Being Salt and Light in Our Divided Culture

Clearly, we live in an increasingly divided culture. Do we retreat, or do we engage this cultural chasm with a person-to-person and systemic response? Maybe, as Jesus said, we can begin to live as both SALT and LIGHT despite our differences.

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar shows us three very important ways of living as salt and light in our divided culture. This is a “head, heart, hands” approach you can begin today.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• A surprising list of the things that are dividing our culture today.
• Why we want to start advocating for the underdog.
• How erring on the side of grace changes us–and them.
• Ways to keep an open door and an open mind.

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Making The Mission of God a Family Story

Parents raising a “righteous brood” is part of Jesus’ plan to see justice, mercy, and the fullness of his kingdom transform the earth. He wants to see you growing your kids into people who will usher in God’s kingdom, for the good of all.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar speaks with author Hugh Halter who, along with his wife, Cheryl, has raised his family to live an adventurous life, following Jesus and bringing God’s good news to those around them. Their story will really encourage you!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• The Mission of God is truly a family story.
• How to help your kids fall in love with Jesus.
• It’s not perfect parenting God is looking for.
• The beauty and results of suffering together.

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Being Missionaries to Our Neighbors: A Discipleship Journey

Most Christians are sick of the “hamster wheel” of ministry activities they’re expected to fit into their schedules. And it can be frustrating trying to get the folks in your church to engage in discipleship and outreach in their busy, daily lives. 

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar and his wife Tina share their story of how they moved from mega-church staff to neighborhood missionaries. They learned how discipleship and mission were designed by God to fit into the normal rhythms of everyday life.

And it changed everything!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Caesar and Tina’s personal journey may inspire your own next steps of faith.
• The amazing benefits of living on mission as a lifestyle.
• Why your family needs you to shift from a Sunday-only experience of church.
• How to find help in making discipleship as a lifestyle part of your own story.

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Moving People To Maturity Through Relational Growth

How we invest in our relationships is a big part of making disciples that make more disciples and lead others in the church. Jesus lived intentionally with his disciples by inviting them to join him in every aspect of life, and by challenging them in ways that encouraged trust, growth, and maturity.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar speaks with a married couple who are making disciples and developing leaders through intentionally building both invitation and challenge into their relationships with others.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• The importance of calibrating both invitation and challenge in relationships.
• How this has implications for making disciples and developing leaders.
• The ways that invitation and challenge speak into marriage and parenting.
• Examples from practitioners showing how it works in real life.

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Discipleship Rhythms For a Community on Mission

Ministry and discipleship cannot merely be a series of events on the calendar. If all we have are organized events, then what we offer people is a program. But, if all we do in our disciple-making is organic and rarely organized or predictable, it is hard for people to know what it is we’re asking them to commit to.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar speaks with master disciple-maker, Gino Curcuruto, on how the rhythms of a community on mission very much mirror life as a family. We need both organized and organic rhythms. We’ll show you how to find and create a balance between them.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Discipleship should not be a program we offer others.
• How to help people understand what we are asking them to commit to.
• The need for both organized and organic rhythms in community.
• How predictable patterns naturally lead to life-on-life together.

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4 Truths About God That Will Impact Your Parenting

What you believe about God, overall and in the moment, affects how you parent your kids. Sometimes what we say we believe, and what our actions show we believe, are far apart.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll give you 4 truths about God that will forever challenge, and hopefully change, your parenting. And BTW, this will apply to the hearts of non-parents too… trust me!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Parenting is NOT primarily about behavioral modification.
• Why if you don’t believe God is truly great, you’ll try to control everything in your kids’ life.
• Truths about God that are behind all of your kids’ actions (and yours).
• 4 truths about God (his character and how he acts in the world) that dramatically speak into how we’re currently parenting.

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