The First Yes
3 coursesWhy anyone goes, how to prepare a team, and how to come home well.
Discipleship Courses & Bible Studies
Biblically grounded courses for your church, from new-believer foundations to leader training. Start with a journey that builds course by course, or pick one course for yourself, a discipling pair, or a group.
Start with a journey
A journey is a few courses that build on each other, in order. Follow one from the start, or take any course in it on its own.
Foundations
3 coursesThe essentials of following Jesus, from the gospel to a disciple-making life.
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Called to Lead
3 coursesFormed in character, competency, and calling to lead after the pattern of Jesus.
View the journey →Grace & Truth
2 coursesReceive the grace God gives you, then learn to carry both mercy and truth toward the people around you.
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Leader Path
4 coursesFrom wanting to lead a small group to being ready to shadow one, in four courses.
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Convictions & Conversations
3 coursesGround your convictions, understand the Christian family, and engage other beliefs with grace.
View the journey →Theological Foundations
5 coursesThe building blocks, the story of Scripture, how to read it well, and how to defend the faith.
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Worldview & Culture
6 coursesLearn to think like a Christian in every area of life, and engage the culture with confidence and love.
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All courses
Every course also stands on its own. Each one lists how it is meant to be taken and how many sessions it runs.
Beginner 21 courses
Connecting with God
How the Christian life actually grows: through God's Word, prayer, the Holy Spirit, the church, and worship. These five sessions build the everyday rhythms of…
Created for Community
God never intended you to follow Him alone. From the first church in Acts to your small group today, Christian faith is meant to be lived in community. This…
Everyday Worldview: Thinking Like a Christian in Every Area of Life
Everyone has a worldview: a story they use to make sense of everything. This flagship course helps you see the Christian story clearly (creation, fall,…
Faith in the Public Square
The final sphere of the Worldview & Culture path. Following Jesus does not stop at the church door - it reaches into the public square: politics, the…
Faith, Media & Culture
You are formed by what you consume and give your attention to. Media is a diet for the soul, and attention is the rudder that steers a life. This course helps…
Getting Started on MKDSCPLS
Fifteen minutes, seven short steps. Write a note, answer a question, and choose where you are going next. The only thing here that is about the platform rather…
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Gospel and New Identity
The heart of the good news, and who you become because of it. Over four sessions you move from understanding sin and the cross, to taking your first public…
How to Study the Bible
The Bible isn't just a book to read. It's God's living Word meant to be studied, understood, and applied. This 5-week course teaches you the HEAR method…
Journey Home: Post-Trip Debrief
A guided reflection course to help you process your mission trip experience, share your story, and integrate what God taught you into daily life. Begin on your…
Knowing God: His Character and Promises
Who is the God you've put your faith in? This 5-week study explores God's character through Scripture: His holiness, love, faithfulness, sovereignty, and the…
Living It Out
Faith on the ground: handling money as a steward, standing firm against temptation, sharing your story, and beginning to disciple others. These four sessions…
Mission Trip Preparation
Prepare your heart, mind, and spirit for your upcoming mission trip. Complete these sessions before you go to maximize your impact and deepen your experience.
Prayer: Talking with God
Prayer is a relationship, not a transaction. Over six beginner-friendly sessions you will learn what prayer actually is and why you can come exactly as you…
Radiant: A Woman After God’s Heart
The flagship women’s discipleship course. Radiant’s thesis is that a woman’s radiance is not manufactured (by beauty, performance, roles, or approval) but…
Rooted: Essentials, Liberty & Charity
The on-ramp to understanding what others believe. Rooted is not a doctrine re-teach. It is about how to HOLD a belief. Learn the standard we build on…
The First Yes
Why anyone goes. Six sessions tracing the promise from Genesis to Romans: a blessing aimed at every family on earth, a covenant God kept alone, a God who wants…
The Fruit of the Spirit
If grace is the root, the fruit of the Spirit is the evidence. This four-session course walks slowly through Galatians 5:22-23, exploring how the nine…
The Practice of the Presence of God
A 4-week journey through Brother Lawrence's timeless classic on cultivating continuous communion with God. Learn to transform ordinary moments into sacred…
Working for an Audience of One
A Christian vision of work: for the student at a desk, the athlete on the field, the worker on the job, and everyone in between, young and old. Work is God’s…
Your Group on MKDSCPLS: A Leader's How-To
About twenty five minutes, five short steps, for anyone who leads a group. How to get people in, what you can see about each of them, the notes only leaders…
