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For Discipleship Coordinators & Church Leaders

Your Church's Discipleship Pathway

A complete framework to take every member from wherever they are to where God is calling them, with the tools to support every step.

77
Courses & Reading Plans
4
Growth Tiers
1 day
to 365 days

One Platform, Every Stage of Growth

Structured courses and daily reading plans that meet people where they are, with group tools so no one walks alone.

Choose Your Path

Multi-week facilitated courses with workbooks, or self-guided daily reading plans. Assign what fits each group's season.

Grow Together

Small groups with volunteer leaders. Discussion posts, HEAR journaling, and Scripture memory, accountability built in.

Track Progress

Badges, streaks, and completion tracking. Leaders see who's engaged, who needs encouragement, and where people are.

The Pathway

From first steps in faith through deep study and into leadership. Click any course to see what's covered in each session.

1

Foundations

For new believers & new members
Gospel and New Identity
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 step of obedience in baptism, and then into the new identity that belongs to everyone who trusts Jesus. This is the starting place for a life of following Christ.</p>
  1. Session 1: The Problem - Sin and Separation
  2. Session 2: The Solution - Jesus Saves
  3. Session 3: The Declaration - Baptism
  4. Session 4: Your New Identity in Christ
Connecting with God
5 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 relationship with God and his people that turn a new believer into a growing disciple.</p>
  1. Session 1: The Bible - God's Word to You
  2. Session 2: Prayer - Talking with God
  3. Session 3: The Holy Spirit - God in You
  4. Session 4: The Church - You Belong to a Family
  5. Session 5: Worship - A Lifestyle, Not Just Sunday
Living It Out
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>Faith on the ground: handling money as a steward, standing firm against temptation, sharing your story, and beginning to disciple others. These four sessions turn foundations into a life that bears fruit and passes the faith on.</p>
  1. Session 1: Stewardship and Generosity
  2. Session 2: Temptation and Spiritual Warfare
  3. Session 3: Sharing Your Faith
  4. Session 4: The Disciple-Making Life
Created for Community
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 4-week course explores why community matters, what real fellowship looks like, how to navigate conflict, and how to find your role in the body of Christ.</p>
  1. Session 1: God's Design for Community
  2. Session 2: Authentic Fellowship - Beyond the Surface
  3. Session 3: Navigating Conflict in Community
  4. Session 4: Your Place in the Body
Your Story: Your Testimony & the Gospel
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 changing now), learn to explain the gospel simply and clearly with the 3 Circles, and walk away with a 60-second testimony you can actually share. Great preparation before a baptism, a mission trip, or any everyday conversation about your faith. Designed to be done in a single sitting or at your own pace.
  1. Session 1: The Gospel Story
  2. Session 2: Your Story, Living the Circles
  3. Session 3: Why Baptism, Why Now
  4. Session 4: Tell Your Story
Prayer: Talking with God
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 are, how to build a prayer life on the scaffold Jesus gave in the Lord’s Prayer, and how to pray the Bible’s full vocabulary of praise, confession, thanks, asking, and lament. The course faces unanswered prayer honestly, teaches the old practice of praying Scripture, and ends with praying together and a small, sustainable personal rhythm. No church background assumed.
  1. Session 1: Invited In: What Prayer Is and Why You Can Come
  2. Session 2: "Pray Then Like This": The Lord’s Prayer as Scaffold
  3. Session 3: The Full Vocabulary: Praise, Confession, Thanks, Asking, and Lament
  4. Session 4: When Heaven Is Quiet: Unanswered Prayer, Honestly
  5. Session 5: Borrowed Words: Praying the Bible
  6. Session 6: Not Alone: Praying Together and Building a Life of Prayer
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Growth

