by dane | Feb 20, 2024 | Church Blog, homepage slider, Uncategorized
What are the most important words in discipleship? Can we boil it down to just a few key ideas? If you had to use just three words what would yours be? Words have great power. We have all experienced a powerful speech by a coach, a politician or a parent that moved...
by dane | Feb 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
February marks the forth month in my new role. I am enjoying it and sensing that I am already making a contribution. I am a part of The Navigators one million disciplemaker strategy. This role expands the spectrum of ministry expressions. Let me unpack what my new...
by dane | Jan 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Prayer is simply a conversation with God. It can be uttered by children beautifully and by mature adults, wonderfully nuanced for all life brings. Tim Keller wrote, “Prayer, then is both awe and intimacy, struggle, and reality.” That rich description of all it could...
by mindsled | Jan 12, 2024 | Disciple SELF, Uncategorized
The disciples had watched Jesus closely and had noted something. They knew he clearly understood this topic better than them. Jesus practiced it at a much higher level than they had seen in their own lives and the lives of the spiritual leaders around them. The more...
by dane | May 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I was a boy, my dad made an announcement at dinner that we were moving. My brothers and sister loved the town and neighborhood where we lived. There were lots of kids on our street and gracious neighbors. Dad’s dinnertime news threw us all. Soon we were boarding...
by dane | Apr 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Culture has a magnetic power to transform us. It will build into us how we speak, the values we live by, the stories we tell, and what we do. David Brooks echoes this in his book, The Second Mountain: “Never underestimate the power of the environment you work in to...
