I met Brandon just after my family and I moved from Ohio to Montana to plant a church. I was new in town and didn’t know anybody. I wanted to reach out to spiritually lost people with the Gospel of Jesus, and I needed to exercise. When I heard that a group of men played …
We receive an invitation every day. Maybe hundreds of them. We just don’t think of them as invitations. To us, they are intrusions. Banner adds. Pop-up adds. Unsolicited e-mails or phone calls. Commercials on the radio or television. Newspaper or magazine ads. Movie previews. Billboards. Bumper stickers. Junk mail. And then there are invitations of …
How do you end a story that you don’t want to ever end? Happily ever after? No, better than that. Zarley harmonizes Mark 16:20, John 20:30-31 and John 21:25 to conclude the gospels. “Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied …
How do you know? How do you know when you’re going the right direction? How do you know you’re sipping the perfect cup of coffee? How do you know you’ve studied hard enough to pass the test? How do you know you’ve found true love? How do you know… that you’ve made a disciple? How …
Google discipleship and you’ll find 8,910,000 results. Google disciple-making and you’ll find about half that, 4,200,000 results. Needless to say, there is a lot that is being said and a lot that is being written about discipleship. Where does one start? When we hear the word discipleship, what comes to mind? If we’re honest, I …
Many people struggle with relating with Jesus. It is easy to conclude that since Jesus is God and we are not, we can’t live like Jesus. We throw up our arms and say, “But I am not Jesus.” True you are not. There was only one Jesus and it’s not you. So, was Jesus being …
“Many of Christ’s initial disciples were teenagers.” That one simple statement from a college professor, along with a study of the Harmony of the Gospels and Jesus’ leadership methods, sparked the supernatural movement of Sonlife. In September of 1979, the first Sonlife Strategy Conference convened with 22 youth pastors in Wheaton, Illinois. We’re as committed …
You’ve probably seen one of these humorous grammatical sayings: Let’s eat grandma! Let’s eat, grandma! Punctuation saves lives! There are two different meanings separated by the proper use of grammar. A small comma can make a significant difference; a distinction that changes everything. As it is with discipleship and disciple-making. One root word, disciple, with …