3 Easy Questions Quickly Turn Strangers Into Friends

Making new friends or transitioning a group of unrelated relationships into a community can be a challenge. Or feel uncomfortable. However, people are all the same and desire growing connections within any circle of acquaintances. I want to show you how you can easily help facilitate this.

I have used these three questions many times to break the ice and kill the awkwardness of things. They lead to great conversation, a lot of laughs, and a pretty quickly turn strangers into friends. [Be sure to get my 3 Easy Questions Cheat Sheet.]
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The Missionary Life You Were Created to Live

Living as a missionary is more about being than doing. Too often, we think of missionaries only as people who pack up and move overseas. But the truth is, if you are a Christian, you already are a missionary—it’s part of your identity in Christ. 

In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, I share what it looks like to live every day as a missionary right where God has placed you. We’ll talk about how to embrace this calling in your neighborhood, cross the street before you cross the globe, and take simple steps to live as God’s sent ones together.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

  • Who the Bible calls “missionaries” or “sent ones” in everyday life.
  • How your missionary identity flows straight from God’s own heart.
  • Why “Go and make disciples” is not optional—it’s Jesus’ command.
  • How to start living as a missionary right where you live today.

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A group of friends gathered around a campfire happily sharing about their missionary life

Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. 

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How Do I Get Started Teaching My Family to Live Out Our Faith in Everyday Life With Others?

Today, I answer the question: “How do I get started teaching my own family to live out our faith in normal, everyday life with others? What are the very first baby-steps I should take?”

This is an important question Frank, because regardless of where we’re at in our faith journey or family age and stage of life, truly making disciples and living out our faith in everyday life with others starts right in our own home. (more…)

10 Keys To Building Deeper Friendships

Friendship isn’t optional if we want to make disciples—it’s essential. But for many of us, building deeper friendships feels harder than ever. We’re busy, distracted, or unsure how to take relationships beyond surface-level.

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we sat down with author Twyla Franz to talk about what it really takes to grow friendships that last. You’ll hear practical ways to open your life, welcome interruptions, and start investing in trust-filled relationships that make discipleship a natural part of everyday life. 

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

  • Why friendship and trust are the true pathways for disciple-making.
  • Why openness and vulnerability don’t have to be scary.
  • Why “divine interruptions” may be God’s invitation to deeper connection.
  • 10 simple ways to build friendships that actually transform lives.

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Two lifelong friends having a deep conversation.

Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. 

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Everyday Opportunities to Bless Your City

As God’s kids, living together as his family here on Earth, we’ve been called to serve others—not as a duty, but as a natural overflow of our identity in Christ. And the truth is, some of the smallest, simplest acts of service can make the biggest impact in people’s lives and in our cities.  

This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll show you how serving your city in little, everyday ways can provide both a picture and an experience of the gospel. You’ll hear 12 powerful, yet simple ways to improve your neighborhood and bless the people around you. And these aren’t hard or expensive—they’re things anyone can do, starting today!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Why serving others puts God’s character on display in the world.
  • How small acts of service often spark reconciliation and restoration.
  • 12 simple things you can do right now to bring life to your city.
  • How your family or group can jump in and start serving this week.

Get started here…

Different books about gospel are lined up to create a display similar to houses in a city.

Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. 

Please check out this new episode and be sure to get this week’s FREE Download of the Big 3.

Are You Wasting Time Developing the Wrong People?

I’ve spent decades discipling and developing leaders. While there has certainly been fruit and multiplication, for years it seemed that the amount of effort I was putting into training up leaders wasn’t yielding a proportionate harvest. I wonder how often I’ve spent time developing the wrong people?

In my earliest experiences with starting missional communities and planting churches, I learned that I had to keep my eye on the prize of ongoing leadership development. It had to remain a high priority. We equipped everyone in community in the same way as we tried to raise a new crop of leaders. (more…)

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