Welcome to Navigating Discipleship

Welcome to Navigating Discipleship

Sharing our thoughts from our life of discipleship

Let the Holy Spirit Guide

Let the Holy Spirit Guide

God's forgiveness is real. It is necessary, and it's available to everyone, even me.

5 min read
The Gospel in One Tweet

The Gospel in One Tweet

The gospel of Jesus Christ certainly is simple, but its application is complex and robust enough to address the diversity of everyone who applies it.

5 min read
The Miracle of Faith

The Miracle of Faith

This year I am focusing my personal scripture study on the Book of Mormon, but instead of reading it from cover to cover I have created a topics list and I'm trying to study the principles the Book of Mormon teaches by topic.

6 min read
Is your gospel shelf breaking? Then build a library.

Is your gospel shelf breaking? Then build a library.

Expand your world-view, build more shelves, and keep asking questions!

8 min read
Why I Don't Say, 'I Know the Church is True'

Why I Don't Say, 'I Know the Church is True'

I have been focusing on what words I use in my own testimony, how consciously choosing my words has changed my testimony for the better, and that when we try to conform our unique understanding of God to a set of commonly used phrases we sacrifice depth for conformity.

6 min read
Prophets and The Conservative/Liberal Paradigm

Prophets and The Conservative/Liberal Paradigm

If we insist on coloring everything a prophet does as being necessarily conservative or necessarily liberal then we’ll miss out on the larger picture of what God is doing.

3 min read
Some of the most powerful gospel lessons I've learned, I learned while serving in primary

Some of the most powerful gospel lessons I've learned, I learned while serving in primary

I learned that some of the deepest and most powerful witnesses of the Spirit may be happening the far corner of your church building on Sunday.

4 min read
The Power to Overcome

The Power to Overcome

By looking at the Book of Revelation through the lens of how to overcome trials and the wonderful promises for those who do overcome, it is transformed from an obligatory “doom and gloom” reference guide to a book full of rich promises and a guide on how to overcome trials in life.

14 min read
The Gift of “The Light of Life”

The Gift of “The Light of Life”

One of my favorite things to do each year is sit in our living room with a cup of hot cocoa and admire our Christmas tree after the kids have all gone to bed. For me light is an important part of the holiday because of it's symbolic allusions to Christ.

5 min read