For growing Christians deepening their walk
Knowing God: His Character and Promises
5 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 promises He makes to His people. Understanding who God is transforms how you pray, trust, and follow Him.</p>
  1. Session 1: God Is Holy
  2. Session 2: God Is Love
  3. Session 3: God Is Faithful
  4. Session 4: God Is Sovereign
  5. Session 5: God's Promises to You
How to Study the Bible
5 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 (Highlight, Explain, Apply, Respond), a simple but powerful framework for engaging with Scripture that you can use for the rest of your life.</p>
  1. Session 1: Why Study the Bible & Introducing HEAR
  2. Session 2: H - Highlight: What Stands Out?
  3. Session 3: E - Explain: What Does It Mean?
  4. Session 4: A - Apply: How Does This Change My Life?
  5. Session 5: R - Respond: Talking Back to God + Building a Lifelong Habit
The Road Back: Reconciliation Through Jacob's Story
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 Bible's most honest picture of reconciliation: with God, with others, and with yourself. This 6-week study follows Jacob's messy journey because the road back is the one most of us actually walk.</p>
  1. Session 1: How Things Break
  2. Session 2: The Distance
  3. Session 3: The Consequences
  4. Session 4: The Wrestling
  5. Session 5: The Embrace
  6. Session 6: The Blessing
Sharing Your Faith
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 covers why we share, how to tell your story, how to explain the gospel clearly, and how to have natural spiritual conversations.</p>
  1. Session 1: Why We Share
  2. Session 2: Your Story Matters
  3. Session 3: The Gospel Simply
  4. Session 4: Everyday Conversations
The Practice of the Presence of God
16 sessions Start Mentoring →
A 4-week journey through Brother Lawrence's timeless classic on cultivating continuous communion with God. Learn to transform ordinary moments into sacred encounters through practical exercises, reflection, and discussion.
  1. Session 1: The Initial Conversion
  2. Session 2: The Habitual Sense of God's Presence
  3. Session 3: Faith, Hope, and Love
  4. Session 4: The Soul's Gaze on God
  5. Session 5: Getting Started (Letters 1-2)
  6. Session 6: Overcoming Difficulties (Letters 3-4)
  7. Session 7: The Practice in Action (Letters 5-6)
  8. Session 8: Persistence in Practice (Letters 7-8)
  9. Session 9: Deeper Communion (Letters 9-10)
  10. Session 10: Trust in Providence (Letters 11-12)
  11. Session 11: Suffering and Presence (Letters 13-14)
  12. Session 12: Final Encouragements (Letter 15)
  13. Session 13: Necessary Practices
  14. Session 14: Union with God
  15. Session 15: On the Presence of God
  16. Session 16: Integration and Application
Understanding Grace
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 you beyond the Sunday school definition into the life-changing reality of grace: what it actually is, why we resist it, how to receive it personally, and how to extend it to others.</p>
  1. Session 1: The Nature of Grace
  2. Session 2: The Performance Trap
  3. Session 3: Receiving Grace - Forgiving Yourself
  4. Session 4: Extending Grace - Forgiving Others
The Holy Spirit: Person and Work
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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, present help of God. This course walks the ridge between the two ditches, functional neglect on one side and overheated obsession on the other, and keeps its center where the Spirit puts his own: "he will glorify me" (John 16:14). Across six sessions it establishes that the Spirit is a divine person and not a force (he speaks, teaches, wills, and can be grieved and lied to), traces him through the whole storyline from creation to Pentecost, walks his work in salvation from conviction to the witness of adoption, binds him to the Word he breathed and the prayer he prays (including the groaning intercession of Romans 8:26), teaches what the gift passages actually say while installing fruit as the only biblical evidence of the Spirit, and lands in ordinary life, what "be filled with the Spirit" really commands and how walking by the Spirit works in the daily war with sin. This is the queue's most differing-views-sensitive course, and it is built to be read without wincing in both a cessationist and a continuationist congregation: where faithful believers genuinely disagree (baptism in the Spirit, the continuation of the miraculous gifts), it names each view at its strongest with its passages and sends you back to the text and your own pastors. Nothing here is distinctly pentecostal, nothing requires a second-blessing experience, and no gift is ever treated as a measure of anyone's spirituality. Follows Suffering & Lament in the Practical Discipleship track and leans backward on The Fruit of the Spirit, Knowing God's Will, Prayer, and Hermeneutics.
