By very definition, God cannot be fully comprehended by the human mind. He is that much bigger and greater than us. Yet throughout history, God has been making himself known to us as far as we are capable. He met Moses on the mountain and spoke to him “face to...
Some of you know my wife, Janet. What you may not know is that she has been writing a weekly blog for almost a year now about how we can nurture the spiritual development of children. Check out: Child Centered Spirituality. Her premise (backed by plenty of research)...
When we were in the beta testing phase of our discipleship assessment instrument, Tad Blackburn, pastor with The Vineyard Church, decided to try out the assessment in a retreat setting. He shares here from his experience: When we started with the discipleship...
Looking for resources for your small group ministry? We have a new set of discipleship guides available… one guide for each of the 8 areas shown here on the tree of discipleship. (You can double-click the tree to enlarge it if you’d like.) Designed to be...
Lately I’ve been thinking through how Jesus made disciples, based on my observations of scripture. I’ll post one insight per day here. You can find all of them by searching “How Jesus made disciples” on my blog. Jesus assumed discipleship to be holistic in nature,...
Lately I’ve been thinking through how Jesus made disciples, based on my observations of scripture. I’ll post one insight per day here on my blog. You can find all of them by searching “How Jesus made disciples” on my blog. Idea: this might make a good sermon...
