Vintage Saints and Sinners by Karen Wright Marsh is full of inspiring stories like this one about people we have come to know as saints, but they are also people struggled with doubt, depression, anxiety. These stories are so beautifully written. Th
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Movements are real... and are happening around the world today,
especially among Muslims.
September 6-8, 2018
(Thursday night 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., all day Friday, half-day on Saturday)
Compass Church, Wheaton
520 E. Roosevelt Road,
The "Quote/UnQuote" Interview with Reggie McNeal
Phil Miglioratti talks with Reggie McNeal, author of "Kingdom Collaborators: Eight Signature Practices of Leaders Who Turn The World Upside Down"
Phil ~ Your first words jump out: "Everyone know
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Chris, the pastor of a church Roy and I were working with, frequently challenged the congregation to become disciple makers. But only a few people were catching the vision. Even for these precious few it
The "Quote/Unquote" Interview:
Phil Miglioratti talks with Dave Workman,
Author of "Elemental Leaders: Four Essentials Every Leader Needs...And Every Church Must Have"
Phil: Dave, before I ask you to respond to several quotes from your book, pleas
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CANTON, Ga. (BP) --This column was published at Baptist Press, bpnews.net. Used by permission.
Years back, the church often sang the hymn "Trust and Obey." It offered a great truth: To be happy in Je
Read more…Early in my work as a pastor, I often found maintaining a regular consistent prayer life a real challenge. I’ve since realized that one reason was I didn’t see the connection between praying and leading. Praying seemed a
Read more…Christians Are the Soul of the World
The following is an excerpt from the “Letter to Diognetus” written in the early second century, soon after the time of the apostles.
Our role on earth isn’t easy, but it is essential.
Ch
Breakdown of the Disciple Factories
Bt Thom Schultz on HoylSoup.com
The disciple-making machine is broken. Though most church leaders would say discipleship is a crucial part of their mission and ministry, they fear it’s not working.
A recent Barn
Read more…Annual Spiritual Check-up
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets h
Read more…Learning Is Often Preceded by Unlearning
Many people are educated well beyond their capacity for obedience. For those who have grown up in church, it can be easy to assume that learning is the sole way in which we grow as followers of Christ. Sadly
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Interview with Alan Briggs, author of
Guardrails: Six Principles for a Multiplying Church
Phil ~ In the book's foreword, Pastor Dave Ferguson writes: "Guardrails would have helped us" (when I was planting our church because)... "it offers a simple u
Read more…Webster dictionary Definition of disciple:
1- someone who accepts and helps to spread the teachings of a famous person
2- one of a group of 12 men who were sent out to spread the teachings of Jesus Christ
I fin
Read more…Read a Discipleship.Network exclusive excerpt:
Leading People to their own Discovery
Verhey explains the Conversation Continuum ~ a key to building relationships that produce disciplemaking disciples who have Gospel-enlightening conversations with
Read more…Make A Difference ~ Make Disciples
The word disciple means “learner,” so a disciple of Jesus is a learner of Jesus. No matter how young or old someone is, being a learner of Jesus is the goal of that person’s life. A Christian is never be a know-it-
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PHIL ~ Skip, what prompted you to write this book?
SKIP ~ I wrote The Leader’s SEEcret because of my heart’s burden to teach and encourage the Church-at-large—includin
Read more…Interview with the authors of the new release “Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom In Your Neighborhood”
...wth thanks to LOVE2020.com
Phil Miglioratti ~ What prompted you to partner together to write this book?
Lance Ford
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