Welcome to the Alongsider World

Disciplemaking for Everyday Believers

Author

I write to encourage and equip everyday Christians to make disciples and live on mission where they live, work, or play.

Teacher

I help churches and ministries build disciplemaking cultures that moves disciplemaking from the margins to the mainstream.

Coach

I come alongside everyday leaders helping them live fruitful and faithful lives through a life and ministry plan.

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Bill Mowry

Author • Teacher • Coach

The alongsider world is Jesus’s world, a place where disciples are developed in relational, intentional, and biblical ways. The alongsider world is wherever everyday Christians live, work, play, or worship.

In the alongsider world, everyday Christians walk next to friends helping them do a few simple lifestyle practices -- focus on Jesus, engage with the Scriptures, encourage accountability, application, affirmation, and live on mission.

I’m Bill Mowry and I’m a practitioner in the alongsider world. I live in Columbus, Ohio with my wife Peggy and our dog Ginger. We serve with The Navigators Church ministries, helping churches around the world multiply disciples through disciplemaking cultures. My contribution to Jesus’s alongsider world is through writing, teaching, and coaching.

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By The Word Worked

Powerful words come in small books. By the Word Worked is a small book, a book developed from a series of lectures on preaching by the Episcopal priest Fleming Rutledge. What does she mean by the title? Rutledge places the emphasis on the One animating the Word. The issue is not the preacher but God…

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The Insider’s Business is Circumference

“My business is circumference,” wrote the poet Emily Dickinson. How can a nineteenth-century poet act as an insider? Using a geometric measure, Dickinson creates an analogy to show how her poetry encompasses — draws a circle — around life’s experiences. This circumference was the picture for her poetry. This is fascinating since Dickinson was a…

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Insiders Live in the Quiet

A new neighbor moved in across the street from my parent’s home. Stopping his lawnmower, my dad walked across the street to meet him. Repeated street crossings produced an amicable friendship and then the discovery was made. The new neighbor was a widower and had lung cancer. My dad began to help him do odd…

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Preorder Bill's Newest Book!

The Ways of the Leader

Coming in April, 2025. My latest book with Navpress — Holding the Word. Check out the information page on this website. You can pre-order at Navpress.org or on Amazon.