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I believe in discipleship. I believe in taking your time with a few people - helping them get it right. Matt Ruple is a good example of how that works...
It's sobering to look back on your wasted effort. I've wasted a lot of time trying to make disciples in ways that didn't work. And I gu...
Jesus took three years to help his disciples see the world and see themselves differently. And even then, at the end, they were blowing it. As Jesus h...
The space between Christmas and New Years is a good time to take stock. It's a good time to think about how you want to grow next year. Most of us wan...
I have a dream that sometimes seems so unrealistic, I don't talk about it with anyone. My dream is that churches would be seized by a passion to disc...
She was wrong for him. She was needy and would not fuel his dreams. I wasn't the only one who could see the disaster coming. A number of my friends co...
One of the problems with discipleship in America is that we've removed the pain. We want to run around and put a pillow under rear-ends. And by keepin...
Our chief job as parents is to disciple our kids. Academics, sports, extracurricular activities - all are secondary to the task of passing a living fa...
I'm constantly challenged by Jesus' model of discipleship - a model that reaches its greatest intensity as described in Luke 10. It's a model where in...
Here's a thing Jesus did with his disciples that we don't do nearly enough in America: He threw them in the deep end. His disciples hadn't been wit...
