The world tells us to perform our way to value—work harder, serve more, achieve better. We chase approval from family, friends, bosses, even our churches. But this exhausting cycle of performance misses something crucial: who God says you already are. What if your identity isn’t something you earn, but something you’ve already been given?
In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’re going to challenge the lie that you have to earn your worth. The truth is, if you’re a Christian, you’ve been completely transformed and given a new identity—one that comes with shocking authority and privilege as a co-heir with Jesus himself. When you start living from your true identity instead of trying to create one through performance, everything changes.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
A surprising truth about you contained in Matthew 28
What it really means to be created in God’s image
The authority and privilege you now possess as a Christian
Why the world’s way of earning value will always leave you empty
We’ve all seen hollow public apologies. But most of us won’t face public scandal—we’ll face everyday moments when we’ve hurt someone and need to make it right. Sometimes it’s sin, sometimes it’s unintentional. How do you know the difference? And how do you apologize well?
In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’re going to show you what makes an apology actually work—and what secretly sabotages it. We’ll explore the biblical foundation for making things right, walk through the three core elements every genuine apology needs, and help you spot the four mistakes that torpedo apologies.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
The real reason you’re putting off that apology
What the gospel teaches us about confession and restoration
The three essential components of a genuine apology
If you’re struggling with finding joy in your Christian walk or have a low desire to live on mission and share your faith with others, it may be that you have been taught, and are believing, a very small Gospel.
We’ve learned from scripture to use male pronouns when we talk about God. He’s our Father. But what if there’s a richness to God’s nature that we’ve been missing because we’ve only been looking at half the picture?
In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’re exploring the feminine aspects of God’s divine nature—something that’s been right there in the Bible all along. We’ll look at how both masculinity and femininity reveal different facets of God’s character, how the Holy Spirit is presented as feminine throughout Scripture, and even how Jesus used mothering language to describe his love for people.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
How both masculinity and femininity give us a fuller sense of what God is truly like
Why God is simultaneously above gender while embracing all of it in his nature
How the Holy Spirit is presented as feminine in nature throughout Scripture
How recognizing God’s feminine nature changes the way you pray, worship, and love others
Addiction touches millions of families every day, and the heartache and brokenness that comes with it can feel overwhelming. Real, lasting freedom is possible. But it doesn’t come from just stopping the behavior. Healing happens when we uncover and address the pain, lies, and emotions underneath it all.
In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, I sit down with author Todd Wermers to talk about moving from addiction to freedom. We get into the emotions God created in us that can actually lead us toward destructive patterns, how the Gospel truly rewrites our stories, and why you absolutely cannot do this alone. Community isn’t optional—it’s essential.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
The 8 core emotions we all experience and why they matter in addiction recovery
How good feelings God gave us can become doorways to destructive patterns
Why the Gospel doesn’t just change our behavior—it rewrites our entire story
Why isolation keeps us trapped and community sets us free
I’m often asked what the rhythm of life in our family or missional community looks like; is it a series of planned out activities or just hanging around? Well…both, I guess.
I have found it helpful to think about life in a MC through two filters: organized and organic. My buddy Mike Breen turned me on to this way of looking at it and it has been very helpful.
In the same way that natural, healthy family life contains both of these elements, some aspects of life together are “organized” and structured and some aspects are more “organic” or natural.
Think for a moment about your immediate family or a group of friends. You probably don’t think about that time you spend with them as a succession of events you need to attend (or worse, something you might skip if you’re too busy). We don’t generally tell our friends, “We already met once this week; why do we need to get together again?” They are our friends. We enjoy getting together.
One More Night Together?
We don’t think of our time together as one more night out or as some kind of obligation we need to fulfill. And when we think about our families, we don’t count up the number of events per week that we attend with them. We live with them! There is a fabric to our life together that cannot be reduced to a series of “events.” This doesn’t mean that events and planned activities aren’t good or necessary.
A healthy family life includes planned-out events and reoccurring activity, but we don’t see these as something separate and distinct, because it’s all mixed into the normal rhythm and flow of our life together.
Things like bedtimes, meals, homework, and chores often do take place in an organized way. These are important, and they need to get done, so we put them on a calendar of some sort, and they come around time and again. But we don’t see these things as the sum total of our life together as a family.
Recently my family was together celebrating Thanksgiving. There are definitely parts of this holiday that we plan out. In fact, we almost follow a script in preparing our favorite Polish foods cooked “just like Grandma used to make,” or in using the old pink platters made out of indestructible Melamine that we must use as plates for the meal, or watching a favorite holiday movie and several football games on television. You probably have similar organized aspects, traditions, and reoccurring things you do during the holidays as well.
Life In The Cracks
These activities provide continuity and they hold great value for us. But those organized things we do together are accentuated and enlivened by the myriad of spontaneous interactions and stuff we do in between—the jokes told and conversations had while cooking together or watching the game, while on a walk to the neighborhood store, a trip in the evening to a favorite pub, or a last stroll in the park to look at the lights. Often, just the hours spent on the couch under blankets watching nothing in particular on TV become cherished and important aspects of our time together.
Life happens in these unplanned, ordinary moments. Ideas and dreams are shared, correction and forgiveness are extended, and our bonds as a family are renewed and strengthened.
Think of it as being like a piece of cross-stitch artwork. The initial fabric with the pattern on it provides the framework and structure; the colorful stitches and needlework that you add to that bring the whole thing to life. Without the regularity of the pattern, you would have nothing, and the stitch work would be random and meaningless. On the other hand, no one hangs up a white canvas cross-stitch pattern with a black-and-white outline on it. The true beauty comes when the different colors and textures are added in.
If you’ve been struggling with life in community–either too structured or too loose with no real intention, the next best time to focus on organized and organic rhythms is now.
Question: So which do you most naturally lean towards– organized activities or organic interaction–when it comes to disciple-making?
