The boat story
Many of you have probably heard this story before. It’s an old story, and still one of my favorites– it marked a significant turning point in my ministry. Someone reminded me the other day of how powerful this story was for them when they heard it, which...One of my favorite stories
Some of you who have heard me speak may have heard me share one of my very favorite discipleship and church planting stories. It’s out of Honduras, and goes to illustrate how effective ministry can be with almost no resourcing, no technology, no telephones, no...Disciples: from the harvest for the harvest
As we reach people from the harvest, we don’t shut them up in a barn. We send them right back into the harvest to glean more. That’s what Jesus meant when he told his disciples they would become fishers of men. Disciples are called to make more disciples: we take from...
Live Generously
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 in separately or as a series. Living generously is more than a matter of specific actions....Serve Others
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 in separately or as a series. Our service to others– both believers and unbelievers– is the...Make Disciples
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 in separately or as a series. As we live incarnationally and serve missionally, the...Get Involved
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. Following Jesus has never been a go-it-alone kind of faith. If...