Category Archives: Discipleship

Good Friday Sunrise Worship Service

“Surely, he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows…”  Isaiah 53:4 Every year, we gather with friends and family at the beach to worship God at sunrise every Good Friday.  It’s become a tradition for our family.  It was started … Continue reading

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It’s What God Does That Matters

About that title, I bet some of you are thinking, “yeah, that’s what you say when a ministry isn’t doing well.”  But no, I mean it.  It’s what God does that matters.  Everything else is filler.  And I’ll go beyond … Continue reading

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Nine Time-ly Ideas for Building Up Your Missional Community

To build a missional community, spend time with one another. That’s the number one lesson I’m learning. I haven’t been at this long, but this is what I am learning.  In addition to organized Up-In-Out activities, do this: Hang out. … Continue reading

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Getting Missional. Going “Out”

So, we’re getting ready to go “out” to support Young Life. Last night, the Cimarrone Missional Community gathered.   We ate. We worshiped.  I taught briefly on our Kingdom responsibilities as God’s children.  Then Valerie Frank and Pat Thomas told … Continue reading

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Spiritual Growth and the Discipleship Square

How do people grow spiritually?  That’s been a serious question for me for a number of years.  Willow Creek released several books based on the REVEAL survey taken by something like 400,000 people in churches.  It (ahem) revealed that many, … Continue reading

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