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This-4-5 hour disciplemaking training experience takes you to the very heart of disciplemaking friendships that flourish and multiply. It's an exploration of how to live the "one-another" as found in the Bible. It will be the fastest 4-5 hours you've ever experienced! Why? Because this is NOT a lecture or passive  workshop. It's fun, thought-provoking, encouraging, and transformational. Bring your Bible and your framily (friends and family). Each person receives a training manual and a One Another Living Guide for taking what you learned back to those where you live, work, play, and church. Y ou'll encounter these four sessions: *  Session 1   No Relationships = No Ministry;  Know Relationships = Know Ministry An out-of-the-box learning experience will get us started and explain why relationships are the heart of ministry—and God’s mode of operation for impacting and changing the lives of those in our ministry! *  Session 2   God-Powered Relationship Skills

We are disciplemaking missionaries with Cadre Missionaries . From time to time, we give an update here. As you read this, we are on our way to a ten-day disciplemaking ministry trip in Texas! I'll be preaching, teaching, and doing disciplemaking training. We'll also be missionaries of encouragement to many of our friends along the way in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Laredo. Can you help us? 1. Will you please pray for us?     * Please pray for us as we travel and encourage and equip God's people all over Texas.     * Email me if you'd like to be a part of our prayer team . 2. Can you help us financially?      * We're praying for $2,000 for travel expenses and training materials.        * Donate here . (Please note: "Cadre Allison") A $ gift of any size is a huge encouragement to us. Thank you so much for your prayers and support. You really are God's wind into our disciplemaking sails with Cadre Missionaries.  "Dear friend, you are being

Dear God, I want to thank you for being close to me so far today. With your help, I haven't been impatient, grumpy, judgmental, or envious of anyone. But I will really need your help soon because... I'm about to get out of bed. Amen We make resolutions on New Year's Day to become better people. Our hearts are often in the right place, but somehow, our resolve doesn’t quite translate into results. Research on New Year’s resolutions indicates that... Within the first two months of the new year, 25 percent of us will break our promises.  By six months, nearly 40 percent will have failed.  By the end of the year, approximately 82 percent will be unsuccessful.  Think about your own life. Haven’t you ever made a New Year’s resolution to diet only to gain weight? We all start out so well, but most of us don’t finish well. As the great poet/philosopher Homer once said:   “I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I’m lu

"For two years now I've been reading through the Bible each year with my friends. It's challenging but so fulfilling. The first year, Bill encouraged me to look for Jesus in the Old Testament. I discovered that Jesus is everywhere in the OT! The most rewarding part of reading the Bible was wrestling what I read each day with my friends/neighbors Bill and Jamie. Whether it was in person on our walks in the neighborhood or through group text, we constantly prodded and encouraged each other as we read the Bible together. I highly recommend reading the Bible with a few friends. They keep you encouraged and accountable in a good way. It has changed my life. Best investment of time I’ve ever spent." —Brady Miller   Would you like a better, stronger relationship with God? By far the single most important thing I've done that has helped my relationship with God is reading through the Bible — with some friends . News Flash:   A better, stronger relationship with God and ot

By far the single most important thing I did last year that helped my relationship with God was reading through the Bible — with some friends . I'd like YOU  to join me and a Cadre of friends  to read through the Bible— together —this year. But first, let's talk about your big  BUT . I know. You've tried to read the Bible in a year before,  BUT  about the time you got to Leviticus you ran out of gas. (Pun intended.) Then you felt guilty about it. (I feel your pain.) You felt like such loser! As a result, you now have a big  BUT . Well, let me help you get over your big  BUT  by introducing you to… Did you get that? This year is the  guilt-free —not the  guil-ty —read through the Bible. What in the world are you talking about Bill Allison? Let me be clear: If you dare to read the Bible with us this year (and I hope you will), you most certainly are going to miss a day—or more—from time to time. It happens to me every year we do this. So what happens when you miss a day? A fe

When your "friends" receive your missionary  prayer card  and put it on their  refrigerator. This prayer card just got a whole lot better! (Wondering what (TW + K4) x D3 is? Go here .) Well, let me say right off the bat that my wife, Stacy, has never been hotter! We’re 34 years in—and this is the hottest I’ve ever seen her. That’s right. She’s deep in the throes of menopause. (Shouldn’t it be called “womenopause”? No wonder men are so confused.) Just between you and me, I’m starting to long for the good ol’ days of PMS. For example, Stacy, Ivy, and I were in the car driving to a church where I was scheduled to preach. We were 30 minutes into the drive, and I noticed that I was still freezing. Our car makes it possible for both people in the front seats to adjust the temperature to two different levels.  This pic is from our car. Told ya. I looked and mine was on 83 and Stacy’s was on 60—and 60 was clearly winning. I’m writing this letter wearing three layers of shirts and co