Robby Gallaty

Despite Popular Opinion, Life's NOT a Beach.Life's Hard, Succeed Anyway is a field guide for navigating whatever life throws at you.- Robby Gallaty, PhD, Pastor, Long Hollow ChurchAllan bravely shares so people who want to reach their highest potential, while navigating the ups and downs of life, find success that only comes when you embrace it and take action.- Joyce Martin Sanders, The Martins, 8 Dove Awards and 3 Grammy NominationsIf you want to be successful, read books by people who are actually successful. As a guy who knows Allan personally...he's the poster child of success.- John Crist, Comedian, Author of the bestselling book, Delete ThatThis book is exhortation in the highest degree. You'll leave with a recalibration of trials, success, and the adventure we were never called to stop living.- Cody Hollister, NFL WIde Receiver, Super Bowl ChampionThe truth is, everyone has pain, and the next wave of adversity is coming. Author Allan Blain knows this firsthand. On the outside many people believed he was doing just fine-great job, beautiful wife and kids, and a growing bank account. At the same time, the riptide of personal addictions, family tragedies, and unthinkable loss, pulled him under, threatening his safety and sanity.These "waves" forced him to reevaluate everything: his calling, purpose, and the very definition of success. Allan emerged with a simple path to build a "boat" that will withstand the storms and succeed despite life's challenges.In this book, you'll discover how to: Stop settling and give up just treading water personally and professionally.Craft a compelling vision big enough to help you rise above the crests.Seize the abundant life you were created for so you can ride high on the waves.

Despite Popular Opinion, Life's NOT a Beach.Life's Hard, Succeed Anyway is a field guide for navigating whatever life throws at you.- Robby Gallaty, PhD, Pastor, Long Hollow ChurchAllan bravely shares so people who want to reach their highest potential, while navigating the ups and downs of life, find success that only comes when you embrace it and take action.- Joyce Martin Sanders, The Martins, 8 Dove Awards and 3 Grammy NominationsIf you want to be successful, read books by people who are actually successful. As a guy who knows Allan personally...he's the poster child of success.- John Crist, Comedian, Author of the bestselling book, Delete ThatThis book is exhortation in the highest degree. You'll leave with a recalibration of trials, success, and the adventure we were never called to stop living.- Cody Hollister, NFL WIde Receiver, Super Bowl ChampionThe truth is, everyone has pain, and the next wave of adversity is coming. Author Allan Blain knows this firsthand. On the outside many people believed he was doing just fine-great job, beautiful wife and kids, and a growing bank account. At the same time, the riptide of personal addictions, family tragedies, and unthinkable loss, pulled him under, threatening his safety and sanity.These "waves" forced him to reevaluate everything: his calling, purpose, and the very definition of success. Allan emerged with a simple path to build a "boat" that will withstand the storms and succeed despite life's challenges.In this book, you'll discover how to: Stop settling and give up just treading water personally and professionally.Craft a compelling vision big enough to help you rise above the crests.Seize the abundant life you were created for so you can ride high on the waves.

If you are serious about being a disciple of Jesus Christ, a discipleship group can help you achieve that goal. Jesus established this model by forming and leading the first discipleship group--and it worked. The men who emerged from that group took the gospel to the world, and ultimately laid down their lives for Christ. Growing Up: How to Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples offers a manual for making disciples, addressing the what, why, where, and how of discipleship. Robby Gallaty, pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church and founder and president of Replicate Ministries, teaches you how to utilize D-Groups to grow your relationship with God, how to defend your faith, and how to guide others in their relationships with God.

A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Disciplemaking in Any Church Over the last few decades American churches have produced plenty of converts but not as many mature believers. The studies show the majority of Christians don't even understand the basics of the faith. But how do you tackle such a big problem?Replicate shows church leaders how to make disciples who make disciples and get the rest of your church on board as well. This one-on-one relational ministry is how Jesus laid the foundation for His church that is still growing today, and it's how we continue the work in our own local congregations. Learn the five marks of a healthy disciplemaking church, how to influence culture, uproot misconceptions of the church and the gospel, and change your church and community. No more focusing on mere numbers, it's time to grow in maturity and through multiplication.

Preaching for the Rest of Us serves as a starter's guide to text-driven preaching. Driven by the conviction that pastors hold the weighty and honorable responsibility of explaining Scripture to their congregations, Gallaty and Smith present a clear step-by-step process for re-presenting Scripture in compelling text-driven sermons. This unique type of preaching is the interpretation and communication of a text of Scripture driven by the substance, structure, and spirit of the text. It's not the presentation of a sermon, but the re-presentation of a text of a Scripture. For those who don't feel trained for text-driven preaching, whose preaching template is tired and predictable, or need a preaching restart, Preaching for the Rest of Us provides a compelling reason and method for preaching texts of Scripture.

