The Missing Link in Disciplemaking
How a Discipleship Toolkit Moves People from Information to Transformation
Churches want to get better at making disciples. But what if we're relying on the message of Jesus more than the method of Jesus?
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Make Content That Makes Disciples
What I Love about Cory Hartman's Book "From 'Show Up' to 'Grow Up'"
A new resource shows you how to produce outbound content that works with disciple-making and real church growth instead of working against them.
Why Outrage Must Not Become the Next Rage
…and Why Calling Must Be
It's easy to get outraged about what's wrong with the world, but it's hard to change it. Conviction about your personal calling makes the difference.
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Recovering the Lost Question of Vision
From “What’s Next?” to “Who’s Next?”
Every visionary leader is faced with the tension between delivery and development, progress and process, moving people and making people. Here's a free resource to navigate it.
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The Official 100 Life Dreams List Form
There is Still Time to Complete Your 100 Life Dreams List
90 days ago,I issued a challenge to create a list of 100 life dreams. I wanted to inspire with my own dream of co-locating in Colorado for a season (I have lived in Houston for over 20 years) in order [...]
Go, Be, and Do in Your Real Life
What is your system for mobilizing people in their personal calling?
Talking about “being,” “doing,” and “going” is great. But having an actionable, gospel-centered system to do it in your life makes the difference.
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How to Measure Real Church Growth
What are your ministry outputs?
When church leaders think about growth, they default to measuring people's participation, not their production.
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Neil Tomba's Cross-Country Life Dream
3000 miles, 30 days, 100s of spiritual conversations
A life dream 18 years in the making: Neil Tomba is taking a team on a coast-to-coast bike trip to have spiritual conversations with people. And he's filming it.
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Cory's, Kelly's, and John's 10-10 Lists #LifeDesignWithMe
More Examples to Stoke Your Imagination!
Cory Hartman has become a good friend this past year as he began to work with me as a collaborative writer. Our big project was to complete the forthcoming book, Younique: Designing the Life God Dreamed for You. (Read the Much thanks to Cory, Kelly and John for granting permission to publish their lists. As you know, these are very personal. Many of you have sent in your lists or are mentioning that you are following along with this initiative. [...]
Advance Your Life Dreams with 20 "Boxes of Possibility"
If you are following along with the #LifeDesignWithMe adventure over a 90-day period, this is a BIG POST. I want to show you the single greatest step toward accelerating your 100 Dreams List. If you are just jumping in now, be How do you accelerate work on your 100 Dreams List? I want you to creatively think of your four storylines right now. How would you name the big narratives in your life? Why is this an important step? Because its going Getting Started with the Life Dreams List Worksheet Now that you are armed with the knowledge of storylines and the five kinds of aspirations, you are ready to jump into the worksheet. You are not going to believe how this [...]
The Simple Power of a 90-Day Goal
Apply the great secret of how to focus in life
My life's greatest secret: I don't work hard, I work focused. (But don't tell anyone.) By introducing the simple power of a 90-day goal I am doing double duty with two current series. First, we are continuing to review the7 Now back to the excerpt from my forthcoming book: Younique, Designing the Life God Dreamed for You. There is something about a 90-day period—approximately one quarter of a year—that is entwined deeply with the operating system of human beings. Ninety days This crucial principle is missing in so many life-planning approaches, but businesses are beginning to figure it out. The fourth quarter of the year is almost always a company’s most productive, sometimes more than the previous three put together. That’s Top Ten Benefits of Focusing on One Goal Every 90 Days One 90-day goal makes it easy to focus attention daily without having to adopt a new system or tool or app. One 90-day goal powers your prayer life in [...]
My 30-Minute 10-10 List to Inspire Your Own
My 10-10 List Four days ago, I kicked off the #LifeDesignWithMe 90-day adventure. The goal is to lift your life aspirations to the point that you can name literally 100 Life Dreams. That’s right—I know it sounds crazy. But I will [...]
