Last week an exciting news story came out that was 30 years in the making. For quite some time there has been much debate about the origins of the universe, but in particular, why does the universe continue to have expanding mass? If there was nothing, then there was something and that mass continues to [...]

Recently The Atlantic released an incredibly well articulated and thoughtful article that has exploded and gone viral entitled, “Why women still can’t have it all.” I really encourage you to read it, though it is lengthy. It’s been passed around quite a bit on 3DM’s team and discussed via email, text, facebook and face-to-face. Sally, [...]

One of the exercises we frequently have leaders do in our Learning Communities is to perform a SWOT analysis of their church community as it currently is. We have them identify where they are currently experiencing Breakthrough, Frustration, Battle and Failure. It might not come as a galloping surprise that when it comes to owning [...]

Adoption: A family on mission We spend a lot of time talking about how to develop a Family on Mission. But what does it look like when the family becomes the mission? Join Kim and Dave Rhodes in this webinar as they talk about their journey of Adoption as a Family on Mission and how [...]

We’ve been doing Missional Communities for years and years, and in that time, we’ve always tried to boil it down to the most essential ingredients to help pass it on to others. In the last year, I believe we’ve most simply honed it down to these 5 essential ingredients of a Missional Community: Size of [...]

The following is a blog post from GaveWrites.com that explores what it looks like to disciples kids and be a dad. Some GREAT insight here and we wanted to share it: In my discipleship group, I’ve recently been introduced to a few “life-shapes,” simple geometric forms that serve to both teach and remind what a [...]

We talk about discipleship and mission a lot on this blog. That’s par for the course, yeah? But check out this excerpt from Eric Geiger’s blog post The Bottom-Line of Church Ministry. It expresses, in a unique way, so much of what we’ve been going after in the last 18 months” “For a church to [...]

For a few years now, people have been asking us to develop children’s curriculum that utilizes the discipleship language we’ve developed (LifeShapes) as well as the discipling principles we train church leaders in. Well…that day has finally arrived! We are calling the curriculum KAIROS QUEST. If you click here, you can download a free sample [...]

As I’ve said many times before: human beings are creatures of overreaction. We have a tendency to jump from ditch to ditch — often throwing the baby out with the bath water. We just can’t help ourselves. After decades in ministry, I’ve seen what this tendency can lead to over time. And one thing I’ve [...]

Leadership is one of the most over-used and overwrought topics in Christian ministry today. Yet for all the books, blogs and conferences, there are two staggering realities we must come to grips with: First, while most churches believe they have leadership development programs, in actuality they have programs that recruit and train volunteers. A volunteer [...]