The CSB Disciple's Study Bible guides an individual's journey in following Jesus, by featuring discipleship themed study notes, as well as tools and resources that equip Christians to disciple others. Included is the Foundations 260 Reading Plan, featuring 260 concise daily readings with commentary from Pastor Robby Gallaty and ample page space to engage the text and journal via the H.E.A.R journaling method (Highlight-Explain-Apply-Respond). With additional articles on discipleship from the team at Replicate Ministries, The Disciple's Study Bible will help foster engagement and practical application of God's Word in the life of a disciple on a daily basis. Features include: Introduction to The CSB Disciple's Study Bible and Foundations 260 (F260) reading plan by Pastor Robby Gallaty, discipleship themed study notes, F260 Reading plan with commentary and H.E.A.R journaling space, discipleship articles from the team at Replicate Ministries, book introductions featuring timelines, outlines, and contribution to the Bible, center-column cross-references, topical subheadings, two-column text, concordance, smyth-sewn binding, presentation Section, and full-color maps. The CSB Disciple's Study Bible features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible(R) (CSB). The CSB stays as literal as possible to the Bible's original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture's life-transforming message and to share it with others.

We have lost an essential understanding of Jesus—his Jewishness.Through the years, our understanding of Jesus has been shaped by different cultural influences, and many Western Christians have formed an inaccurate perspective of Jesus and his teachings, beliefs, and ways of acting.In Robby Gallaty's deeply reformative book, he reveals the essential Hebraic culture, customs, and nuances many Christians have forgotten or never learned. And he argues that as long as Jesus's Jewish context is misplaced and misunderstood, our understanding of the Bible, our faith, and the church falls far short.The Forgotten Jesus will open your eyes to:The first-century world in which Jesus lived and its connection to the time of the Old Testament.The vast differences between the Western and Middle Eastern mind, and how our modern approach to understanding the Bible is influenced far more by the Greeks and Romans than by a Hebrew way of thinking.Essential textual connections between the parts of the Bible that we often overlook.Important Hebraic perspectives on the Messiah to point out some errors many Christians have believed through the years.Why Jesus’s words on the cross about God forsaking him may have deeper meaning than we realize.By uncovering the teaching of the first- and second-century rabbis and Christian theologians, and highlighting little-known Jewish idioms and traditions, Gallaty takes Christians on a biblical journey to rediscover a forgotten Jesus from a biblical perspective, deepening your relationship with God.

From the author of the bestselling book The Disciple-Making Pastor comes a call to Christian leaders to let go of their addiction to secular models of leadership rooted in pragmatic success. Most leadership literature talks about having the right kind of leadership personality. You know the type: big-picture visionaries who serve others and get the best out of people. But the popular pattern of doing what works and getting rewarded for it is actually the enemy of Christian leadership. It thrives on making our work impersonal and exploitive. Far too often, it serves the leader rather than those the leader leads. Sadly, this pattern dominates Christian leadership in the West.We need a different style of leadership—one patterned after Jesus. Jesus influenced others because of who he was, not because he was well-known or a person of power or because he had mastered a set of skills or implemented an effective leadership strategy. He could have completed his mission living in your house, driving your car, married to your spouse, working at your office, and raising your kids because leadership comes down to character. Many who aspire to leadership are looking for the right circumstances so they can lead. Many in positions of leadership find it difficult to lead because of obstacles, such as a lack of funds, authority, and or confusion about methods. Jesus faced all of these, and more, yet he accomplished his mission.This is not a book about improving Christian organizations; it is about changing how Christians lead. It is for anyone with a megaphone, a platform to speak, who wants to lead others in being a witness for truth. It is for people with a pulpit, whether that pulpit be a business or a position of influence in a domain of the culture: entertainment, sports, politics, industry, the arts, academia, or religion. If you are someone to whom others listen—this book is for you.Each chapter begins with a title and statement about Jesus’ life. Jesus was a different kind of teacher. The Pharisees focused on doing the right thing. Jesus emphasized becoming the kind of person who wants to do the right thing. Others taught the importance of doing good; Jesus taught how to be good. He didn’t teach behavior modification alone; he taught how to change the sources of behavior. Knowing how to lead others begins by seeing Jesus as your leader.

Discipleship is the buzzword today. Many believers are contemplating in a fresh way what it means to take the Great Commission seriously. Rediscovering Discipleship takes the guesswork out of Christian maturity.Based on insights gained from a decade of personally making disciples, author and pastor Robby Gallaty tackles the two hindrances that keep believers from getting involved in making disciples: ignorance and uncertainty. Since many believers have never been personally disciple, they have no model to guide them in discipling others. Their ignorance of the process fuels their uncertainty, which leaves them crippled from the start. With simple principles that are easy to apply, Rediscovering Discipleship provides readers with the tools to follow the Great Commission—to go and actually make disciples who multiply and make disciples.Gallaty begins with a brief historical overview of the discipleship ministries of influential theologians, preachers, and pastors from years past, and then identifies roadblocks that hinder believers from becoming disciples before offering a step-by-step process for readers to immediately get started on the path to effective disciple making.