At this time of year, many people are inclined to make new year's resolutions. Unfortunately, it has become somewhat proverbial that these resolutions are doomed to failure, abandoned and discarded after only a few short weeks. Perhaps for this reaso
Read more…Discipleship happens in all different shapes and sizes. Yes, there are myriad programs out there that have laid out a step-by-step process for discipleship and many of them are quite effective, but there is no one "right" or even "best" way to discip
Read more…In The Trellis and the Vine (Matthias Media, 2009) authors Colin Marshall and Tony Payne compare the process of discipleship to parenthood. Although developing skills through courses and programs is helpful, it takes much more. To truly develop peopl
Read more…Although it is not a book that has anything to do with discipleship per se, with Christmas fast approaching I decided to pull out one of my old favorites for a re-read: The Jesus I Never Knew (Zondervan, 1995) by Philip Yancey. I love the way this bo
Read more…Larry Osborne, in his very good book Sticky Church (Zondervan, 2008) writes about the difficulty of training leaders who are "overscheduled and burnt out on unnecessary meetings" as a result of having no "wiggle room in their schedules" because "It w
Read more…An excellent resource from the author of Man in the Mirror (Zondervan, 1989), one of the better recent books I have seen for Men's ministry is No Man Left Behind (Moody, 2006) by Patrick Morley. What I really like about this book is that it avoids te
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