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Discipling your children   Importance of discipling your children.   What do we mean by discipling?   Were you discipled? By Who? How?   Shared resources. Encouragement.   Helping them follow Jesus, to be a disciple themselves.   What do they need to know? Age-appropriate   What have you learned along the way that has […]

Listen What? Definitions Listen vs. Understand vs Hearing Engaged listening What hinders it? Distracted, not focused. Poor timing. Environment noisy, distracting. Physical pain, sickness Assumptions, assuming you know without actually listening, preconceived ideas Critical spirit kills people talking Should we ever not listen? Gossip/slander Listen to heart/message behind the words (problem, whining, speaking untruths); address

Group size and Disciple Making – Does It Matter?   Faith Communities Today Research 2020 “Our best estimates are there are between 350,000 and 375,000 congregations of all faith traditions within the nation. The trends around size will be addressed in a bit, but the vast majority of the country’s congregations are small. 70% of

Developing Strong Character William Straton Bruce, The Formation of Christian CharacterCharacter is nature and nurture. It is nature cultured and disciplined, so that natural tendencies are brought under the sway of the moral motive. His natural individuality marks off a man from his fellows by clear and specific differences. But this individuality may be non-moral.

A Kingdom Focus for Your Marriage   WHAT choices priorities, focus values relationships   WHY temporal vs. eternal Too easy to get distracted by world/life value gives purpose, clarity of purpose guides decision making, use of resources/time/energy makes life simpler, narrows choices/options Relieves fear for future, needs adds stability; foundation, solid basis for life  

Looking for questions and topics for future shows! Calling for requests and suggestions! Write us at talk@runwithhorses.net or the Run With Horses Podcast Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/RWHpodcast If what we are doing is helpful to you, we want to know about it. Our goal is to encourage and equip you to be more like Jesus as you

The Smith family is in the midwest on a 7 month furlough before returning to Japan. If you want to follow along with the ministry side of things, Susan manages www.smithlife.net to let people know more about life and ministry in Japan.  

Joy! Where do you find yours?    Joy of knowing you have a companion for the long haul (as far as we know); togetherness.   Joy of misunderstanding . . . and finding humor in it afterward.   Joy in growing to know each other better – and be known better than by anyone else

Questions and Answers! Send your questions to talk@runwithhorses.net to be included in the next listener Q&A. Is discipleship just for new Christians? What if my church is not doing anything intentional to make disciples now? How long does it take? What materials should I use? How do you know where a person should start? How

For resources we recommend on making disciples, check out the resources page of our website, www.runwithhorses.net   Roles of a Disciple Maker Each role emphases a different aspect of making disciples.   Teacher – facts, transmit information, can do in a group of most any size.   Coach – includes evaluation as well as practical