Do You Want More Than Dry Prayer Times?
Our prayer times can often feel dry when what is offered in the scriptures is a prayer life that is dynamic and accessible at any time or occasion.
How to share Jesus with your neighbours.
Have you ever wondered how to share your faith with your neighbours without coming across as pushy or awkward? Well, fear not because we are here to share some tips on how to talk about Jesus in a natural and friendly way.
Developing a Habit for Life
How to create your own Habit For Life, often known as a Rhythm of Life. With printable PDF template.
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.
Be discipled back to church.
Sadly for many of us, we have become discipled out of gathered church and discipled further into consumer church. How do we get back into the swing of things?
Risk taking as a woman
How to take risks as a woman and how men need to make a way for women to step up.
LENT WEBINAR / DISCIPLESHIP COACHING
Imagine having your own Discipleship Coach!
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’?
5 reasons why we love our neighbour and serve
Activating out faith and living it out can be hard and sometimes we need help. This blog post helps us explore why getting our hands dirty is so important.
Activating out faith and living it out can be hard and sometimes we need help. This blog post helps us explore why getting our hands dirty is so important.
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.
THE BREATHE PRAYER
How to use your breathing as prayer.
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
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
Big and small disciples together
Thoughts on Children’s Discipleship
So how do we disciple children? Is the classroom the best way to help them fall in love with Jesus? Can we be doing more to share Jesus in the day to day as fellow disciples and as parents?
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.
Interview with Mike Gore
WHAT IS TRUE DISCIPLESHIP AND WHY IS PERSECUTION IMPORTANT FOR US.
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.
DISCIPLESHIP IS FOR ALL AND NOT THE FEW
For many with disabilities, seeing where they fit into the big story of the Bible is hard, especially when they can barely see where they fit into the church.
There is a group of people for whom discipleship is difficult to access, or there is nothing for them to access in the first place.
Surrendering all to Jesus
Making Disciples Interview with Danielle Strickland.
Cris Rogers interviews Danielle Strickland on what 'real' discipleship is and the importance of surrendering all to Jesus.
HOW TO STOP MOVING
Taking time to be present to Gods presence
Modern life is busy, some of it busy for work, other times busy for family and sometimes a little busy for us and maybe a little for Jesus. Busyness for some of us makes us feel wanted, needed or appreciated. We think that if we are busy we must be proving our existence. But our identity isn't found in how busy we are.
WE GET TO SHAPE WHERE WE LIVE
WHAT KIND OF NEIGHBOURHOOD DO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN?
In recent years we have seen gay hate shootings, terrorism, Political leaders murdered and the racist outbursts post the EU referendum. The clinical psychologist Dr. Robert Lusson says that “Fear is a bigoted master compelling us to behaviours and actions we would never choose were we free from its incessant calling.” I liked this; fear is an intolerant master that drives us.
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.
We Are Making Disciples
Discipleship and our planet
I’ve just come back from preaching at a church that used little plastic disposable cups for communion. Probably about 500 were used which equates to about 26,000 little plastic cups in a year (never mind the throw-away coffee cups it also used).
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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?
Marriage
Discipleship in practise
Most of us remember our wedding day with great clarity...
Committed to Christ, Committed to His Family?
Have you ever had a good read of an internet review?
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.
DO I NEED TO GO TO CHURCH TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
Three aspects of why church is important….
Church isn’t a prerequisite for being ‘saved,’ but I would argue that to live a radical, empowered discipled life, church has to be an intrinsic part of it; to inspire, equip, and challenge you, and to enable you to grow in your faith. Church isn’t at its core what you get from it, it’s what you give to it. So when you’re not at church you might not feel like you miss out but you can be guaranteed others will miss out from what you have to offer.
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.
Making Disciples Interview with Luke Whyte
Cris Rogers speaks with Luke Whyte about discipleship and millennials.
Creating a discipleship culture that is authentic is key.
Making Disciples Interview with Rob Peabody
How do we move people out from the pews onto the streets.
Discipleship was always done on the go. We also talk about using technology to mobilise discipleship.