Could the money spent on airfare, food, and lodging on a mission trip truly be better spent on the locals themselves in a host country? Yes. No. Or maybe. A few weeks ago I was …
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Embracing The Imperfect Journey Toward Maturity In Christ
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, …
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Information, Imitation and Innovation in Discipleship
"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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The Reality of Discipleship: More than Just Sunday Sermons
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 …
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Speaking The Truth In Love As a Mask for Abrasiveness
There's a video making the rounds on the internet right now, of a pastor throwing a hissy fit from the pulpit. When I shared the video on social media, we got into a bit of a discussion on …
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Heartstone: God With Us In Our Suffering | Podcast with Tim Young
As some of you know I've been quite busy, with having gotten married last month and all the wedding prep leading up to it and not to mention teaching in our ministry school on weekday mornings …
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Do You Know The Difference Between Immaturity and Hypocrisy?
Recently a famous celebrity model and actress was in an interview stating that she's going to church with her husband and baby. She also stated that she speaks in tongues and sees miraculous …
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Are You A Reproducer of Reproducers?
"And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the …
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Can discipleship truly be done long-distance?
Discipleship can no more be done by long distance teaching than a pot on a wheel can be formed by a potter sitting in another country. Discipleship is a conforming to the image of Jesus …
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Discipleship is not a Program
I have spent the last year or more living in a missional community in Peru, where discipleship is a core value of ours--if not THE focus of our mission. If you've spent any time on my blog in the …
Church Leadership: Is 50 the New 30?
Several months ago I was reading another blog post by Doug Paul, whose blog I follow to some degree since he works with 3DM, who I've been learning a lot from in regard to discipleship. I …
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Do Pastors Think They’re Doing More Discipling Than They Really Are?
I just came across this post in my Google alerts on discipleship and thought it was worth a look. Study: Pastors See Discipleship Progress Despite Lack of Regular ... (author unknown) "While …
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Why I Love Podcasting
Recently this year, I had been re-evaluating what impact I'm having in the lives of other people, especially here on the ground in Peru where I'm a "missionary". I've often struggled with the …
Are You Making The Best Use of Your Life?
It looks like I'm not the only one having epiphanies about making disciples. J. Lee Grady, the former editor of Charisma magazine and the director of The Mordecai …
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The New Jezebel — “You’re Just Wounded!”
This week I had another sacred cow barbecue with Stephen Crosby, S.J. Hill. This time we covered 'the new Jezebel'--which is nothing more than a newly packaged old lie, which basically …
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Why I Harp On Discipleship More Than I Did Before
Greetings my fellow peeps on the interwebs. I apologize for the lack of consistent updates this week to date. I try to post several times a week, and even daily when possible, which is why I …
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More Thoughts On Calibrating Invitation and Challenge
If you haven't read my previous post on Invitation and Challenge, it's not mandatory reading for today's post to make sense, but this is going to be another batch of thoughts on the same subject. …
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Revive What? | Podcast with SJ Hill & Dr. Stephen R. Crosby
I recorded another podcast with SJ Hill and Dr Stephen R. Crosby last week and posted it live this morning. There are a lot of "controversial" topics and grey areas in the Bible that are seldom …
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What Is Missional Community? | Podcast with Mark Burgess & Shaun Wissmann
Join us this week for our podcast discussion with Mark Burgess, and Shaun Wissmann, both missionaries and serving in missional community in Chorrillos, Peru. We shoot the breeze and discuss the …
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Invitation vs. Challenge
I've been thinking a lot about encouragement and rebuke. As I progress more in the missional community I'm a part of, here in Chorrillos, Peru, I'm learning more and more about different ways of …
What Does Proper “Church Discipline” Look Like?
A little while not too long ago I was trying to write a series of blogs out of Matthew 18. That was where How Long Can You Hold Your Breath Underwater? and Would You Cut off Your Hand If Your …
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Can You Effectively Make Disciples Using ONLY The Internet?
For those of you who don't get why, as a missionary, I "spend so much time on the Internet" each day here's why; the last time I preached, there were probably upwards of 30 people in the room. I …
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The Church, Change, and Adapting
I was having these thoughts and thought of adding them in yesterday's post, Are Bookstore Chain Closures Necessarily A BAD Thing?, but decided to cut it off at the point where I did and continue …
Discipleship–-Getting Back to the Basics | Podcast with Mark Burgess
Join us again as I talk with missionary Mark Burgess about the necessity of discipleship, but also the practicalities. An important point that seemed to be emphasized is that you influence and …
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