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Church Discipleship Leadership Pastoring

September 2, 2021

Leadership Development

We are so excited about the release of our newest resource "Strong Church: Video Series + Workbook" that we want to offer everyone a glimpse into this new content. The Strong Church Video Series + Workbook is designed to assist you,…

Community Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Family Missional Community Missionary Servant

August 31, 2021

What Does Community Look Like for You This Fall?

Early in the pandemic, it was said, “We are all in the same storm, but different boats.” This has proven to be true over the past year and a half, especially when it comes to missional communities or community groups.…

by Duke Revard 0

Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership Pastoring

August 23, 2021

15 Commitments of a Strong Church

“WE ARE ALL START-UPS NOW” This was Andy Crouch’s insightful prediction early on about the coming fallout for organizations in light of the COVID-19 global pandemic. While many did not want to believe this was their situation, coming into Fall…

Discipleship Family Mission Missional Community Missionary Servant

August 12, 2021

Safety Amongst the Thorns

“My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your…

by Kendrick Banks 0

Bible & Theology Discipleship Gospel

August 10, 2021

Humility is Better Than Rightness

Often we clarify our convictions hoping to strengthen unity—“Here is what I believe… Who’s with me?” But what if a doctrine becomes destructive or divisive not because of what it is, but because of how we hold it? Isn’t it…

by Brad Watson 0

Discipleship Family Gospel Resources

August 5, 2021

Study Guides for Missional Communities

A missional community is a way to organize the church to gather and send groups of people on the mission of God. Simply put, a missional community is a group of people who are learning to follow Jesus together in…

Discipleship Foundations Mission Missional Community

July 29, 2021

3 Key Environments to All-of-Life Discipleship

All-of-life discipleship—learning to follow, trust, and obey Jesus in the everyday stuff of life and training others to do the same—requires submitting to and obeying God’s Word in three key environments: life on life, life in community, and life…

by Ben Connelly 0

Discipleship Family Missional Community

July 27, 2021

Jesus is Both the Motive and the Goal

This is an excerpt of Chapter One from Ben Connelly's newest book A Field Guide for Genuine Community, © Moody Publishers, 2021. Get your copy here or wherever you buy books. “We've Filed for Divorce.” That bombshell froze…

Discipleship Gospel Identity Mission

July 20, 2021

A Life of Discipleship

Part of our own discipleship is “paying it forward”: seeing God not only work in us, for our own discipleship, but also seeing him work through us, for others’ discipleship The person and work of Jesus cannot remain as…

by Ben Connelly 0

Discipleship Family Missional Community

July 15, 2021

We Are a Spiritual Family

This is an excerpt of Chapter One from Ben Connelly's newest book A Field Guide for Genuine Community, © Moody Publishers, 2021. Get your copy here or wherever you buy books. Throughout over twenty years of helping lead…

by Ben Connelly 0

Church Discipleship Family Gospel Missional Community

July 6, 2021

There Must Be Something More

This is an excerpt of Chapter One from Ben Connelly's newest book A Field Guide for Genuine Community, © Moody Publishers, 2021. Get your copy here or wherever you buy books. Most of the Bible’s commands that translate into…

Bible & Theology Church Coaching Discipleship Gospel Leadership Pastoring Spiritual Growth

June 29, 2021

5 Ways To Equip Disciples as Gospel Ministers

Church leader? Your job is not to do the ministry for the church, but to equip the church to be gospel ministers. Habakkuk 2:14 speaks of a day when “The knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the…

Church Discipleship Foundations Missional Community

June 16, 2021

Why Join Soma School?

Soma School is a gospel-centered, missional ecclesiology immersion experience which exists to see pastors, planters, and leaders thoroughly gripped by the gospel. Soma School is a combination of white-board theology sessions, personal processing, and immersion within the life of a…

Discipleship Foundations Gospel Holy Spirit Missional Community Spiritual Growth

June 14, 2021

How Do Spiritual Gifts Help Us Make Disciples?

Today we are releasing a sneak peek at one of four new videos in the Q+A series with Jeff Vanderstelt. We love getting to interact with your questions at live events, and want to bring that experience online through…

Discipleship Mission Missional Community Missionary

June 10, 2021

Jesus’ Call to Come as We Are

Prior to meeting Jesus, we were lost and broken in desperate need for a Savior. However, such a necessity was not bound to our pre-salvific state. As believers who securely hold salvation by the name of Christ and are…

by Brad Watson 0

Church Discipleship Pastoring Spiritual Growth

May 27, 2021

We Choose Exhaustion

Throughout the years, I have come across a growing number of people on the cusp of burnout in communities and organizations across the spectrum of the gospel-centered discipleship movement. Many were close friends, few were acquaintances, and one of them…

Discipleship Foundations Gospel Missional Community

May 25, 2021

How Do You Hear From God?

