Steve Bremner
Author, Podcaster & Writing Coach
Are you trying to build electric fences to protect Jesus' sheep when He didn't ask you to? Lately, my thoughts have been wandering through the winding paths of faith, brushing up against the …
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Church comes as a result of discipling. Discipleship ought to be the backbone and cause of 'church', not the other way around. The tail isn't intended to wag the dog. Likewise, you can't teach …
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This week I’m privileged to have Larry Sparks on the show. I’ve been following Larry for a little while now and recently took the plunge and invited him to be on the show. Larry Sparks is on a …
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This week I am privileged to have on the podcast one of the men who's heavily influenced my ministry here in Peru. I'm talking about Mike Breen, author and phrase coiner. In the first part of …
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This week I am privileged to have Mark Burgess back on the podcast for the first time in almost three years exactly to the month. I actually recorded it a number of weeks ago but have been super …
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Oikos is the context of a biblical lifestyle As we eat meals in neighborhood restaurants, observe cottage industries, and get to know local residents we see the same is still true in the Holy …
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My post from last week about how you can't find the professional worship leader in the New Testament has been burning up on social media, at least at the time of writing this. I could replace …
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Original post: Is God Preparing a Spiritual Awakening among the Millennials? - Discipling Culture This article caught my attention because it wasn't bashing millennials for a change. Nor was …
Today's blog post is inspired by Done with Church, but Not with God | Holy Soup. Last week I posted a half-written-by-me/half curated post about the buzz surrounding the done with church …
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In the missional Christian culture, we can be obsessed with creating movements and doing so quickly. You can attend conferences called Movementum and read a dozen how-to manuals on creating a …
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This past weekend my disciple Raul came over to our apartment, urgently wanting to talk to Lili and me after having just got back within the last hour from a 10 day trip into the jungles of …
This week I continue with my flow of thoughts from last week concerning making disciples. We hold discipleship as one of our main core values in our ministry Oikos, and seek to reproduce …
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There’s really ONE specific thing Jesus commanded us to do: MAKE DISCIPLES of the Nations. Yet, depending on who you talk to, this is viewed as optional, or something only special people like …
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Today I'm going to do something I've never quite done before. I initially sat down to write this after meditating on and praying into just what building the Lord's church looks like. I had …
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This week on the podcast I am privileged to have an interview with a friend and former teacher of mine in my days at FIRE School of Ministry named Bert Farias. He and his son Daniel recently …
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In the world of technology, there’s a very simple (yet in reality very complex) concept called “compatibility.” For example, there’s certain apps that work on iphones, but if you try to use them …
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My thoughts this morning come to you after reading a couple of different articles and drinking a couple of coffees. The first from Relevant Magazine that I read last night, but I'll get to …
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First, I share some updates about new editions in the Kingdom of God since having recorded today's show, and developments since last week's episode. Then we get down to business and I continue …
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Recently I was talking to our leader Mark who mentioned something to me about someone in our neighborhood thinking that for an organic church, we at Oikos are too organized and not spontaneous …
Recently Lili and I joined The World Outreach Center as our US 'covering' or missions agency. Its director and founder John Cava was one of my teachers in Bible College, and oversaw my internship …
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Recently I saw another post by someone on Facebook about something a lot of charismatics and Pentecostals pray for. I used to be like this, and I'm not judging those who pray for this. But I have …
I originally recorded this podcast episode in early January. I knew when recording it I was going to hold on to it since the content of the discussion was ever-green. I knew I was going to be …
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My last post, Real Discipleship is Very Inconvenient to the Flesh has gotten a lot of traffic, and a few comments on social media that it merits following up on it real quick. Like I said, from …
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I just finished recording a podcast with Stephen Crosby a couple of mornings ago. Since it's summer break here and most of our students have gone home, I'm freed up to get some writing, editing …
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I meant to post this blog last week but my internet connection froze part way through the writing process which I was doing directly here on Wordpress and not offline. As a result I lost the last …
“Go therefore and get people of all nations to raise their hands and make decisions for Christ, and maybe baptizing a few of them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy …
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Like I mentioned in last Thursday's blog post, while I was in the jungle of Pucallpa I taught on information, imitation and innovation. In today's post I'm going to focus on that last part, …
"For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me. That is why I …
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I've been thinking a lot lately about writing a succinct blog post on what is discipleship since the majority of the time that I talk to a few other missionaries or pastors, I find myself …
