Developing a Habit for Life
How to create your own Habit For Life, often known as a Rhythm of Life. With printable PDF template.
Can you sneeze it?
How easy have we made it to share our faith? When trying to explain faith, many of our churches over-explain or over-confuse something that is really meant to be so simple. For example, if you asked most church attendees what it means to be a disciple they would struggle to give an answer in one sentence. Because a simple answer can’t be given, the danger is that nothing is said that is useful at all.
Women and Discipleship - Discipling Young Women
The importance of discipleship of young women and the need to help them navigate how to live as a Christian woman in an increasingly secular society.
LENT WEBINAR / DISCIPLESHIP COACHING
Imagine having your own Discipleship Coach!
How to run the race in a pandemic.
“Run in such a way as to get the prize”. 1 Corinthians 9:24
5 ways to alleviate apathy in your faith.
It’s too easy to settle into a monotonous routine that lacks any passion or joy. So, what can we do to elevate apathy in our faith?
Apprentice To Jesus: 40 days of walking in the way
How to be discipled in lockdown.
Would the church thrive in the absence of leadership or would they ‘drift off’?
If Jesus was Jewish, then why aren't we?
If Jesus was Jewish, then why aren't we?
THE PODCAST
MAKING DISCIPLES THE PODCAST IS HERE. A weekly 25min podcast to help in your spiritual formation.
A discipleship podcast for beginners, doubters, confused and long term established Christians. In this podcast, we talk about everything related to growing in faith but in a really simple way. We are honest with our struggles, learn from some wise people and hit some brick walls… a little bit like the original disciples.
THE PODCAST
MAKING DISCIPLES THE PODCAST IS HERE. A weekly 25min podcast to help in your spiritual formation.
A discipleship podcast for beginners, doubters, confused and long term established Christians. In this podcast, we talk about everything related to growing in faith but in a really simple way. We are honest with our struggles, learn from some wise people and hit some brick walls… a little bit like the original disciples.
Should Young People Be Discipled?
Interview with Kyle McKinnon Director of Reign Ministeries
PREPARING YOUR KIDS FOR A HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Christmas is such a wonderful time of year that so easily gets swamped with gift-giving and gift-receiving. If we aren’t careful our children grow up with a consumer approach to a season all about the simple Christ child. As society aims to sell more stuff and make Christmas as commercially successful as possible we need to simplify and point to the story of Christmas.
THE PODCAST
MAKING DISCIPLES THE PODCAST IS HERE. A weekly 25min podcast to help in your spiritual formation.
A discipleship podcast for beginners, doubters, confused and long term established Christians. In this podcast we talk about everything related to growing in faith but in a really simple way. We are honest with our struggles, learn from some wise people and hit some brick walls… a little bit like the original disciples. Cris Rogers is a church leader in East London and has been described as a Urban Practical Theologian. wearemakingdisciples.com
THE FATHERS LOVE LETTER
The Bible is this beautiful love letter or sonnet from God to humanity where he whispers on every page “I love you”. In Malachi 1:1-5 it reads, “I have loved you,” says the LORD. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?”
Making Disciples Interview with Andy Frost
How to raise faith in the family.
Andy Frost heads up Share Jesus International. Working with Care for the family and Katherine Hill, Andy has been apart of creating Raising Faith. In this conversation, we talk about kids and how to disciple your family. We talk about the five helpful hits to disciple your children. 1. Praying with your kids 2. Reading the Bible with them and them seeing you read 3. Being intentional in asking questions about faith 4. Committing to a church family and playing your part 5. Looking to point faith outwards towards others. wearemakingdisciples.com
Lent in a Bag
Pilgrims journeying together…. Throughout the forty days of Lent, we remember the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. Each week, we will be taking time to reflect upon what might sustain us when we find ourselves in a “ wilderness.” Perhaps not literally, but in terms of facing empty, bleak or difficult times in our own lives. Perhaps something that happens at work, school or at home and we know that somehow we will have to get through it. We will have to “ walk through the wilderness”. “ Lent in a Bag” helps us to consider what we need to journey through that wilderness as pilgrims together.
3 creative ways to disciple kids this Christmas.
Christmas is a great season for taking up the opportunity to disciple the kids in your life. Here are 3 creative ways to disciple your kids this Christmas.
Consumerism:
The enemy of Christian discipleship and community
What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?
Discipleship isn’t about learning more, but following and copying Jesus in the everyday. We aren’t historians we are partners in Jesus’ kingdom movement.
In this series on discipleship, Loretta chats to Rev Cris Rogers about making disciples and together unpack the most frequently asked questions on the subject.
How can we get more from the Bible
Discipleship is about learning about the one we follow and the place we do that is in the Bible. Here we ask questions around how to get more from the bible? Cris gives us a spiritual practice to use every day to help with this.
