This is my little home on the interwebs.
Led by my Podcast - Disciple Up - I hope that all the ministry material on this site will be helpful to you as you seek to learn about following Jesus more closely everyday.
God bless you.
-Louie
The Beatles recorded a song in 1967 with was then and in many ways continues to be the anthem of our culture. Yet look at the lyrics and you’ll see that like everything else, love needs some definition.
Disciple Up #13
What Is Love? Pt 1 Or…When Dr. Love Comes To Town
By Louie Marsh, 7-12-2017
Drivel from Psychology Today article.
Greek words
Disciple Up #12
Real Truth Not “My Truth”
By Louie Marsh, 7-5-2017
Segment 1 – WHY do the cults deny these truths?
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
Disciple Up #11
The Importance of Doctrine
By Louie Marsh, 6-27-2017
Segment 1: Why Doctrine is important.
What is doctrine anyway? The word just meaning teaching. The way we use doctrine is to describe what the Bible teaches and what Christians believe.
My history with doctrine. As a teenager and a new Christian I thought you didn’t need it. But as I matured I discovered how wrong I was. Today lots of people will say we don’t need it – because that’s a perfect fit with the Spirit of the Age we live in.
Two Sides to Spiritual Growth
My side – spiritual disciplines
Where people tend to disagree is who does what and how much and how often.
Disciple Up #9
Tube Float Discipleship & No Safe Spaces
By Louie Marsh
Some Rambling thoughts on community involvement to open up the show.
Quotes:
From all sides you hear about Karma today – why I’m doing this episode – Christians say it too!
What is Karma?
Disciple Up #7
How To Respond to the Gospel
By Louie Marsh
How To Establish A Spiritual B.A.S.I.S. for Living
B = Believe Jesus died on the Cross for me and showed He was God by coming back to life again.
Disciple Up #6
What is the Gospel?
Two schools of thought about how to explain the Gospel. (Actually there’s more than just two of course, but what follows is a fairly accurate summation of how people and churches are approaching the Gospel.
Let’s look at what the New Testament says about God’s will from the perspective of a disciple of Jesus.
35 For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.” Mark 3:35 (ESV)
Thinking Biblically
God calls disciples to think Biblically not culturally and not to simply follow my feelings or to go by my instincts. No, God calls all disciples to think clearly, critically (I mean analytically not to be critical of others).
18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. Isaiah 1:18 (ESV)
Levels of accountability
To God
To ourselves
To an intimate few Eccl. 4:9-12
To the community of faith
1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God…
The Disciple of Jesus VS Selfism
Being a disciple of Jesus is a radical departure from our culture of selfism. Selfism = believe in yourself, etc.
Will power becomes won’t power very quickly. Will power makes me self-absorbed.
DISCIPLE
The word is found in the Bible only in the Gospels and Acts.
In all cases it implies that the person not only accepts the views of the teacher, but that he is also in practice an adherent. A disciple is a “follower,” someone who adheres completely to the teachings of another, making them his rule of life and conduct.