February 2012
15 posts
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Hearing the Beat of Your Community →
Adapted from Community: Taking Your Small Groups Off Life Support, this post deals with knowing your neighborhood in an effort to reach the people around you for Christ.
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Christ-like Discipling →
A brief excerpt from John Piper’s A Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named, posted at the hiding place blog.
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“In particular, what does “teaching them” in the Great Commission refer to?...”
– Trevin Wax
writing at his blog, “Kingdom People”
Read the full article here.
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Let Me Tell You A Story (Part 5)
Part 5? Yes! The other four parts are here.
Hopefully you want to tell your story … not because you think you are so interesting, but because your story is about Jesus and what he has done for you.
So you get your chance … you are sitting at the coffee house. Your friend is sitting across from you. You’ve asked some good questions, like “Did you grow up around...
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“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the...”
– Paul
writing to the Church at Ephesus in Ephesians 4:1-3
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Connecting in A Facebook World →
You are reading a blog … maybe you got here from Twitter … you are connected. In this article adapted from How to Be a Best Friend Forever: Making and Keeping Lifetime Relationships by Dr. John Townsend, the importance of real face to face connections in a social media world is highlighted. Great topic for a talk with the person you are discipling.
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“—Spiritual formation is slow work. Our culture demands results now.
—Becoming...”
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Excerpted from a great post by Andy Blanks. Read the whole post at Andy’s Blog.
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Leading In Evangelism →
“We don’t have to do evangelism. We get to!”
So writes Ross Appleton in this post from Gospel Centered Discipleship
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A Fishing Lesson
A conversation I had this summer with my brother-in-law:
Me: “How was fishing this morning?”
Brother-in-law: “Um, it was fun in a different way. It was a lot of work.”
Me: “What do you mean?”
Brother in law:
“Well, I never got to fish. I took a friend and his kids out fishing.
They’d never been fishing before so I spent the whole time baiting their hooks, netting their fish they caught,...
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“Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and...”
– -Jesus in Mark 5:19
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Discipleship and Hospitality →
I really enjoyed Tim Chester’s book A Meal With Jesus. This excerpt, posted at my new favorite blog, Gospel Centered Discipleship, discusses how meals are the perfect opportunity for gospel conversations.
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Your Neighborhood →
A few years ago I was captivated by a simple, clear, and compelling vision: The presence of Christ in every neighborhood. This post from theResurgence.com is adapted from Brad House’s book Community: Taking Your Small Groups off Life Support.
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Let Me Tell You A Story (Part 4)
Try these opening lines on for size:
When I was in high school I was always worried about what people thought of me.
I was in an abusive relationship, but I was so lonely that I was afraid to leave.
My family life was a mess, but I wanted people to think that we had our act together, so I always pretended everything was OK.
I used to look for happiness in the wrong places… alcohol,...
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Discipleship Includes Speaking Truth In Love →
In this post at TheResurgence.com Dr. Bob Kelleman introduces an important part of the discipleship mix: speaking the truth in love.
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How Not to Read Your Bible →
In this post from Erik Swenson, writing at relevantmagazine.com, the writer warns us about the dangers of reading the scripture for the wrong reasons.
January 2012
26 posts
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“You who are older should be looking out for younger people and saying in effect,...”
– D.A. Carson
via Justin Taylor
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Let Me Tell You A Story (part 3)
Way back in 2011 (remember 2011? That was a simpler time.) we began a series of posts on the concept of STORY. From the beginning, people have loved stories. Oral traditions gave way to literature which evolved into all kinds of media dedicated to the simple idea of telling a story.
And you have a story. And most of you just thought to yourself “My story is boring.” Well, if you...
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“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just,...”
– Paul in Philippians 4:8
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A Suburban Faith →
Yesterday we looked at 7 tips for talking to your neighbors about Jesus from theResurgence.com. Today RelevantMagazine.com gives us 10 ways to engage the world for Christ wherever we find ourselves.
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R3 Discipleship Workshop
It has been one year since our R3 Discipleship conference. This Sunday, January 29, we will gather for worship, interaction, and encouragement to follow through on our commitment to reproducing disciples of Jesus.
This workshop will feature two identical sessions at 9:30 and 11AM in the Family Center Auditorium at Fellowship Bible Church of NWA [same location as the conference last year] and...
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7 Tips for Talking to Your Neighbors About Jesus →
The first R of R3 is REACH. If we want to reach our neighbors for Christ we have to be prepared to build a relationship with them, and we have to be ready to talk about Jesus.