Interview with Mike Gore
WHAT IS TRUE DISCIPLESHIP AND WHY IS PERSECUTION IMPORTANT FOR US.
CHRIST-CENTRED DISCIPLESHIP
MAKING DISCIPLES INTERVIEW WITH ALAN HIRSCH
APPRENTICESHIP AND DISCIPLESHIP
Pete Baker, the Pais England National Director, talks with Cris about how to put into practice ancient discipleship practices with young people.
Apprenticeship as Discipleship
Making Disciples interview with John Mark Comer
Cris Rogers interviews John Mark Comer, Author of "God has a name" and pastor of Bridgetown Church Portland on the topic of apprenticeship as discipleship.
FOUR THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID
Weird and wonderful phantom quotes or ideas that people either say or live by without realising they are just not true and really not helpful...
I wonder how often we misquote Jesus without even realising it. Could it be that we think we know what Jesus said but for some reason we have the wrong end of the stick. Someone once said to me, ‘as Jesus said spare the rod, spoil the child’. Wow! Taken aback I made sure they understood that Jesus never said that. I also had to make it clear to another person that Jesus never said, God helps those who help themselves. I quickly made them aware that God helps those who can’t help themselves.
How to share our faith with others
Taking time to think about sharing your story of meeting Jesus...
When it comes to sharing our faith, where do we start? Sin? Jesus? Resurrection? Do we go with something more palatable and vague? What about love, everyone wants a bit of love don't they? The truth is that there are some words that unlock conversation and some words that close conversation down. A good example is that of sin. Sin has been used for so long to bash people towards Jesus that the whole concept has become familiarised and people roll their eyes and shrug their shoulders and give us a ‘yeh yeh, tell me something I don't know’ look.
Help, I have a young family...
I am tired, short of time and struggling to grow in my faith.
I love the verse from Matthew 22:37 “Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind… 'Love your neighbour as yourself.” Or as the disciple-shape tool showed us. Love God with your head, heart and hands. That is the teaching, there's nothing new there. The reality is, there does come a time when this is significantly hard. What do you do when you have a baby, and a toddler, and another on the way. What does it mean then to love God with your head, heart and hands? How do we apply this teaching in this season of life?
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Going back to the old ways of making disciples - apprenticeship is discipleship, discipleship is about apprenticeship.
Our higher education model is having a detrimental effect upon how we do discipleship. So much of how the church does discipleship is modelled on a failing school system. I don’t say that to offend any teachers, but I am trying to shake up the church.
Making Disciples interview with Dr Paula Gooder
We talk with the eminent theologian Dr Paula Gooder about learning to 'knock about with Jesus'
Dr Paula Gooder speaks about learning to 'knock about with Jesus' and what it means to be a life long learner of Rabbi Jesus.
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Mission isn't an afterthought
It is central to your discipleship
Why is it so easy for Churches to form small groups but so difficult to get volunteers for outreach days?
Singleness Part 1
What The Bible Actually Says About Singleness
In this two-part article, we will explore two important biblical teachings surrounding singleness.
Singleness Part 2
What The Bible Actually Says About Singleness
In the second of this two-part article, we will continue to explore the biblical teachings surrounding singleness.
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Browsing the Library
The Bible is a funny old book, and let’s be honest sometimes not the easiest book to read...
How to talk about your faith well
5 tips for talking about Jesus
There are few things that I get asked about more by my fellow Christians than ‘how do I talk about my faith?’
Catalysis
How did the early church make disciples? What can a church implement to activate discipleship in its churches.
Reading in three dimensions
How to get the most out of your bible reading
Reading the bible is not easy. How many of us have started out with the intention of reading the whole bible in a year only to find ourselves defeated the tenth time we read about ‘the long lobe of the liver’ in Leviticus!
Who drives the verbs?
How to read the bible for personal transformation
What are you looking out for when you read the bible?
Shaping our minds so our hands can be activated
Making Disciples interview with Dr Stephen Backhouse
Stephen shares with us how our minds needs shaping so that our hands can be activated and live out what we are wrestling with. We also talk about the place of Theology in the local church and Tent Theology.
Who shapes your view of the world?
The Bible? Other Christians? The spirit? All of them?
We can’t help it but we all read the world through western eyes and we certainly do the same with the Bible. With everything we watch, read or hear we make a judgment upon it from our way of seeing the world. We all have deeply held beliefs, ingrained patterns of interpreting the world around us. Each of these firmly held beliefs cast a shadow over the way we read the Bible.
Making Disciples Interview with Miriam Swaffield
[Part 2] Cris continues speaking to Miriam about how to share our faith whilst making it natural and normal...
Understanding what we can bring to the table once we own our style for sharing our faith.