The DiscipleMaker Team 
Jim Downing, the Pearl Harbor survivor who I had been meeting with every Tuesday for a few years, and I were talking about how he first came to faith in Jesus. “Virgil Hook is the one who helped bring me …
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“Then wash your face.” That’s the bridge in the center of the quote I like so much: “Occasionally, weep deeply over the life that you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Feel the pain. Then wash your face, trust God, …
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We’re all busy, and our pace of life doesn’t leave much room for anything other than the highest of priorities. As you choose to place Jesus’ call to make disciples as a high priority in your life, you may find …
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When Batman stops a robbery or, as in The Dark Knight Rises, inspires his city to follow his example, he is being a force for good and justice. But how many other robberies happen all over the city that he …
Music is a connective tissue between our earthly, tangible lives and the intangible movement of the divine in and through all things. As the late poet and philosopher John O’Donohue said: There is something deeper still in the way that …
The first summer after David’s accident, I tried to replace a headlight bulb in our Chevy. Did you know some cars have two separate bulbs on each side, one for high beam and one for low, located in different places, …
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You’ve put yourself out there, gone to the girls’ nights and the Bible studies, and you are still struggling to make a friendship connection. You are giving your best and women aren’t reciprocating the efforts. This friendship thing can be …
As we grapple with submitting to a God who invites us to come and die, there’s another layer of fear that often scares us away from God. For generations, our definition of Christian has been overshadowed by medieval threats of …
While parable is arguably the best way to describe how The Lord of the Rings relates to Christianity, there is certainly no argument about the series being a mythical story. But the meaning of the word myth needs some clarification …
Six tall steps of brick and concrete connect our porch to the front sidewalk. Their steepness explains why we couldn’t build our wheelchair ramp there. To meet slope requirement codes, any ramp going down those front steps would have to …
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