Category: discipleship

  • How to Break Bad Habits

    How to Break Bad Habits

    This is why I love Tim Keller. Here is a quote that packs a lot of power in defeating enslaving habits If you are a Christian and you are dealing with enslaving habits, it’s not enough to say, ‘Bad Christian, stop it.’ And it is not enough to beat yourself up or merely try harder…

  • How to be Practically Humble

    How to be Practically Humble

    We must put humility on. This doesn’t mean we fake it, but that we begin to do it, even though it takes effort. Putting on humility isn’t easy. After all, it’s not easy to be humble when we’re as great as we are. But it can be done. Here are a few suggestions for how…

  • Therapy has Taken Over Theology

    I was having dinner with some new friends when one of the man shared how he is going through a Christian program right now to trace whatever hurt and why his life is like how it is today. After weeks of going through the program – the reason for his miserable life was traced because…

  • Members or Missionaries?

    If your church is full of members, you get an occasional missionary. If your church is full of missionaries, the rest is just about geography. Most churches don’t send missionaries because they don’t have any. – Erwin McManus Pastors and church leaders make a deliberate effort to turn members into missionaries. Every member is a minister and…

  • How Discipleship Works in Real Life

    How Discipleship Works in Real Life

    Guest blog by Stefanie Villarin I believe God has orchestrated everything to happen for a reason  in my spiritual walk. Remember, nothing is coincidence in Him. He might have planned this day 5 or 6 years ago…. So since I cannot contain it to myself, let me share with you my insights and testimony as well,…