Available as paperback book or Kindle E-book: 'Running The Race To Win’ is a book about developing a deeper understanding of discipleship and developing a deeper relationship with Christ. It does not matter if you are a businessperson, schoolteacher, nurse, athlete, computer technician, student etc. you are called to be a disciple and to make disciples. The contemporary church has many times neglected the original command laid down by Christ Himself and for this reason discipleship seems to be a radical message. However, for the church to fulfill its mission we must once again return to this radical call. The word radical comes from the Latin word radix meaning the root of things. Radical discipleship is simply a call to return to biblical foundations. Biblical foundations are at the root of discipleship since a disciple is one who has been instructed ...
This workbook contains the tools you need to make disciples…it is a biblical pattern you can use for establishing others in Christ and His ministry. There are three different sections in this workbook, which build upon each other much in the same way a house is built one section at a time. This material takes the believer from understanding the foundations of our Christian faith to each member of the church entering their place of service and using their God given gifts. There are 52 lessons laid out in an outline form so you can teach directly from the workbook or study on your own as a daily devotional.
On the night before Jesus finished His race at the cross, He ate the last Passover meal with His disciples in the upper room. The symbolic nature of this last meal with His disciples demonstrates the significant change His death and resurrection was about to bring in how man and God would relate [...]
In Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth he had to bring them back to being singly focused on the cross. They had begun to listen to several factious voices, which began leading certain groups of them down different paths. Paul instructed the Corinthians to become focused around one simple message, which [...]
As we are entering into the season of the year when we celebrate Christ’s death, burial and resurrection I want to do a few post centering in on this theme. It is important that we have a solid point of reference so that we can stay on track during these turbulent times. Hebrews [...]
Synergy is defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. It really does define the true power of fellowship, which is the power of partnering. The focus of synergy is God’s miraculous power at work. Jesus was God, but He could not fulfill His mission [...]
It is credited that Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” What do you think when I mention the names Enron, Ernie Madoff or [...]
It is an oxymoron that we actually advance in the kingdom by serving. I have to be honest that I have always struggled in this area because of the seeming contradictions I have found in scripture. We are supposed to make of ourselves of no reputation while at the same time we are [...]
It’s no secret that other people influence our lives. This is a widely understood fact of life. Sciences have been created to study how people affect one another. Sociology and psychology are studies of human interaction. Advertising, marketing, and economics have a firm foundation in understanding influences that we exert on one another [...]
I am going to start this post off with a statement that I want you to internalize. Jesus can use anyone or anything, but it is only those who wholeheartedly yield themselves to Him in covenant relationship that He can manifest Himself through. We are called to a higher purpose than to just [...]
Paul used a principle that I call our “measure of rule.” We don’t live in boxes, but we are limited to our measure of rule or boundaries. In the physical world a boundary is a property line. It defines where you end and someone else begins, or where you end and something else [...]
If you want to accomplish something of value, you have to be willing to go beyond where you have gone before. The world is full of people who have settled for the comfortable status quo of existence instead of pursuing their purpose. If you are willing to press on to something new, it [...]
