The Disciplemaker Team 
In 1988 the world watched as the first Jamaican bobsled team competed in the Winter Olympics. Yes, that Jamaica, the tropical Caribbean island where temperatures never drop below freezing. In 1993, Disney turned the story into a movie, Cool Runnings. …
I have a confession. I’m an introvert, and at times, being around other people drains me. This is especially true when I’m in social settings for extended periods with people I don’t know well. I’m pretty good at hiding it …
Embrace this God-life. Really embrace it, and nothing will be too much for you. The bible is an epic story spanning thousands of years. It is earthy and human, written by kings and shepherds, prophets and fishermen, it is also …
I hope that you’re doing well, that your heart is resting in the love of our Father in each step, that rest comes easily, and that food is satisfying. The simple things in life seem to be the basis from …
The calendar doesn’t lie. Easter is slowly creeping up on us and it is time once again for stores to pull out all the stops: Easter rabbits, chocolate eggs, lilies and all manner of unnecessary paraphanelia to help distract people …
The Bible isn’t a secret code book, but a treasure-store for everyone of universal truth that never changes. Right research can help you find and correctly understand this valuable truth. How we study the Scriptures is comparable to the process …
The last time we saw Charlie, he was working at the Greater Manila Food Terminal sorting eggs. He was one of my favorite guys among the early converts at the university in Los Banos in the Philippines. There was a …
Learn to say these three words to yourself, to God, and then—when you’re really ready to take a radical step toward humility—to someone else: “I don’t know.” Steven Levitt and Stephan Dubner make a painful point in their book Think …
We all want to figure out life. We want to understand. We want to know what it all means. And that’s where I want to begin: with the simple premise that every person longs for meaning. Meaning is both the …
In the early days of Sanctuary church we wondered “how do we enact the Kingdom agenda of Jesus in real-time, practical situations?” If people who are poor and usually excluded are truly supposed to be at the center of all, …