Is Your Parenting Style Transactional or Grace-based?
Many of us find our parenting style too often mirrors the ways we were raised by our own parents. And this is not always a good thing.
My wife, Tina, and I were raised in pretty similar ways. If we had to name the style of parenting our parents often used we would call it “transactional”. Every desire or action–even our emotions–was connected to a certain requirement or response based on the “value” of what it was we desired. Or avoided. (more…)
How to Actually Apologize (Not Just Say Sorry)
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
- Four deadly phrases that undermine your sincerity

The Gospel Is Not Just About Your Afterlife
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.
Christianity is not about sin management and the Good News of the gospel is not just about your afterlife. Let me unpack this for you, stick with me, you’ll love this. [Get my latest free training on Gospel Fluency now.] (more…)
Seeing God Fully Masculine, Feminine, and Beyond
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

4 Generation Leadership Explosion
As a leader, your time spent developing and equipping the right people can have immediate and expansive results.
Leadership development is really just apprenticeship or discipleship further along the path of faith, knowledge, and skills. Discipleship further up the slope. If you have trained people in such a way that they can now reproduce and train others, in turn producing future leaders, you have the makings of a true movement.
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I am the author of the top selling book, The Gospel Primer. My latest books, Transformed and Small is Big, Slow is Fast came out recently on Zondervan.
I help those with a high commitment to intentional living in the areas of their discipleship, family and mission acquire the leadership skills and tools necessary to succeed and leave a lasting legacy.