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,
One of the IVP books that I go back to regularly is Invitation to Solitude and Silence by Ruth Haley Barton. She was the first person to introduce me to the idea of quiet and solitude and sitting with God, something that has been such a gift to me ov
Read more…There are no true disciple-making movements in North America right now.
That statement may come as a surprise, but it is the conclusion of most (if not all) missions experts. We have mere sparks of movements in the United States and Canada, but no tr
Read more…Q & A with Michael Frost Author of Keep Christianity Weird
Michael Frost is a leading voice in the international missional church movement. He is author of more than a dozen books, including Surprise the World and Keep Christianity Weird. He is the
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Our churches are often suffering from a lack of fully-formed disciples because, in part, there is a large divide in our thinking --- a divide between evangelism (the announcing that God has made a way back to him) and discipleship (the intentional g
Read more…Nine Practices That Heal Our Broken Humanity
This book shows what it means to be the church, the new humanity in Jesus Christ, as Paul writes about in Ephesians 2:15. This is the biblical basis for our understanding of what it means to become new
Small groups are no longer making disciples at the rate they once were. For many churches, the purpose of groups is to assimilate new people and keep 
them connected so they won’t leave. E
Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill
Healing Our Broken Humanity shows what it means to be the church, the new humanity in Jesus Christ, as Paul writes
You may not know this, but Discipleship.org’s roots are associated with our partner and sister ministry Exponential.
Most people know Exponential as the world’s largest gathering of church multiplication leaders and church planters. The truth is,
Read more…Phil Miglioratti Interview
Phil: Dave, before I ask you to respond to several quotes from your book, please explain why the message of “Elemental Leaders” is so critical.
In the Old Testament, we see a repeating pattern of the rise-and-fall of I
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Dear Discipleship-First Tribe,
I am still basking in the afterglow of our best National Disciple Making Forum to date, which we hosted a couple of weeks
FOR YOU PERSONALLY—
HOW TO USE THE 50 DAY DISCIPLESHIP CALENDAR—“SEEING CLEARLY… GOD’S WAY!”
This Discipleship Calendar focuses on 1 Peter, handling pressures and the displeasures of others by seeing the way God sees. It can be a personal adventure w
He sees you not as just another neighbor or co-worker. He has heard you acknowledge a strong belief in Jesus Christ as someone real and special to
