The Disciplemaker Team 
Picture this: you are in a conversation with your friend about the struggles in his/her life. You can tell your friend feels increasingly frustrated and lost. You know that the only thing that’s truly going to meet their needs is …
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Tramping through the snow, I stop for a moment. Everything around me is perfectly still. Only my footprints break the surface of the pure, white snow, and even these are behind me and out of sight. As far as my …
One of the biggest changes a church must make is committing to know the community in humble and contextual ways. Doing this will take a little bit of work. I like to use the illustration of double Dutch. Double Dutch …
The first-frost smells of slightly frozen autumn are transcendent. Last night’s temperatures brought all but the heartiest of this year’s bounty to an end; yet when the first rays of early morning sun warm this frozen world, the result is …
Paul’s words in Galatians 3:28—“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”—are a powerful statement against the sin of partiality. But they …
You can pray for me at every stop light!” shouted Pastor Tim from the back of the room. I was leading a prayer conference in a Chicago-area church, and I had been sharing how I often used a long traffic …
This article by Catherine McNiel was originally published on Awana.org. If you step into Walgreens or Target in October, one thing becomes crystal clear: we are about to be swept away in a storm of holiday decorations and candy. From …
Racial reconciliation. This is a term we’re used to hearing—but we rarely see positive results from discussions surrounding it. The words racial reconciliation usually trigger greater chasms of division rather than healing, repentance, and togetherness. I’m going to state a …
Being the hands and feet of Jesus requires us to examine how we engage with the marginalized audience around us. Ignoring a marginalized audience means that the church will have a marginalized awareness of their existence and needs. A Jesus-centered …
Our redemption as the people of God—our story as first the conciled ones, in relationship with Him, who then fell out of relationship through sin, and who were then reconciled—gives us the road map to healing our ethnic tensions. We …
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