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Intentional Discipleship: A Warning
[Click here for the video.] We’re in the home stretch of The Foundations Series. We’ve certainly covered a lot of ground in the past 9 weeks, and it is my prayer that it has been helpful and has given...
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Intentional Discipleship: Building Endurance (3 Steps of Maturity)
(Click here for the video) Praise for AWANA Have you heard of AWANA? Essentially, AWANA is a biblical, discipleship program for kids aged 2-18. Each week they play games, memorize scripture, hear the...
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Intentional Discipleship: Preparing Our Heart with Psalm 51
(For a video of this sermon click here.) My intention when I started writing this sermon was to give some very practical steps on how to do the Four Core Christian Disciplines (Prayer, Bible Study,...
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Why to Study the Bible – The Four Core Christian Disciplines
We’re studying the Four Core Christian Disciplines right now. Can you remember what they are? Prayer, Bible Study, Church Attendance and Serving Others. Last week we talked about “How to Pray” which...
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Every Blogger Needs A Plan
Even the most adventurous, creative, spur-of-the-moment, will-o-the-wisp, person needs a plan. They may formulate their plans quickly, and dispense with them even more quickly, but they do have...
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Discipleship Fundamentals
I’ve always loved watching and playing sports. And anyone who does knows that there is one word phrase that pervades all sportsdom — “We’ve got to get back to the fundamentals.” If our team is on a...
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The Complexity of Christianity
(Photo credit: Phil Dowsing Creative) I was invited for an “Ask The Pastor” night last week and brought along this handout I’d been working on. I sat in front of the white board and asked myself “If I...
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Two Sheets of Paper that have Captivated my Life
I have a deep and abiding passion for intentional discipleship and designing a path to take people from “unsaved” to “church elder” has been my preoccupation for a few years now. The intensity of this...
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Children’s Message: Jesus Loves Kids
Every now and again I get a chance to speak to a group of AWANA children or at a local Christian school. It’s such a blessing to be able to talk to them about Jesus. What I often do is take a sermon...
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Ground Yourself (The Parable of the Two Builders)
https://artofthechristianninja.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2-ground-yourself.mp3 I’ve started a, sort of, impromptu series that I’m unofficially calling “Kick Off the New Year Right” or “How to...
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How Important are Bible Schools, Seminaries and Other Forms of Formal...
The 23rd episode of “Carnivore Theology”. Formal Theological Education We live in the world where Google is a verb, student loans are reaching epic proportions and Ted Talks, how-to videos and...
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Every Blogger Needs A Plan
Even the most adventurous, creative, spur-of-the-moment, will-o-the-wisp, person needs a plan. They may formulate their plans quickly, and dispense with them even more quickly, but they do have...
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What Does it Mean to “Deny Ourselves” and “Take Up Our Cross”? (Mark 8:34-9:1)
https://artofthechristianninja.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/34-mark-8-24-9-1-take-up-your-cross.mp3 The Bali Nine This week in Indonesia, a group of eight convicted drug traffickers who were caught,...
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Support Art of the Christian Ninja’s Kickstarter!
https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/2095378/video-587866-h264_high.mp4 If you’ve been following the blog/podcasts for any time now, then you know about my passion for good, inspiring,...
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How Can Christians be “IN” the World but Not “OF” it? (Burning Questions...
Don’t forget to take a look at the Kickstarter for my new book! Click here to check it out! https://artofthechristianninja.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/2-burning-questions-in-but-not-of.mp3 We’re...
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What is “A Good Church”? (Burning Questions Series)
https://artofthechristianninja.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/5-burning-questions-what-is-a-good-church.mp3 A while back, before it was interrupted by Thanksgiving, Children’s and Friendship Sunday, we...
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What is a “Good Church”? (Carnivore Theology: Ep 52)
Every Christian wants to attend a “good church”, but we all seem to have different ideas of what a “good church” looks like. The guys take on this question and give a biblical perspective. Podcast...
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What is “A Good Church”? Part 2 (Burning Questions Series)
https://artofthechristianninja.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/6-burning-questions-what-is-a-good-church-2.mp3 Last week I spoke what amounted to an extended introduction about answering the question,...
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All About Baptism – What is it and Who’s it for? (Carnivore Theology Ep. 69)
Baptism is important, but there is a lot of confusion about it. What is it? Who is it for? Why are there different types? Where did it come from? What age should one be? Podcast Audio:...
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Called & Cleaned Part 3: A Biblical Case for Pursuing a Godly Life
https://artofthechristianninja.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/6-called-and-cleaned-3.mp3 Right now, and over the past few weeks, we’ve been working through an extended introduction to the first few verse...
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