There are countless approaches and plans for discipleship these days. Churches have various processes for making disciples and publishers have produced mounds of curriculum for disciple making. There is simply no shortage of methods for disciple making in today’s...
I was listening to a ministry podcast while running the other day when my ear buds almost popped out. I was listening to a podcast on how to make discipleship easy and couldn’t get over how complicated they were making it. If I attended their growth track for...
In a recent conversation with a close friend, an interesting revelation came to light. My friend was sharing with me a conversation he had with the new pastor of his church. Fresh out of seminary and in his first church, this pastor was just getting his feet wet when...
I have noticed something interesting as I have moved into the mid-life phase of life. I have noticed that quite a few of the friends that were very involved in church in their thirties are not as committed in their fifties. Many of the couples that were heavily...
When you run with 60,000 people, it is easy to get lost in the crowd. The Peachtree Road Race has so many runners at the end of the race that they have huge balloons with letters on them so you can find your friends at the finish line. I always tell the folks that run...