Building a Disciplemaking Culture in Your Church

Building a Disciplemaking Culture in Your Church

“A disciplemaking culture? What is that?” No one should be surprised at the confusion this phrase causes. Its two main concepts, disciplemaking and culture, are famously difficult to pin down. Since we already chased down a robust definition of disciplemaking, let’s...
Enduring Leadership Lessons

Enduring Leadership Lessons

No other crucible does more to develop personal wisdom than the crucible of enduring challenge. Although we wish our life and our leadership responsibilities were consistent from day to day, they rarely are. Though every leader faces enormous challenges that require a...
Leadership Paradigms from Jesus

Leadership Paradigms from Jesus

Jesus’s Paradigmatic Leadership Jesus’s words and actions in the upper room before his crucifixion provide paradigmatic guidance from the New Testament on leadership. Jesus gathers a group of leaders—his disciples—who are shaping the movement he began and will...
Warfare and Royalty

Warfare and Royalty

PREPARING FOR OUR MISSION, PART 3 Embracing Spiritual Warfare and Royalty Promoted to Royalty Understanding the Spiritual Battlefield Your world is at war. You were born into a world of chaos and destruction, pain, and division that so often typifies war. And as with...
Preparing for Mission, Part 2

Preparing for Mission, Part 2

Getting Childish Isaiah 11:6 (New International Version) “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.”   See Yourself as Childish: Isaiah 11:6 envisions...