Discipling Girls and Women: A Q&A with Anessa Westbrook

When it comes to discipling girls and women to trust and follow Jesus, are there any observations or tips that help make it more effective? Anessa Westbrook, DMin, professor of […]
Knowing Christ: The Goal That Makes Other Obsessions Look Like Garbage

Being a disciple is not just about attending church once a week, or on the “special” times throughout the year, like Christmas and Easter, putting some surplus cash in the […]
6 Truths I Learned from Randy Gariss About Emotional Maturity

Isn’t it frustrating when recipients of God’s lavish grace bark at each other during the church board meeting? Or when a sermon fills you with a blaze of courage only […]
Efficiency and Discipleship

On our little hobby farm, we recently introduced some new birds to our existing flock of layers. The new girls are a traditional breed of chicken that was once one […]
Four Evangelism Lessons From Las Vegas

In 2010 my family started a new church just off the Las Vegas Strip. This month, we are merging with a great church called The Crossing. In between was a […]
Naaman, Elisha, and Do We Want to Follow?

Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, […]
The 3 People I Should Ask to Be Part of a Disciple Making Group

Are you convicted that you ought to be making disciples, but you just don’t know where to start? The purpose of this article is to identify the type of individual […]
Christian Education: Discipline as Discipleship

I am writing this at the beginning of August, with teachers and school leaders across the world gearing up for back-to-school craziness. It’s a bizarre mixture of excitement and trepidation, […]