Most Leaders Could Use More Friends in Low Places
We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s good to have friends in high places.” The junkyard (and I have lots of great, junkyard lessons in my book, Salvaged) turns that [Read more...]
Articles by The Disciplemaker Team
Leadership Will Never Be Right if Your Heart is Wrong
Leaders ultimately are judged by their actions, which Jesus teaches flow from the heart. Some of the stuff that came out of my dad’s junkyard would have made Dr. [Read more...]
Sometimes a Solution Can Be Worse than the Problem
I was in seventh grade when Mom and Dad bought a run-down cattle ranch about thirty miles northeast of San Jose. Besides the sprawling but neglected ranch house, there were [Read more...]
Why Practice Hospitality?
Why should I practice hospitality in spiritual friendship? To me, hospitality is a natural thing you do in friendship. You open your home to your friend whenever she needs to [Read more...]
The Ripple Effect of Service
The amazing thing about service is that it rarely returns void, even if we don’t see the end results ourselves. Service has a way of inspiring others to see the areas of [Read more...]
The Gift of Hospitality
When I offer hospitality, something amazing happens—so much more than I have anything to do with. An exchange takes place. Our guests bring who they are with them and [Read more...]
What Picking Up My Daughter From School Taught Me About Surrender
One year when my daughter was in middle school, I had the unusual opportunity to pick her up from school every day. I worked downtown and we lived in the suburbs, so this was [Read more...]
What My Daughter with Down Syndrome Helped Me Understand About Sin
We arrive home, and I unload the bags while Penny unpacks her backpack. “Do you have any homework?” I ask. “Nope,” she says. “Well, are you working on anything at [Read more...]
What Do You Want Jesus to Teach You?
As Christians, we want to be like Jesus. We desire to think as Jesus would and react in a manner that resembles him. We want to speak words of life and to love selflessly. [Read more...]
Two Choices for Dancing in No Man’s Land
By Brian Jennings, author of Dancing in No Man’s Land: Moving with Peace and Truth in a Hostile World (NavPress 2018) There are times when the path in front of us looks [Read more...]