If a flourishing life is an abiding life, we cannot flourish without a dependent relationship with Jesus.
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Category: Grow in relationship with God
While You Are Making Resolutions, How About This One?
If only 20% of resolutions make it past the month of February, how can disciplemakers be part of the minority who follow their intentions through to action?
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Don’t Leave Jesus in the Cradle!
Pam and I love nativity scenes. Each year I love hiding baby Jesus from my and having Him appear back in the cradle Christmas morning! My experience tells me, however, that many professing Christians have left Jesus in the cradle, on the cross, or somewhere in heaven.
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Cinnamon Rolls and Wild Truck Rides
In my early 20s, I was in a morning Bible study with Richard who became one of my lifelong mentors. As the time for one meeting came, Rich pulled up in his pickup truck and called out, “Jump in the back, guys…”
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Six Basics for Lasting Disciplemaking
There are six basic principles for raising up generations of Christ followers who will keep going, through all seasons of life. Over the next few months we’ll look at these principles that have set The Navigators apart for decades in their focus on building deeply into the lives of people, equipping them to keep going and growing over the long haul.
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Why Jesus Isn’t My Buddy
As soon as I mention the first topic in our series on characteristics of a disciplemaker, you may be tempted to say, “Oh, that’s discipleship 101! No need to read this.” Not so fast. I suspect that we, like the religious leaders of Jesus’ day, may need a reminder of easily forgotten, life-altering truths.
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This Is More Foundational than Disciplemaking
Several years ago, a gathering of Navigator leaders prayed and sought God in developing a short list of top priority skills or behaviors to build into the lives of people we call disciplemakers.
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What the World Really Needs
We read the headlines and experience the conflict. Around the world and even among our own families and friends there is a weight of desperation—people are lonely and without hope.
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From Ashes to Beauty
Pam and I lost our home and all our earthly belongings in the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs, back in June of 2012.
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Do You Crater When You Hit Life’s Potholes?
Without a doubt, how we view our daily circumstances plays a huge role in whether we approach the day with courage or with fear.
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