  1. Session 1: A Person, Not a Force
  2. Session 2: The Spirit in the Story
  3. Session 3: The Spirit Who Makes You Alive
  4. Session 4: The Spirit, the Word, and Prayer
  5. Session 5: Fruit and Gifts
  6. Session 6: Filled and Walking
The Fruit of the Spirit
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 character traits Paul names are not produced by willpower but grown by the Holy Spirit in a life rooted in Christ. You will study each fruit in its biblical context, see Jesus embody it, and learn to recognize where the Spirit is already at work in you. Designed as a follow-up to "Understanding Grace", but accessible on its own.</p>
  1. Session 1: Rooted in the Spirit
  2. Session 2: Love, Joy, Peace
  3. Session 3: Patience, Kindness, Goodness
  4. Session 4: Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control
Spiritual Disciplines
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 habits of the Christian life: Bible intake, prayer, fasting, worship and rest, solitude and silence, and service and submission, not as rules to perform but as means to know God. A built-in pre/post self-assessment lets you see your growth in each discipline across the course.
  1. Session 1: Bible Intake - Feeding on the Word
  2. Session 2: Prayer - Communion with God
  3. Session 3: Fasting - Feasting on God
  4. Session 4: Worship & Rest - A Whole-Life Response
  5. Session 5: Solitude & Silence - Alone with God
  6. Session 6: Service & Submission - The Downward Path
Stewardship & Generosity
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
Money is discipleship territory Jesus claimed constantly, and a platform that trains prayer, Bible study, and evangelism but stays polite about money has gone quiet exactly where Jesus was loud. This is the queue's flagged prosperity-risk course, and it treats that as a design constraint rather than a footnote: it names two ditches in Session 1 and keeps naming them, the prosperity distortion (giving as an investment scheme, Malachi 3 read as a vending machine, a God who can be obligated by a check) and its mirror, scarcity and shame religion (giving powered by guilt, money itself called evil, poverty assumed holier, debt treated as moral leprosy). Both make the same mistake from opposite ends, turning a relationship of grace into a transaction of leverage. The course's center is 2 Corinthians 8:9, and every session gets tested against it: grace gives first, and giving is the overflow. Across six sessions it establishes that God owns everything and we manage it (Psalm 24; the owner and the steward), walks money and the heart where Jesus does his most surgical work (Matthew 6; treasure and the throne), teaches contentment as a learned secret that breaks money's leverage (Philippians 4; 1 Timothy 6), walks the New Testament's fullest giving text as grace producing cheerful overflow (2 Corinthians 8-9), widens stewardship to the whole estate of time, gifts, body, work, and margin (Matthew 25's talents), and lands in the open hand toward the poor (Matthew 25's sheep and goats; 1 Timothy 6's "life that is truly life"). Where faithful believers genuinely differ, it says so plainly and sends you back to the text: the tithing question (tithe-continues versus grace-generosity, Session 4) and the "least of these" question (Session 6) get both views with their passages, and the platform takes no side as a test of fellowship. It refuses only the two ditches, because those are not views, they are distortions. Follows The Holy Spirit in the Practical Discipleship track and leans backward on Hermeneutics, Prayer, Knowing God's Will, and Suffering & Lament.
  1. Session 1: The Owner and the Steward
  2. Session 2: Treasure and the Heart
  3. Session 3: The Learned Secret: Contentment
  4. Session 4: Cheerful Overflow: How Grace Makes Givers
  5. Session 5: The Whole Estate: Time, Gifts, Body, and Margin
  6. Session 6: Open Hands: Generosity Toward the Poor
Suffering & Lament
