10 Reasons: Click HERE for more information on the conference and to register. Dr. Dave Rahn, this year’s keynote, will be speaking at each general session throughout the conference. Dave began his career in youth ministry in 1972 with Youth for Christ, where he served as a Campus Life Director. In 1985 be began teaching …
In Sonlife, we have a strong conviction that Jesus is our model for life and ministry. The primary reason for this conviction is Jesus’ own words to his disciples throughout the Gospel accounts. His invitation to “Follow me” is actually a challenge to a life of imitation — to become just like Him (Matthew 9:9, …
We wanted to take a moment to introduce you to Dr. Dave Rahn, this year’s keynote at the Disciple Making Conference (February 24-26, 2026 in St. Augustine, FL). Dave will be speaking at each general session throughout the conference. Dave began his career in youth ministry in 1972 with Youth for Christ, where he served …
At Sonlife, we’re all in on equipping youth ministry leaders to develop disciple making ministries that reflect the character and priorities of Jesus, informed by the chronological movement of his ministry as recorded in the Gospels of the New Testament. That’s a good summary of us. We can sometimes be lampooned as people who preach …
In my church tradition as in many others, there’s a deep concern about the future of church leadership. Where will the pastors come from? Recently, a friend shared with me insights from Barna’s latest tour on the State of the Church (https://stateofthechurch.com/ ) that contain these two research responses that speak to the issue: “It …
It doesn’t take long in ministry to figure out that the only way to expand your influence is to multiply your impact through others. This can be a scary realization, bringing you to the point of asking, “Is my life in Christ worth imitating?” This is an essential question, because Jesus assumes those in spiritual …
In the Gospel of John, chapter 2, Jesus got in trouble for cleaning his room. Of course, we’re not just talking about a bedroom toward the back of Mary and Joseph’s house in Nazareth. We’re talking about the massive stone Temple in Jerusalem. He didn’t go about it with a swiffer and vacuum in hand, …
(adapted from How Jesus Made Disciples by Doug Holliday) If you run a Google search of the word “discipleship,” you’ll find 19,800,000 results. Google “disciple-making” and you’ll find 33,200,000 results. Needless to say, there is a lot of content and conversation about disciple…stuff. Most of us would probably agree that this is an important topic, …
“And the disciples went everywhere and preached, and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs.” Mark 16:20 NLT The disciples often seemed slow to understand Jesus’ purpose and plan. They grabbed for power. They hungered for national freedom, liberation from the tyranny of Rome. Yet when the time came for His departure, …
“When they got there, they found breakfast waiting for them—fish cooking over a charcoal fire, and some bread…. “Now come and have some breakfast!” Jesus said. None of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. Then Jesus served them the bread and the fish… After breakfast Jesus …