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1. What the Hundredfold Return Really Means—You May Be Surprised

... ay from the Messiah sorrowfully because He'd asked him to give his excess wealth away to the needy. It wasn't a heaven-to-earth business proposition; it was a call to radical discipleship. We should never ...

Created on 03 May 2022

2. Lee Grady Challenges the Church to Recover the Lost Art of Making Disciples

...  recapture the original and ancient vision of Christ and really get in the thick of people's lives and make evangelism and discipleship the priority again. This is where we will begin to see eternal fru ...

Created on 30 April 2022

3. A New Tool to Help You Disciple Others

During the worst of the pandemic in 2020, Lee Grady led an Indian man named Mahipal to faith in Jesus and began discipling him. A few months later, the man's Indian boss, Venkat, also decided to follow ...

Created on 20 April 2022

4. God Wants You to Multiply

...  Zoom. I love watching people grow spiritually. Discipleship is not just a hobby—it's my passion. But something dramatic happened a few years ago that proved to me how serious God is about spiritual multipl ...

Created on 20 April 2022

5. A Kingdom Necessity You Can't Purchase or Develop Overnight

... author overnight. But Christian discipleship requires discipline, intentionality and time ... not exactly values topping the charts these days. In a recent conversation, Rabbi Abraham Cooper and I reflected ...

Created on 10 March 2022

6. Why You Should Pray for God to Send a 'Paul' Your Way

... te worship gatherings can be, they are no substitute for one-on-one spiritual mentoring and discipleship. So who's your Paul? Who's the person you can count on to offer you encouragement and correction w ...

Created on 10 March 2022

7. Lee Grady: The Only Way to Effectively Lead People to Christ

God's Word is the heart of discipleship. If we want to follow God faithfully, we must learn His Word. We must be faithful students. We should cherish the Word, submit to it, honor it, and fearfully respec ...

Created on 21 February 2022

8. Lee Grady: How I Found Real, Book of Acts Community in Puerto Rico

... ly whisked out of the sanctuary to make room for the next group. Many of these people never process with anyone else what they learned, never join a small group, and never receive any form of one-on-on ...

Created on 10 February 2022

9. The Most Vital Key to Reaching the Next Generation

... ost popular book, and that's understandable because the topic of discipleship has always had a tendency to drive people away instead of attracting big audiences (see John 6:65-66). I started investing my ...

Created on 01 February 2022

10. Discipling Relationships

... t walking in the footsteps of the master, steadily becoming more and more like him. We call the process discipleship. What, then, is the more popularly used term mentorship? Mentorship is not, I propose,  ...

Created on 27 December 2021

11. Jesus Began With a Few

...  They were his team. He had every intention of including them in His quest. These beautiful scenes show us the essence of biblical discipleship. Jesus came to save the world, and He invites us to join Him i ...

Created on 22 December 2021

12. True Disciples Know His Voice and Follow

The first thing Jesus said to the first ones He called to follow Him was, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men" (Matt. 4:19b). This was about more than just relating to them in their current ...

Created on 21 December 2021

13. Christians: Citizens and Disciples

... h others to do the same. That can only be done through discipleship, and that is the reason I launched Charis Bible College (CBC) in 1994. Students arrive at CBC like fresh recruits to boot camp. Two years l ...

Created on 23 November 2021

14. Discipleship Versus Evangelism ...

... aking disciples to getting people born again, leaving discipleship for the "mature." Did you know that Jesus never preached on being "born again"? In the third chapter of John, He talked to Nicodemus a ...

Created on 16 November 2021

15. The Life of The Bride Of Christ

The Savior and King of the Universe longs to know you intimately and through that relationship with Him, He will use you to impact the world for His glory. What a heartbreaking truth that many will operate ...

Created on 11 November 2021

16. Comfort is the Cost of Covenant

While sitting at my desk, gathering my thoughts in preparation to write this month's Empowering Thought e-letter to all my ministry partners, the spirit of God spoke these words, "Comfort is the cost of ...

Created on 11 November 2021

17. As I Have Loved You

Imagine the night before Jesus' crucifixion. He has communion with His disciples and washes their feet. He reveals that Judas is the one who will betray Him. He tells the disciples that He is leaving and ...

Created on 04 November 2021

18. The Church: Harnessing the Vision and Mission

What is your vision (aim) and mission (way to achieve this) for your church? Would this be, "To be a large, growing and happy community of believers, where everyone feels loved and secure in the knowledge ...

Created on 27 October 2021

19. What Revival is NOT!

... o visit for a little while. Heaven's goal is to make out of us "disciple-makers." And that, my friends, takes more than a visitation of God but rather having a habitation for God! Revival without disciple ...

Created on 25 October 2021

20. The Salt Covenant Part 1

In our two previous podcasts, we explained the ancient "Threshold Covenant." This was one of the most important covenants in Bible times. Another ancient, important covenant was the "Salt Covenant." In ...

Created on 05 October 2021