Discipleship

Learn to Linger in Grief

Imagine a church where grief isn’t ignored, but it also isn’t hopeless. Where lament isn’t a sign of weak faith, but an act of worship.

An Invitation to Pray

Praying specific can become an exciting adventure and partnership with God– truly seeking to pray the heart, mind and will of the Father!

Expect to Be Different

Avoiding interaction with the world will ensure not only that the world dies but that your church will too. This is the way salt works: it is either used proactively or it becomes destructive to the one who has it.

9 Signs You Are a Healthy Christian

"It should be the goal of every Christian to walk true to the characteristics that Christ calls out of our lives."

How Growing Churches Can Maintain Strong Community

Bobby Gruenewald: “A church’s ability to grow and to make people feel needed and known shouldn’t feel mutually exclusive.”

3 Ways Suffering Makes Us Holy

Ed Stetzer: "As disciples of Jesus, we must use hard times to harness who we really are in Christ."

3 Critical Truths About Spiritual Warfare

"When spiritual warfare becomes our primary lens, we risk getting stuck in an immature level of underdevelopment."

5 Reasons We Struggle to Be a ‘Friend of Sinners’

"Out of all of the names of God in the Bible, there is only one that is actually attainable by you and me—'friend of sinners.'"

What Comes Before the Gospel?

"If the gospel is the hope of the world, and if the message is blocked until there is good will, where do we go from here?"

5 ‘Secular’ Habits Christians Need to Learn

Phil Cooke: "One of the big reasons we’re losing our voice in today’s culture is that we don’t understand these critical habits."

‘Lord, I Thank Thee That I Am Not Like Those Evangelical Trump Supporters’

Ed Stetzer: "Our gut reaction is to dismiss Trump supporters and to question their faith. I’d like to suggest a different approach."