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 usually side by side: the one walking through grief or hardship now, and the friend, spouse, group leader, or mentor beside them. Across six sessions it recovers lament as faithful prayer (a third of the Psalms, plus Job, Lamentations, Habakkuk, and Jesus himself in Gethsemane and on the cross), locates suffering honestly inside the Bible's story, faces the why question with Job while naming the major views without pretending one settles it, plants its full weight on God's presence in Christ (Immanuel, a man of sorrows with wounds still visible in the resurrection), holds resurrection hope together with honest grief, and trains the ministry of presence: how to sit with sufferers and what not to say. It refuses by name the two cruelties that stalk this subject: suffering read as weak faith or hidden sin, and tidy explanation deployed as comfort. This is discipleship, not crisis counseling. Persistent despair, trauma, and any thought of self-harm belong with a pastor and professional care right away, and reaching for that help is wisdom, not weak faith. Follows Knowing God's Will in the Practical Discipleship track and leans on Prayer: Talking with God.
  1. Session 1: A Groaning World
  2. Session 2: Lament
  3. Session 3: Job and the Why Question
  4. Session 4: God With Wounds
  5. Session 5: Hope That Does Not Hurry
  6. Session 6: Sitting in the Ashes
Everyday Worldview: Thinking Like a Christian in Every Area of Life
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
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, redemption, restoration), notice how the surrounding culture quietly forms you, and live out a whole-life faith at work, at home, at play, and in the public square. It closes with faithful presence: how to engage the world with confidence and love, in but not of it. The on-ramp to the Worldview & Culture track.
  1. Session 1: Everyone Has a Worldview
  2. Session 2: The Water We Swim In
  3. Session 3: Faith in Every Sphere
  4. Session 4: Faithful Presence
Forged: A Man After God’s Heart
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 needs healing, a call to courage, integrity, and brotherhood) and grounds every one of them in Scripture, centered on Jesus, the true and perfect Man. It refuses two ditches: "try harder, be a better man" moralism and "reclaim your masculinity" culture-war. Across six sessions men move from identity in Christ (received before performance) into strength under control, sexual integrity, courage and calling, servant leadership at home, and the brotherhood that carries a man to a life finished well. Designed for men’s groups; grace precedes every call to action.
  1. Session 1: Made on Purpose & the New Name
  2. Session 2: Strength Under Control
  3. Session 3: Integrity in the Unseen
  4. Session 4: Courage & Calling
  5. Session 5: At Home, Servant Leadership
  6. Session 6: Brotherhood & the Long Obedience
Radiant: A Woman After God’s Heart
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 received: it flows from being rooted in Christ, the source of a settled identity as a beloved daughter and image-bearer of God. It resists both the moralistic "be the ideal woman" checklist and the therapeutic "you’re already perfect" drift, holding grace and growth together. Across six sessions women move from identity and worth in a world of mirrors, through a reclaimed Proverbs 31, the seasons of life, the inner life of emotions and anxiety, and sexual integrity as belonging, into sisterhood and being sent. Inclusive of every season and state; grace precedes every call to action.
  1. Session 1: Rooted & Radiant, Who You Are in a World of Mirrors
  2. Session 2: The Proverbs 31 Woman You’ve Never Met
  3. Session 3: Seasons (Waiting, Change & the In-Between)
  4. Session 4: The Inner Life (Emotions, Anxiety & the Heart Before God)
  5. Session 5: Set Apart (Sexual Integrity, Wholeness & Grace)
  6. Session 6: Sisterhood & Sent
Mercy & Justice
5 sessions Start Mentoring →
<p>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 either being compromised. Because we have received that mercy, we are called to carry the same tension toward others: holding people accountable without condemning them, and extending mercy without enabling sin. This 5-session study teaches the hardest skill in Christian community: truth and love at the same time. Companion to The Road Back.</p>
  1. Session 1: Two Attributes, One God
  2. Session 2: The Place Where They Meet
  3. Session 3: The Mirror - How We Distort It
  4. Session 4: Accountability Without Condemnation
  5. Session 5: The Ministry of Restoration
Biblical Marriage
