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Transformation ...
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Looking more like Christ ...
Helping others to live it out
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My Ministry with The Navs
What do you do all day Dane?? Here's a great video that highlights what we do in Church Discipleship Ministry in The Navigators. The big vision is building disciple-making cultures in churches that live out the Great Commission one relationship at a time....
Alongsider Clinic On Saturday Oct 26th
I am very excited to host our first Alongsider Clinic in Akron. This is great disciple-making workshop based off the book "The Ways of the Alongsider." The author Bill Mowry and I will be running the interactive event. The Nav staff and I have used this book to coach...
Alongsider Clinic: strengthening your disciple-making
It has been my privilege to walk with pastors and leaders as they consider their impact on others. One of the new tools that I’ve bumped into is the workbook “The Ways of the Alongsider.” What I have really liked about this book is that it is a workbook to process new...
Left Brained Vision
I am so enthused for this coming year. There is a lot of ministry before me. This whole year has been upward trending with growing number of ways to serve the church. Some days I am stunned at a new option to assist pastors! To get it all on paper I've described two...
Right Brained Vision
I am so enthused for this coming year. There is a lot of ministry before me. This whole year has been upward trending with growing number of ways to serve the church. Some days I am stunned at a new option to assist pastors! To get it all on paper I've described two...
Day 233 One Year Bible
Here's some powerful verses from Ps 37. I must think and consider these... NIV 8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. ...fretting one of my worst habit. ...yikes I must stop it 22, 23 If the Lord delights in a man's way, he makes...
Alongsider Clinic in Tyler
My friend Doug Clark invited me down to his church in Tyler, TX to do an Alongsider Clinic on the 27th of July. Grace Church has a wonderful staff and congregation. We had such a great time together thinking and connecting. One hundred of us gathered for the five hour...
Building Faith
Summit Faith2 Mark I've been thinking a lot about faith. I actually have a love/hate relationship with faith. I love it because it liberates me, redeems me. It gives me a wonderful hope that there is something beyond what I see. God really is there. God is more...
May ’13 Newsletter
In this edition Pastor Robbie Davis shares his experience of going the disciplemaking workbook called The Alongsider. Also in this newsletter updates from Discipler Makers training & Scranton Road Bible Church workshop. Click here for the full details. Nav News...
Day 80 One Year in the Bible: Obedience
Ok it's only taken me 80 days to write something down from my year in the Bible. I've been thinking about it but 80 days past by. Here's the theme from this morning ..obedience. When I looked at all these passages today they were connected with it. (Numbers 32-33/Lk...
Three levels of Discipleship
Understanding greater impact
Making a bigger impact
What will make the biggest impact on others? How can you help someone for the good? There is nothing so satisfying as helping others. So what will help them the most? This is a great little test that will speak volumes to you. In just a minute you'll understand more...
Forgotten area of church discipleship, part 2
Speaking of things forgotten, I was on a run the other day and I thought, "I've forgotten something on my Discipleship Theatre diagram." Yep much has been forgotten. Before you read this post go back to look at my original post that explains my Discipleship Theatre...
Forgotten area of church discipleship
A few years ago we took our girls to see Peter Pan in the Cleveland theatre district. Mary Martin popularized the stage rendition in the 50′s to wide acclaim. The depth of the show with the orchestra, the lighting, Peter Pan flying with harnesses made for quite a good...
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