Understanding and Mastering Complexity, Chapter 5: Co-constructed Learning Enhances Understanding
This short book chapter contains a simple introduction to our theory of teaching called, Co-Constructed Developmental Teaching Theory. It provides short descriptions of the 5 phases of CDTT, as well as practical examples of how the whole model looks as it plays out in...
Primer on CDTT for Leadership, Discipleship, and Learning
This short, 2-page primer introduces Co-Constructed Developmental Teaching Theory (CDTT). It includes the two working models of the theory and a brief description of each phase. Download
Evolving Kolb: Experiential Education in the Age of Neuroscience
This peer-reviewed journal article presents the first biologically-based model of how to teach based on how the brain learns. It re-conceptualizes experiential learning by building cognitive neuroscience, Dynamic Skill Theory, and effective experiential education...
Wanted: The Inhabitation of Jesus
I can sometimes feel lost and overwhelmed, so what brings me peace at the end of the day is remembering that the simple answer is usually the best one.
Experiential Education Lecture – Part 2
Lecture 2 is full of teaching tips and techniques that help a facilitator improve their practice. Focused on some of the brain’s non-conscious processes that affect learning, Jessie gives practical advice based in the art and science of learning.
Experiential Education Lecture – Part 1
How do you teach someone something once, and have them remember it with a high degree of accuracy? How do you lead someone to place of transformation? CDTT is break-through model of teaching and discipleship based in neuro-biology that will forever change the way you communicate.
Fire Conference: Message 3
What if Jesus wants something more of his Bride than revival? What if he wants to do more than just visit and come to stay? The Festival of the Tabernacle give us a pattern that can help us see that when incarnation meets stewarding structures we get something beyond revival – we get inhabitation.
Fire Conference: Message 2
When we learn to own our testimony, we step into the power of our anointing and calling. We come into alignment of who heaven says we are and we bring the power of the grace we carry on our live. We learn to stop retreating from our specific gifts and that the weapons of our warfare are the tools God has taught us how to use.
Fire Conference: Message 1
Your testimony is powerful and scripture says that is it part of how we overcome the evil one. We can do this by rejecting the shame the enemy wants to bring and remembering that God is that author of our story, and he is not apologizing for who you are. Instead, God wants to lead you into the fullness of the life he crafted for you since the beginning.
5 ideas that might just save your church
statistics among generations and church as well as offering practical ideas that you can do as a church leader to connect with people under 50.
A place they want to be
5 practical ways to create a faith community that millennials want to be a part of.
Why do we gather?
This article shares about why we gather in churches and together as people.
Raising up a Generation: How to call Millennials into Leadership
A discussion about how millennials view leadership differently than previous generations and what you can do differently to call millennials into leadership.
River Church Family Sermon
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Fear of failure and how it is robbing us of the kingdom of God
Dive into the idea that fear is the antithesis to faith and how fear holds us back.
A Mature Approach To 5Q
The foundational and constitutional text for the church’s five-fold ministry is Ephesians 4:11-13. When considering the text of these verses, we often readily acknowledge and agree with the stated goal of ‘unity in our faith’ and ‘maturity in Christ.’ But...
Can 5Q Bring Unity To Our Political Divide?
While the times in which we live may be unprecedented, the attitudes in the human heart are not. Jesus, upon ascending into heaven, left the work of discipling all nations in the hands of fallible, but hopeful, spirit-led human beings. Jesus left the reputation of...
Church for the rest of us
This article talks about church through the eyes of an introvert. In it there is a break down what church feels like for introverts and offers practical ideas about how to make an introverts experience in church better.