Waypoints on the Discipleship Journey: Authentic Relationships within Community
Lots of studies have linked social media with anxiety and depression. It makes sense. Reading about and checking out the pictures of the perfect lives, stellar jobs, and well-mannered, scripture memorizing, honor roll children can make a regular life, regular job, and regular family seem unfortunate. In many ways, the image portrayed on Instagram reflects […]
Waypoints on the Discipleship Journey: Evangelism
If you’re anything like me, witnessing comes super-easily. It seems I can winsomely turn every conversation I have back to the foundations of the gospel, have people laughing, nodding their head in agreement, crying, and saying, “Amen!” within just a few minutes. I quote a verse, and people cry out, “Please, more truth, Ben!” I […]
OBEDIENT: Developing a Missional Lifestyle
Students live very busy lives. How do you fit the commands of Jesus to “make disciples”, “love the Lord your God will all your heart, soul, mind and strength” and “love your neighbor as yourself” into classes, work, and extracurricular activities. The key is what Jesus says in Matthew 28:19, “As you are going…” Living […]
Waypoints on the Discipleship Journey: Prayer
7 Tips for Connecting Students to God through Prayer 1. Help students experience intimacy with their heavenly Father. Students who have had a poor or painful experience with an earthly father often have great difficulty wanting to get close to their heavenly Father. This is huge challenge due to the disintegration of family life […]
Waypoints on the Discipleship Journey: Scripture
No one likes the word study. But eat? Everyone enjoys it! That’s how we take God’s Word in. We digest it. The healthiest Christians, happiest too, are those who sit down to a daily meal of Bible. They’ve figured it out. Spiritual energy, a cheerful spirit, a reprogrammed mind come when we feed on the […]