Find Your Focus

Find Your Focus

This blog post is part of a series of nine entries, each highlighting one of the nine Journey Guides. Each Journey Guide is a three-week discipleship study. They can be engaged separately or as a series.  God has something unique for each of us to contribute to his...
Love God

Love God

This blog post is part of a series of nine entries, each highlighting one of the nine Journey Guides. Each Journey Guide is a three-week discipleship study. They can be engaged separately or as a series. Loving God is the bedrock of all of the rest of our faith — it’s...
A map for discipleship

A map for discipleship

If you actually want to get where you’re going, you need a map to help you navigate. Only a map can give you an indication of whether you’re getting closer to or further away from your goal. Without one, all of us are left wandering in circles. We have another free...
What God sounds like

What God sounds like

By guest blogger Mark Foster Recently Bob wrote a blog entry about the devotional book Jesus Calling. I use that book as well and have for more than a year now. What was especially compelling for me is that the words Sarah Young shares match the experience of the way...
Jesus calling

Jesus calling

I normally don’t like daily devotionals, but in our church gathering we’ve been working through one together and we’ve seen numbers of people who have been very helped by this book. Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young, consists of a series of very short, one-page thoughts,...
Exercise: knowing, being, and doing

Exercise: knowing, being, and doing

Here’s a great exercise I picked up from Dave DeVries. If you want to make not just disciples, but disciplemakers– people who can make other disciples– try this out with your team. Sit down together and brainstorm your own list in the following three...