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Andy's Blog: Orthodontics And Disciple-making →
andyblanks:
Andy Blanks of youthministry360 writes on his blog about how orthodontics and discipleship have more in common than you might think.
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“And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will...”
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Jesus in Luke 18:7-8
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Religion vs. the Gospel →
You have probably seen the spoken word poem about religion vs. the gospel that has gone viral. At the time of this writing it has over 15 million hits on YouTube. It has sparked some controversy, which is not too surprising considering that it doesn’t pull any punches. In this post at theResurgence.com Tim Keller outlines the key differences between RELIGION and THE GOSPEL.
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With Them Discipleship →
Mike Breen continues his thoughts on integrating discipleship into your everyday life in this excellent blog post.
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“The only conversions that count in the kingdom are those confirmed by a life of...”
– soma.life: CONVERSIONS THAT COUNT
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Everyday Moments
“Please Mom and Dad, share some more of your wisdom with us!”
After the laughter died down, my friend went on to say that her oldest son was thirty and she was still waiting to hear one of her children say that to her and her husband. She was teaching on the topic of healthy relationships in the context of family. And she was right. Kids don’t normally go to their parents...
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“He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Simon Peter replied, “You are...”
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Jesus in Matthew 16:15-18
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What's Your Plan?
“More time in the Word.”
That’s the number one thing guys I meet with say they need more of. More consistency. More motivation. More … something … that will help them get in the Bible. What they really need is a plan.
So you are two weeks into 2012 and you are still planning on getting going on that Bible reading plan, right?
Here are some online tools that...
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“The best proof you can ever have of God’s being mighty to save, dear hearers, is...”
– Charles Spurgeon (via thejourneyofb)
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When God is Silent →
What do you do when you aren’t hearing from God? Jon Acuff, writing at his Stuff Christians Like blog, has some helpful insight.
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Seeing Behind the Curtain →
In this brief post from David Walker’s blog he asks some penetrating questions at the heart of discipleship.
“If you can’t reproduce disciples, you’ll never reproduce leaders. If you can’t...”
– Neil Cole
Organic Leadership, p. 250 (via somalife)
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Raising Spiritual Children
As I look back on my life as a parent, raising four “fearfully and wonderfully made” children, I have to remember the rough start that I had. For some reason I wanted to put all of them in a box, with the same expectations that if I guided them, disciplined them, and encouraged them all alike, I would get the same results: mature, capable, Christ-like, productive adults.
Through many mistakes...
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“And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”...”
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Mark 1:17-18
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2011 in Review
2011 was a banner year for r3ally.org, our first full calendar year of existence. We moved form 3 posts a week to 5, and continued to bring some of the best original content on discipleship to the web.
In January we hosted our first ever R3 Discipleship Conference. The Conference audio has been one of our most popular links an can be found here.
Our most popular series this year in terms of...
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The Church as a Community of Change →
Tim Chester, writing at the exciting new site called Gospel Centered Discipleship, says that life change is something God does in Community.
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WatchA world changing movement is build on DISCIPLES, not CONSUMERS.
Posted via http://www.sentness.com/
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"Knowing God" Available for FREE! →
J.I. Packer’s classic book, Knowing God, is available for FREE right now as an audiobook on ChristianAudio.com. Named one of the 50 most influential books of the 20th Century by Christianity Today, Knowing God has sold over a million copies.
With their “gift this” link you can even send this audiobook to someone else. Perhaps you and the person you are discipling could...
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Living on God's Word in 2012 →
How will you get more Bible in your life in 2012? John Piper has a few suggestions in this post from DesiringGod.org
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December 2011
27 posts
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“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed...”
– Paul, writing to the Corinthian church
2 Corinthians 5:17-19
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All Ministry is Local →
Wish you were going to Kenya to serve in an orphanage? Andrew Byers suggests that maybe right where you are is where God wants you to do ministry. Sounds like discipleship to us.
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Spiritual Success in Four Easy Steps! →
With everyone making New Year’s resolutions we need to be reminded of what Ephesians 1 says about who we are in Christ. If you are meeting with your man or woman this week and talking about the New Year, this article from Matt Johnson at theResurgence.com would be a great piece to discuss.
Top Ten Most Read from The Gospel Coalition →
It’s that time of year … time for the “year end reviews” and “best of” lists. For ten articles you might want to read (and re-read) check out this list from Collin Hansen at The Gospel Coalition.
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Christmas Everywhere
Phillips Brooks is best known as the lyricist of “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
Here’s another Christmas poem he wrote entitled “Christmas Everywhere.”
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine, Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine, Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white, Christmas where cornfields...
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