“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Matthew 5:6 (CSB) A NEW BEGINNING Several months ago, the Lord transitioned my family and me to a new assignment back in my home “country” of Texas. As we left one church to serve another in pastoral ministry, we left a…
All of us wrestle with these questions: Why am I here? What is my purpose? What is my reason for existence? Am I making a difference or just taking up space? These questions haunted me through my high school and early college years. I sought to gain approval and purpose through performance, achievement, and pleasing…
Josh Howard is the founder of Ignite and a worker with E3 Partners. Howard has been a missionary in South Asia and in our most recent Disciple Maker’s Podcast, he discussed the incredible results of ‘crazy farming’ — the method of widely spreading the Gospel seeds. He highlighted the importance of prayer and fasting and…
I find a great deal of comfort in Jesus’ words: “We must work the works of Him who sent me.” The “we” jumps off the page at me. It is an amazing thing to think that as you are making disciples, you are actually in partnership with Jesus. There is no time that you are…
I am a wife and a mother of four with an unquenchable passion for generational disciplemaking. God is my priority, followed by my husband and children, yet I hear the call to make disciples every day. My journey with Christ began when I met The Navigators at West Virginia University. At a summer “Equipping Institute”…
Linda’s Story I’ve always wanted to learn how to read the Bible, but it never made sense to me. I was thrilled when a disciple-making friend said that two of my friends also wanted to learn about God. This friend promised that I would be able to learn what God wanted to say to me…
The concept of “beginning with the end in mind” is not something I came up with. Many a management guru uses that statement to manage one’s life. It is a great concept and fits excellent with starting a New Year. Beginning with the end in mind means identifying what you want to be true of…
The book DiscipleShift: Helping Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples is an important book for church leaders seeking to understand how to shift their church back to disciple making. This book is a best seller in the Christian leadership space (over 100,000 copies). The ebook, Making the DiscipleShift in Your Church: The Basics in 5 Minutes is…
My wife and I spent much of the Christmas season this year in Florida. No, it wasn’t sunny and it wasn’t warm, much to my wife’s disappointment. But we were able to be at my niece’s wedding, my mom’s ninetieth birthday, and celebrate Christmas with family for the first time in many years. Being a pastor…
A common misconception in modern ministry is equating success with increasing membership. However, in a recent Disciple Maker’s Podcast with Matt Dabbs and Brandon Guindon, Brandon offered a different perspective. In the previous blog post, Brandon and Matt stated that the metric of success isn’t just about growth in numbers but growth in the quality…
Disciple making is not only at the heart of the Christian faith; it’s vital to the growth and strength of the church. In a recent Disciple Maker’s Podcast with Brandon Guindon, Matt Dabbs explored this in-depth, dissecting the essence of disciple-making culture and its role in impactful ministry. Brandon is an experienced pastor and elder…
One of our best small group leaders, a lawyer by profession, approached me after a Sunday service. He said, “Do you have any curriculum suggestions on the topic of racism for a small group study this next semester?” Our nation had just gone through a wave of civil unrest in the aftermath of the George…
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