Measuring the Impact of Rooted (And a Tool For You to Use)
Jesus commands us in Matthew 28 to make disciples. Following this command in Acts 2, the first church was birthed and “the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” You may be a...
Jesus says, “Don’t worry” three times in Matthew 6:25-34. Now, in 25 years of marriage, telling my wife to calm down has worked exactly zero times. Telling yourself or someone else to stop or chil...
The Ultimate Aim of Repentance (and 3 Steps Toward It)
Martin Luther, when he posted the ninety-five theses on the church door in Wittenberg, likely did not foresee the reformation that would unfold from that act. While many are familiar with the ninet...
The Most Important Life Stage of a Small Group
This fall my oldest began his senior year of high school. As we took the obligatory first-day-of-school picture, emotions began to rise as I realized this would be the last such photo of my son. As...
Don’t Just “Do” Discipleship; Build a Discipleship Culture
Culture is the summation of the values, thoughts, attitudes, and actions of those persons within it. According to John Kotter, culture is more simply, “the way we do things around here.” And every ...
3 Common Postures People Assume at Church
There are different postures we can take when we go to church. Yes, I know some will say, “We don’t go to church; we are the Church.” While I understand the sentiment that we want to be a people w...
5 Steps for Drawing the Disconnected into Discipleship
Making disciples in an ever-changing world has been a focal point for the Church for millennia. Today there’s even more conversation around connection and belonging as fewer people live near family...