers of Jesus feel stuck, anxious, or disconnected despite knowing the right things? This episode explores how flawed assumptions about human nature are quietly shaping modern discipleship—and why spiritual formation must go far deeper than information alone.
Pressing through the Wall
What happens when the faith that once felt stable no longer holds us up? In this reflection, a vision of discipleship is brought into focus through one of the most overlooked stages of spiritual formation: the “Wall.” Far from being a detour, this season of doubt, disruption, and inner questioning may be the very place where deeper transformation begins. Rather than retreating, numbing out, or reconstructing faith on our own terms, the invitation is to press inward—honestly engaging our hearts with God and trusted others. True discipleship isn’t just about belief or activity; it’s about becoming, often through the painful but profound work of encountering God in our deepest questions.