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A ray of light: Cadre’s One Another Living Guide
In an amazing experiment, scientists set out to test an animal’s survival instincts. The scientists dropped a rat into a large jar of...

Bill Allison
Oct 9, 20172 min read


Title: Seldom Resist the Urge to Be Generous. It’s Probably Not the Devil.
When I was about 20-years-old and in Bible college, I took a rare weekend to head home to visit family and friends. Most weekends for me...

Bill Allison
Aug 28, 20173 min read


Why you should quit being a Christian
If you ask someone who goes to church if he/she is a Christian, you’ll likely get a “yes.” However, if you ask the same person if he/she...

Bill Allison
Aug 14, 20172 min read


Hitting the kavanah bullseye
Kavanah is one of the key words we Cadre missionaries use often. It’s a Hebrew word that helps us understand how God empowers us to live...

Bill Allison
Aug 3, 20172 min read


Would you like a better, stronger relationship with God in 2017?
By far the single most important thing I did in 2016 that helped my relationship with God was reading through the Bible—with some...

Bill Allison
Dec 27, 20161 min read


The intentionality of disciplemaking “as you go”
Jesus said, “go and make disciples.” But what did he mean by “go”? Many scholars and theologians believe the best translation of “go” is...

Bill Allison
Nov 7, 20162 min read


How Jesus launched a disciplemaking movement
Sometimes leaders try to start movements of discipleship by casting vision to the masses. However, Jesus did not follow this leadership...

Bill Allison
Oct 26, 20161 min read


Haver: A whole new level of friendship
Haver is a word we Cadre missionaries love to use. It helps us understand how God designed us to live as disciples together. Here’s some...

Bill Allison
Oct 23, 20162 min read


A missionary disguised as a handyman
I ran into him at an office supply store where I was buying a calendar for the new year. As soon as I saw him, my heart lifted. I know...

Bill Allison
Oct 17, 20163 min read


Being a disciplemaking friend to your spouse
Men and women are wired to influence each other. Sometimes we impact our spouses for the better…and other times, for worse. 8 When the...

Bill Allison
Oct 13, 20162 min read


The “No Sweat” Spiritual Workout
The secret to the “NO SWEAT” Workout: Time passes but no growth happens. I’ve discovered the secret to “NO SWEAT” Disciplemaking: Time...

Bill Allison
Oct 10, 20161 min read


Why church matters: a lesson in weology
It’s theologically incorrect to say, “All you need is God.” When we say this, we’re forgetting our weology. What’s weology? In the...

Bill Allison
Oct 9, 20161 min read


Our new digs for disciplemaking ideas, tools and resources
I’m excited to introduce you to Cadre’s updated blog—a merger of several of our earlier niche blogs, now together in one place where you...

Bill Allison
Oct 2, 20161 min read


Do our definitions matter?
A few years ago I was having fun with disciplemaking friends and family by playing Draw Something. It’s pictionary on steroids. You have...

Bill Allison
Sep 27, 20161 min read


The real test of what happens during church…
Here’s some Cadre help for living a love-God-love-people-make-disciplemakers way of life together after church… The One Another Living...

Bill Allison
Sep 24, 20163 min read


Three pennies and God
As a young, faith-filled woman, Mother Teresa of Calcutta told her superiors, “I have three pennies and dream from God to build an...

Bill Allison
Aug 31, 20162 min read


Getting off the treadmill of good intentions
As I look over my first few personal growth plans, I confess that I wrote an exercise goal each year…but never really got into the habit....

Bill Allison
Jul 5, 20163 min read


Turning your friendships into disciplemaking friendships
When I went back to college later in life, I was told that I had a “math deficiency.” I ended up having to buy an introductory...

Bill Allison
Jul 2, 20162 min read
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