Your Story: Your Testimony & the Gospel
Your testimony is the most natural bridge to the gospel. In this short course you'll write your own story (life before Jesus, how you met Him, and what's…
Intermediate 19 courses
Biblical Marriage
Marriage is the one covenant most learners will actually live inside, and the culture around them has quietly rewritten it as a contract: a renewable agreement…
Facilitating Small-Group Discussion
Practical training for volunteer small-group leaders: adults leading adult groups and adults leading youth. Learn to facilitate rather than lecture: build…
Forged: A Man After God’s Heart
A house-owned, gospel-centered men’s discipleship course. Forged speaks to the longings that draw men to biblical manhood (a purpose to live for, a wound that…
Having Hard Conversations
Churches struggle to have hard conversations, and the failure runs both ways: silence sold as niceness, and harshness sold as boldness. Ephesians 4:15 refuses…
How to Mentor
Training in the craft of walking with another believer: one ordinary Christian helping another follow Jesus through a season, usually with a course between…
Knowing God's Will
"What is God's will for my life?" This course takes the question seriously and answers it the way Scripture does, beginning with a reversal: most of God's will…
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Leading Your Group
For the leader who has learned to facilitate a discussion and to walk with one person, and is now responsible for a group. Four sessions on the group itself:…
Mercy & Justice
God is perfectly just (He cannot ignore sin) and perfectly merciful: He does not want to destroy the sinner. The cross is the one place those two meet without…
Parenting with Purpose
Children are a heritage from the LORD, entrusted to parents as a stewardship and discipled in the ordinary hours of home (Deuteronomy 6). Six sessions walk the…
Sharing Your Faith
Learn to share the hope you have with confidence and compassion, not as a sales pitch, but as a natural overflow of your transformed life. This 4-week course…
Spiritual Disciplines
The spiritual disciplines are not how we earn God's favor. They are how we put ourselves in the path of His grace. This 6-session study walks through the core…
Stewardship & Generosity
Money is discipleship territory Jesus claimed constantly, and a platform that trains prayer, Bible study, and evangelism but stays polite about money has gone…
Suffering & Lament
Suffering finds everyone eventually, and the church often equips its people for victory but not for the valley. This course is written for two people who are…
The Christian Family Tree
One family, many branches. A charitable tour of the Christian traditions: Catholic, Orthodox, and the whole Protestant family (Lutheran, Anglican,…
The Holy Spirit: Person and Work
The Holy Spirit is the person of the Trinity the church most often either neglects or mishandles, and both errors cost people the same thing: the actual,…
The Road Back: Reconciliation Through Jacob's Story
Jacob lied, cheated, and ran away. Decades later he limped home, embraced the brother he'd wronged, and died blessing his grandchildren. His story is the…
Understanding Grace
Grace is the most foundational concept in Christianity, and the most misunderstood. Most believers can define grace but cannot live in it. This course takes…
Walking With the Hurting: Everyday Care in Crisis, Trauma & Grief
A diagnosis, a death, a marriage that falls apart, and the people around them so often go quiet, afraid of saying the wrong thing. This 6-session course trains…
What Others Believe
A charitable, clear-eyed tour of the world’s faiths and worldviews: Judaism, Islam, the movements that redefine the essentials (LDS & Jehovah’s Witnesses),…
Advanced 8 courses
Apologetics: Defending Your Faith
The sequel to Sharing Your Faith. Sharing Your Faith trains you to tell your story; Apologetics trains you to answer the hard questions it provokes: does God…
Called to Lead: Calling
Where a leader is sent, and whether they will last long enough to get there. The third of three courses rebuilt from the 13-session Called to Lead cohort…
Called to Lead: Character
Who a leader is in Christ before anything a leader does. The first of three courses rebuilt from the 13-session Called to Lead cohort journey: kingdom…
Called to Lead: Competency
What a leader does, resting on who a leader is. The second of three courses rebuilt from the 13-session Called to Lead cohort journey: vision discerned before…
Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible Faithfully
The sequel to How to Study the Bible. How to Study the Bible builds the habit of careful observation; Hermeneutics gives you the principles that turn…
New Testament Survey
Where The Story of Scripture walked the whole Bible's storyline, New Testament Survey slows down over its last quarter: the twenty-seven books, written in…
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Old Testament Survey
Where The Story of Scripture walked the whole Bible's storyline, Old Testament Survey slows down over its first three quarters: thirty-nine books written…
The Story of Scripture
The whole Bible is not a pile of separate lessons. It is one story, with one Author, moving toward one glorious ending. In six sessions you’ll follow the…
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