Companionship dismantles the striving spirit that needs to perform or achieve more. When a person believes they are truly loved and known, they become unencumbered with proving their merit.
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Category: Know and live from the Scriptures
Reaching for More
Is there a need at the root of this dissatisfaction— to be seen, known, and loved? If there is, the answer may not lie in acquisition of a thing, but in engagement with a Person.
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Life as It Was Meant to Be
At the heart of the question “Is there more?” is the longing for zoe life, a life of vitality and fullness.
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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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A Crisis of Biblical Proportions
As a college student, my early disciplers and mentors passed along to me a heart for the Scriptures and the know-how to study and incorporate their truths in my life—what a gift! But how do you do that, especially with busy people? We hear it from every direction, people saying, “The emerging generations are losing their grip on God’s Word.” If we lose the Scriptures, we lose the war.
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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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How To Interpret the World
As Earth-dwellers, we have many influences on us. Especially in modern times, with the abundance of information at our fingertips, we face important choices in how we interpret the issues of our day, our culture, and our own heart and responses to them.
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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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