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 that lasts as long as both are getting a good deal. Scripture tells a different story from its second page, where God performs the first wedding (Genesis 2), names himself witness to "the wife of your covenant" (Malachi 2), and finally reveals that the whole institution was designed to picture something else: "This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church" (Ephesians 5:32). Covenant, not contract, is the course's spine, and every session is tested against the difference between "what am I getting?" and "what have I promised?" Across six sessions it establishes marriage as God's covenant design (Genesis 2; Malachi 2; Matthew 19), trains the daily craft covenant runs on in words, conflict, and forgiveness (James 1; Ephesians 4; Matthew 18), walks the contested passage in full beginning at Ephesians 5:21 with the complementarian and egalitarian readings both given their strongest case, teaches intimacy and trust as God's unashamed design (Genesis 2:25; Song of Songs; 1 Corinthians 7; Hebrews 13), brings the one-flesh covenant to money, priorities, and praying together (Matthew 6; Proverbs 31; the neglected altar), and finishes with marriage as mission and legacy (Priscilla and Aquila; Deuteronomy 6; the wedding of the Lamb). Where faithful believers genuinely differ, it says so plainly and sends you back to the text and your church's leaders: the marriage-roles readings (Session 3, the fullest treatment), divorce and remarriage (Session 1), the genre of the Song of Songs (Session 4), and agreement-in-prayer (Session 5). The platform takes no side as a test of fellowship. This is discipleship content, not crisis counseling: a reader in crisis, and especially anyone experiencing abuse, is pointed to their pastor and local safety resources, and nothing here counsels enduring abuse. Singleness is honored on Scripture's own terms throughout, so engaged, preparing, and single learners are full participants. Follows Stewardship & Generosity in the Practical Discipleship track and hands forward to Parenting with Purpose.
  1. Session 1: Covenant, Not Contract: God's Design for Marriage
  2. Session 2: Words That Build: Communication, Conflict, and Forgiveness
  3. Session 3: The Mystery and the Debate: Ephesians 5 from Verse 21
  4. Session 4: Naked and Unashamed: Intimacy and Trust
  5. Session 5: One Estate, One Altar: Money, Priorities, and Praying Together
  6. Session 6: A Covenant on Mission: Legacy
Parenting with Purpose
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 whole calling: what a child is and what a parent is for, the rhythm of faith at home, grace instead of behavior management, discipline that disciples, every age and stage from infant to adult child, and entrusting them back to the God who loves them more. Written for every household shape: married parents, single parents, grandparents, foster and adoptive families, and blended homes.
  1. Session 1: A Heritage, Not a Report Card
  2. Session 2: The Deuteronomy 6 Rhythm
  3. Session 3: Grace in the House
  4. Session 4: Discipline That Disciples
  5. Session 5: Ages and Stages
  6. Session 6: Entrusted Back
Having Hard Conversations
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 both. This course trains saying hard things with grace and receiving them without defensiveness, because most of us need more help with the second than we think.
  1. Session 1: Faithful Wounds: Why Hard Conversations Are Love
  2. Session 2: Start with Your Own Heart: Logs, Specks, and Motives
  3. Session 3: Making Truth Hearable: Gentle Answers, Facts, and Safety
  4. Session 4: The Matthew 18 Road: When Someone Sins Against You
  5. Session 5: On the Receiving End: Letting Faithful Wounds Work
  6. Session 6: After the Words: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Peace
Knowing God's Will
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
"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 for your life is not hidden, it is revealed and waiting to be walked in (Deuteronomy 29:29). Six sessions cover what "God's will" means in Scripture, the renewed mind that can discern, wisdom and counsel as God's ordinary guidance, the Spirit's leading (with impressions, open doors, and fleeces handled honestly), the freedom and responsibility of actually deciding, and waiting, silence, and suffering inside God's will. Where faithful believers differ on individual guidance, both views are named with their passages and you are sent back to the text. Pairs with the 14-day Knowing God's Will reading plan as a daily on-ramp or follow-up.
  1. Session 1: Already Revealed
  2. Session 2: A Renewed Mind
  3. Session 3: Wisdom and Counsel
  4. Session 4: The Spirit's Leading
  5. Session 5: Free and Responsible
  6. Session 6: Walking in the Dark
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Depth

