I feel a bit like a kid right now, waiting my turn at show ‘n’ tell. We recently completed a redesign of our entire website and I’m so excited to share it with you. We’re immensely grateful to
for her brilliant work helping to make the new website look and feel so much sleeker and we hope that it helps to get gospel centred articles and resources out there for you and others to read and be encouraged by.Over the past couple of weeks we paused the newsletter to allow for those changes to be finalised, but because of that we have a bunch of great new articles to share with you. Before I do that though, I just wanted to say thank you so much to those of you who support us by reading this newsletter, as well as the articles and books we publish at GCD,
and I are always immensely blessed to have the opportunity to write to you, and hopefully encourage you each week, and we pray that the articles we share would land in the right way at the right time for many of you reading.We’d love to hear from you too, so please do reply to this newsletter if you’d like to get in touch, or drop a comment below.
Grace and Peace,
Adsum Try Ravenhill is married to Anna and together they are passionate about seeing men and women discipled in the context of the local church. They live in Reading, UK and are part of a church plant that meets in the town hall. Adsum edits the GCD Weekly Newsletter and can be found through his writing at The Raven’s Writing Desk. You can find all Adsum’s previous articles for GCD here.
Recently at GCDiscipleship.com
What I Wish the Church Knew about Grief
by Joy Beless
I know I am not alone in this awkward and uncomfortable response to not only the grief journey of others but also my own. I did not know how to process what I was feeling and experiencing. My head and heart seemed detached from each other.
Here are my suggestions for equipping church leadership and congregations on how to enter into grief and trauma conversations…
How to Encourage Families Going through an Autism Diagnosis
by
We must remember this as we strive to serve one another amid such heartbreaking diagnoses. They are not a disability: They are another person made in the image of God; another person given a beautiful personality, heart, mind, and body, and we are called to them as such.
Encounters with Jesus in the Ashes
by
We often want to jump to the imperatives of Scripture. What do we do now? How do we obey? What does God expect of me? These are wonderful questions that we should care about. Yet, we cannot obey or please God without being first immersed in the gospel. Our eyes must be fixed on Jesus.
When Healing Resembles the Slow Unfolding of a Rose
by Alana Walker
Though my healing journey has been a long, arduous one, I am grateful for every day of it. Because of the slow unfolding of my restoration, I have experienced the Lord’s tenderness, compassion, and patience in ways I never would have if he had healed my wounds with a snap of his fingers.