Discipleship and Spiritual Growth

Outreach Resources of the Year: Discipleship

Here are the top Discipleship resources of the year.

Keep It Weird

I like routine, and I like many “normal” things. I am a creature of habit. So, I am not going to talk about how churches need to be spontaneous and constantly “shake things up.”

Spiritual Disciples

Like so many I know and love, I can easily imagine how my path into the void could have led somewhere other than here, back home.

Just for a Season

Grandmom and Grandad’s Louisiana table will always be my favorite table, carved walnut and long enough for their four kids to bring their kids who also brought theirs. It was the living table of a great-grandmother, and she set it with southern precision, in decadent layers of greenery and understated class.

Does Your View of Heaven Match Jesus’?

“The heavens” also carried another important meaning in the ancient world. It referred to the dwelling place of God. The heavens are the invisible, intangible realm occupied by the Lord and his hosts.

More Than You Were Meant to Carry

The antidote to pride is still humility, but a kind of humility that’s different from what we’re used to. We typically think of humility as thinking lowly of oneself, and we don’t struggle to think lowly of ourselves.

Practice the Language

Every person we translate Jesus to has two options: to follow Him or stay where they are. We do our part in prayer and partnership with Jesus.

How and When to Memorize Scripture

No matter what method you use for memorization—notecards, apps, the first letter method, writing or listening to the Word, or reciting it in the shower—repetition will be a necessary ingredient.

Free to Fail

We don’t live by faith by reading a rule book, or following a map, or working through a career development program. We do not begin with things, or pieces of paper, or ideas, or feelings, or deeds, or successes.

Making Discipleship Central

If Jesus says being a disciple and making disciples is the main thing, then that's the main thing for us. But what in the world does this look like?

Follow Your Breath

Tom’s message was simple: each and every one of us is invited to encounter a God who loves, chooses, and visits us.