For committed students of the Word
Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible Faithfully
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 observation into sound interpretation, so you arrive at the meaning God actually intended rather than a meaning read into the text. Six sessions on context, genre, grammar and word studies, reading Scripture with Scripture, and moving faithfully from the text to your life, and to teaching others. The goal: discover the meaning, do not invent it.
  1. Session 1: What Is Hermeneutics? Why Interpretation Matters
  2. Session 2: Context Is King: Literary and Historical Setting
  3. Session 3: Reading by Genre: How Different Books Ask to Be Read
  4. Session 4: From Words to Meaning: Grammar, Word Studies, and Flow
  5. Session 5: The Whole Story: Interpreting Scripture with Scripture
  6. Session 6: From Text to Life: Sound Application, and Handing It On
New Testament Survey
8 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 roughly one lifetime, that announce the fulfillment of everything the Old Testament promised. Eight sessions moving by era and arc rather than book by book: the world Jesus entered, the fourfold witness to his life, the kingdom he announced, the cross and empty tomb, the birth and spread of the church, the letters that grew out of that mission, and the hope the canon closes on. Finish with a map of the New Testament, not a pile of books.
  1. Session 1: The Fullness of Time: The World the New Testament Entered
  2. Session 2: Four Witnesses, One Jesus: Why We Have Four Gospels
  3. Session 3: The Kingdom Announced: The Ministry and Teaching of Jesus
  4. Session 4: The Cross and the Empty Tomb: The Hinge of History
  5. Session 5: The Church Is Born: Acts and the Gospel's Unstoppable Advance
  6. Session 6: Letters to the Churches: Paul and the Gospel Worked Out
  7. Session 7: Faith Under Pressure: Hebrews and the General Letters
  8. Session 8: The King Returns: Revelation and the Hope of the Church
Old Testament Survey
8 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 across roughly a thousand years, telling one story from creation to a people back in the land, still waiting. Eight sessions moving by era and arc rather than book by book: creation and fall, Abraham and the patriarchs, exodus and Sinai, the land and the judges, David and the covenant of the king, the psalms and wisdom, the prophets and exile, and the return that leans hard toward Messiah. Two threads held the whole way: the covenants God makes and keeps, and Christ in the Old Testament by the Bible's own method. Finish with a map of the Old Testament, not a pile of books.
  1. Session 1: In the Beginning: Creation, Fall, and a Promise
  2. Session 2: I Will Bless You: Abraham and the Patriarchs
  3. Session 3: Redeemed to Belong: Exodus, Sinai, and the Tabernacle
  4. Session 4: Not One Word Failed: Conquest, Judges, and Grace in Dark Days
  5. Session 5: A House and a Throne: David and the Covenant of the King
  6. Session 6: The Covenant Prayed and Pondered: Psalms and Wisdom
  7. Session 7: Covenant on Trial: The Prophets, the Fall of the Kingdoms, and Exile
  8. Session 8: Rebuilt and Still Waiting: Return, Restoration, and the Lean Toward Messiah
The Story of Scripture
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 storyline from the good world God made, through the fall that broke it, along a rescue plan that runs through a family, a nation, and a line of kings, until it arrives at a person, Jesus, and opens out into a new creation, and your place in the story now. The on-ramp that makes every other part of the Bible make sense.
  1. Session 1: The World That Was Meant
  2. Session 2: A Promise to One Family
  3. Session 3: A Kingdom Rises and Falls
  4. Session 4: Exile and the Long Silence
  5. Session 5: The Story Arrives at a Person
  6. Session 6: The Story Isn’t Over
Apologetics: Defending Your Faith
6 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 exist, is the Bible reliable, did Jesus rise, why is there suffering. Six sessions, held with gentleness and respect. The goal is to win the person, not the argument.
  1. Session 1: Why Defend? The Call and Posture of Apologetics
  2. Session 2: Does God Exist? Pointers to the Creator
  3. Session 3: Is the Bible Reliable? Manuscripts, History, and Inerrancy
  4. Session 4: Did Jesus Rise? The Resurrection as the Hinge
  5. Session 5: If God Is Good, Why Suffering? The Problem of Evil
