The Disciplemaker Team 
I’m constantly amazed at the reasons people give for not having important conversations. They hold back for fear they’ll be misunderstood or because they think they don’t know enough to share about Jesus. This is pride in disguise. If you …
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This excerpt is taken from a conversation between two men, one who is mentoring another along the spiritual path toward acceptance in Jesus. We are joining this dialogue when the two, who have already met several times, are meeting at …
My friend Ellie Lofarro is a “Why not?” kind of girl. She’s always up for an adventure. She recently went on a mission trip to Costa Rica. Afterward I had to smile when she wrote: The mission trip to Costa …
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For many young women, life just sort of happens to them. They don’t give much thought about where they want to go and what they want their lives to look like. In their families, that means they just get by. …
I’d heard the phrase “God is love” plenty of times, but I never really took it to heart. After all, “God is love” seemed to contradict the way in which some Christians had treated me and others. I was never …
[maxbutton id=”1″ ] There is a famous book by a rabbi named Abraham Heschel. The Sabbath is a little book about the mystical power of the Sabbath; it has a hushed tone, as though Abraham was writing about something sacred, …
Boundaries with people are the hardest to set, and you may not even know yet if you have a problem. In her book, You Can Do This: Seizing the Confidence God Offers, author Tricia Williford looks at several things a …
by Paul E. Miller, author of A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World I wrote a book on prayer but, until 2008, I never thought about praying with my daughter every morning. Let me explain. My daughter Kim …
Every day, in one way or another, Mother taught her three sons that “God’s word,” the Holy Story, is the way that guides us, the truth that saves us, and the love that fills us. My mother’s Bible was an …
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