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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Category: Know and live from the Scriptures
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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Is Your Self Perception Twisted?
So—Jesus says, “The eye is the lamp of the body…” (Matthew 6:22ff). He says, “If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if…… Read more “Is Your Self Perception Twisted?”
What Is Your Mental Image of God?
In past posts I’ve mentioned Matthew 6 where Jesus speaks strongly about how important it is to “see” and how devastating it is when we don’t see…… Read more “What Is Your Mental Image of God?”
Can Faith and Fear Co-Exist
Years ago, I sat with an older mentor friend and his wife. He was going through a very scary health issue. He and his wife are people…… Read more “Can Faith and Fear Co-Exist”