Mar 11, 2013 Blog

Guest Post: A Lucid Dream (by Rick James)

It’s a Finishers first! This week I’m honored to have a guest blogger, and what a guest at that! Rick James, author of several books, including A Million Ways to Die (David Cook, 2010) and Jesus Without Religion (InterVarsity, 2007), and one of Cru’s most beloved and respected conference speakers, brings us this little nugget. If you’ve read [...]

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Feb 23, 2013 Blog

Discipleship Made Simple

It seems that one of the hardest things to get right within the modern church is discipleship. What does it mean to disciple someone? What makes a person a disciple? It’s a word with a fuzzy definition, often becoming interchangeable with “mentor,” “life coach,” or simply, “believer.” I won’t pretend to know an airtight definition, [...]

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Feb 13, 2013 Blog

Book Excerpt: If Others Do It, Why Can’t We?

In lieu of a brand spanking new post this week, I thought I’d post an excerpt from The Finishers. This section comes at the end of chapter five, entitled ‘The World is Yours.’ It speaks to the idea that as Christians we need to embrace a world Christian mindset – i.e. we must embrace the full [...]

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Feb 5, 2013 Blog

How to Be a Missionary

The answer to this post’s title is a pretty simple one: be a Christian. It’s about as black and white as can be. Christians – all Christians – are missionaries. As my pastor put it in his sermon last weekend, “We are either missionaries, or we are the mission field.” I don’t think there needs [...]

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