Social Media Ideas for Relational Discipleship

4 Convicting Reasons You Need Discipleship, No Matter Your Age

Rethinking ‘reaching’ the next generation

Discipleship is not the church’s ‘next-generation strategy’. It is the church&r...

Five Ways God’s People Minister God’s Grace to Each Other

One of a dozen-plus reasons I love church-based counseling is that it maximizes the ministry Christ’s body can play in the lives of those we counsel. Our counselees need more than...

Monday's Catch: 'You Can’t Have Discipleship Without Evangelism' And More

You Can’t Have Discipleship Without Evangelism The call to discipleship must always begin with evangelism: telling the lost about the life-changing gospel. What I have observed is...

Preparing Teenagers for the Rest of Their Lives

Five or ten years from now, teenagers will need to find and join a church of their own. They will learn to know others and be known by others; to receive care and give it. This can...

Turn Your Church Data Into Deeper Discipleship

This post is in partnership with Subsplash, written by Jeff Harvey, Senior Content Manager. Subsplash is one platform that does it all—build your church community with the only pla...

Study guide for “The power of connection”

We are not meant to be Christians alone, whether individuals or congregations, synods or denominations. Interdependence is hardwired into the Christian witness. For example, in tea...

Rick Warren Daily Devotional 21st October 2026 – Five Benefits of Belonging to a Church Family, Part 2

Culled from: Daily Devotionals Today: Open Heavens, RoR & More - The Devotionals.. DAILY HOPE WITH RICK WARREN 21ST OCTOBER 2026. Daily Hope Devotional by Pastor Rick Warren fo...

New Barna X CIY Study Helps Youth Ministers Adapt for Today’s Teenagers

The younger generations are hungry for a place to belong, and that is what the gospel gives us through the local church. In Jesus, we who were once far off have been brought near b...

Billy Graham Devotional 3 September 2026 – The Responsibility of Discipleship

Celebrating God’s Goodness (E3)

Once you’re in a right relationship with the Lord, He helps you develop right relationships with others. This has been a theme in Nancy’s teaching over the years! She’s helping you...

Everyday Evangelism for Students

You’ve seen the moment before: a student lingers after the youth group, the room is louder than usual, or something’s on their mind. You can feel it, but what do you do with it, an...

Formation, Not Force: Shepherding a Child’s Faith in a Choose-Your-Own World

Formation is rarely immediate, and it is never effortless. The very things that feel inconvenient, resisted, or even frustrating in the moment are often the exact places where chil...

A Crisis in Formation: How AI Is Shaping Teenagers and Their Spiritual Lives

Jesus Christ did not disciple his followers through detached prompts, but through embodied presence, sacrificial love, correction, suffering, touch, communion, and covenant relatio...

Can You Name One Saying of Jesus? What Barna Reveals

Bible reading is rising in America, but knowing Scripture and being formed by it are not necessarily the same thing. Recent Barna conversations raise an important question for Chri...

Are You a Follower or Just an Admirer of Jesus?

Jesus’ way is not the easy way. As Jesus states clearly in Luke 9:23, “Anyone who wishes to follow me must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.” This is certainly...

We All Need Counseling. We Don’t Always Need Counseling.

Counseling is an essential form of discipleship, but biblical discipleship should promote healthy independence and maturity, not dependence upon the counselor or the counseling pro...

When Reading Declines, Discipleship Suffers

By Lauren Ducommun, TGC. The results of the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress report card were sobering. This is an assessment performed every two years on a represe...

After DEI? A Theological Exploration

by Robert P George and Brandon Van Dyck, Public Discourse (Image: Pixaby) On the Christian account, human relations are not only or even primarily an arena of conflict and oppressi...

Why and How to Serve Those with Disabilities in Your Ministries

Paul reminds us that our friends living with disability are indispensable to the body of Christ. A church without disabilities, then, becomes an incomplete church.  The post Why an...

Going first

First be reconciled to your brother or sister (Matthew 5:24b). The post Going first appeared first on Lutheran Church of Australia.

Toward one another

If your brother or sister sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone (Matthew 18:15a). The post Toward one another appeared first on Lutheran Church...

What Does “Gospel Living” Look Like?

Paul’s vision of the Christian life is not one of loving only other believers and withdrawing from the world. It has profound implications for how we relate to people and entities...

The Fading of Face-to-Face Fellowship

Welcome to another Thursday UNFILTERED blog post, the only blog that thinks the disciples falling asleep in Gethsemane proves small groups had attendance issues from the beginning....