Today we are offering a second sneak peek video into a new series with Jeff Vanderstelt that dives into your most asked questions. We love getting to interact with your questions at live events and have been encouraged by your response…

Discipleship Gospel Shepherding Life Issues Spiritual Growth

May 20, 2021

Living on Mission This Summer

School is wrapping up, the days are getting longer, and with COVID restrictions easing, we are looking forward to making the most of this summer! Plans are being made for vacations, weddings, camping trips, family reunions, and playing in…

Discipleship Foundations Gospel Missional Community

May 19, 2021

Are Missional Communities Just a Passing Fad?

We love getting to interact with your questions at live events and this year we are bringing that experience online in our new Q+A Series. How do you disciple in a busy, individualistic culture? How do you learn to…

by Cassie Langford 0

Discipleship Gospel Shepherding Life Issues Spiritual Growth

May 6, 2021

A Call to Taste the Bread of Life

“Who will help me plant my seeds?” asked the Little Red Hen. “Not I,” said the dog. “Not I,” said the cat. “Not I,” said the duck. “Then, I will plant them myself,” said the Little Red Hen, and…

by Bill Clem 0

Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership

April 19, 2021

Reframing Where We Are

This blog is an excerpt from our recently released Leader Cohort Series. We designed this series of videos and guides to help groups of pastors and leaders to meet together in cohorts for the purpose of growing in health, learning…

Church Discipleship Foundations Resources

April 13, 2021

What Does Membership Have To Do With Gospel Saturation?

This year has left us all longing for more… more than pandemic fears and isolation, political unrest, racial injustices, economic challenges, and the weariness in our own souls. We long for hope, peace, and joy. We long for…

Discipleship Foundations Gospel

March 25, 2021

Gospel Fluency for Our Neighbors

This year has presented many opportunities to speak of Jesus with our friends and neighbors. After all we’ve gone through, our neighbors' needs and emotions create space to enter into their real experiences and point them to the truth…

Discipleship Gospel Spiritual Growth Uncategorized

March 23, 2021

Hope in the Grave

There is always hope in darkness, because there was Hope lying in a grave for three days—He who now is seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven. Can you imagine what it must have been like…

Discipleship Foundations Gospel

March 17, 2021

Gospel Fluency for Our Fear

Pastors and leaders, have you felt out of control over this past year? If we’re honest, many of us have been filled with fear about our churches, our leadership, and the future of pastoral ministry as a whole. In the…

Discipleship Foundations Gospel

March 11, 2021

Gospel Fluency for Our Sadness

The past year has been filled with loss, chaos, and sadness for many. How does the gospel speak to our sadness in this moment? In the video below, Jeff Vanderstelt shared how God has given us the gift of…

by Cassie Langford 0

Discipleship Spiritual Growth Women

March 9, 2021

The Way through the Wilderness

Last year when the Angel Soft and Lysol—along with staple foods like Ramen and Chef Boyardee—disappeared from our grocery shelves, I was strangely filled with a bit of anticipation. I thought it could be the wilderness that would teach…

Discipleship Gospel Missional Community Spiritual Growth

March 2, 2021

Communities of Commitment

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the…

by Kevin Platt 0

Discipleship Foundations Gospel Missional Community Pastoring Spiritual Growth

February 24, 2021

What Story Am I a Part Of?

Written by Kevin Platt and Chris Gonzalez If you have ever led a missional community or a congregation of missional communities, you have fielded some form of at least a few, if not all, of these questions: Who is God?…

by Kendrick Banks 0

Discipleship Family Gospel Missionary Servant Spiritual Growth

February 18, 2021

Keeping Lent Meaningful

In three of the gospel accounts, Jesus, prior to beginning His ministry, was driven by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan. For 40 days He went without food and the comforts of life, yet He…

by Nate Parry 0

Church Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Gospel Resources Spiritual Growth

February 16, 2021

The Ultimate Aim and Reward of Lent

I am often reminded by one of my friends that the ultimate prize for Christians is simply that we get Jesus. This is the ultimate aim and reward of Lent. The season of Lent is upon us. My first encounter…

by Brad Watson 0

Discipleship Family Gospel Leadership Missional Community Missionary Spiritual Growth

February 11, 2021

Why Practice Lent as a Community on Mission?

What is Lent? Lent is a forty-day-long journey through daily and sometimes hourly reminders of the gospel because our stomachs are hungry or our hearts are longing for something we seemingly can’t live without. Lent and the celebration of Easter…

by Cassie Langford 0

Discipleship Missionary Spiritual Growth Uncategorized Women

February 9, 2021

His Endless Love

A few years ago a lady who had lost her first husband to brain cancer came to me before she married her second husband concerned for her daughters. She was worried that they would doubt her love for them…

by Nathan Cedarland 0