  6. Session 6: Answering Today's Objections & Living the Answer
What Others Believe
9 sessions Start Mentoring →
A charitable, clear-eyed tour of the world’s faiths and worldviews: Judaism, Islam, the movements that redefine the essentials (LDS & Jehovah’s Witnesses), Hinduism, Buddhism, secularism/atheism, and the "spiritual but not religious", each represented the way its own followers would recognize. Building on Rooted, this Tier-3 course studies every worldview on the same frame (authority, God, the human problem and solution, hope, practices, common ground, the real distinctive, and how to have the conversation), and ends with the capstone question: is Jesus really the only way? Held with humility and love. The final course of the Convictions & Conversations track.
  1. Session 1: How to Study Another Faith
  2. Session 2: Judaism
  3. Session 3: Islam
  4. Session 4: Groups That Redefine the Essentials (LDS & JW)
  5. Session 5: Hinduism
  6. Session 6: Buddhism
  7. Session 7: Secularism, Atheism & Naturalism
  8. Session 8: The "Nones" (Spiritual but Not Religious)
  9. Session 9: Capstone, Is Jesus Really the Only Way?
Rooted: Essentials, Liberty & Charity
4 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 (contextually-supported biblical truth), the three tiers of difference (essentials, convictions, other faiths), and the posture that holds it all together: in essentials unity, in convictions liberty, in all things charity. Frame course for the Convictions & Conversations track.
  1. Session 1: Our Standard
  2. Session 2: The Three Tiers
  3. Session 3: The Essentials (Tier 1)
  4. Session 4: Holding Convictions with Charity
The Christian Family Tree
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One family, many branches. A charitable tour of the Christian traditions: Catholic, Orthodox, and the whole Protestant family (Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, non-denominational), each represented the way its own faithful members would recognize. Building on Rooted’s three tiers, this course studies real Tier-2 differences among brothers and sisters who share the trunk: the Triune God, the crucified and risen Christ, salvation by grace. Learn the family history, the honest distinctives, and above all how to disagree like family. Part of the Convictions & Conversations track.
  1. Session 1: One Family, Many Branches
  2. Session 2: The Ancient Branches (Catholic & Orthodox)
  3. Session 3: The Reformation & Protestant Common Ground
  4. Session 4: The Protestant Family, Part One
  5. Session 5: The Protestant Family, Part Two
  6. Session 6: Disagreeing Like Family
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How to Mentor
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Training in the craft of walking with another believer: one ordinary Christian helping another follow Jesus through a season, usually with a course between them, always with Scripture doing the heavy lifting. Six sessions cover what mentoring is and is not (not counseling, not authority over anyone’s decisions), the mirror of character and doctrine, listening and good questions, walking through a course together, boundaries and knowing when to hand off to a pastor, and praying for your mentee. Completing this course opens the invitation to raise your hand as a mentor in your congregation; the pre and post self-assessment is a readiness mirror that maps what to grow next, and your org admins confirm the timing.
  1. Session 1: Walking Alongside: What Mentoring Is and Isn’t
  2. Session 2: The Mirror First: Character, Doctrine, and Readiness
  3. Session 3: The Ministry of Listening and Good Questions
  4. Session 4: The Text Between You: Walking Through a Course Together
  5. Session 5: Staying in Your Lane: Boundaries and Handing Off
  6. Session 6: Epaphras Work: Praying for Your Mentee and Finishing Well
Facilitating Small-Group Discussion
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Practical training for volunteer small-group leaders: adults leading adult groups and adults leading youth. Learn to facilitate rather than lecture: build trust and psychological safety, draw out quiet members without spotlighting them, redirect over-talkers gracefully, ask and adapt questions live, and lead teens with peer-safe care. Includes a dedicated, non-negotiable safeguarding session.
  1. Session 1: Why Facilitation Isn’t Teaching
  2. Session 2: Psychological Safety & Trust
  3. Session 3: Active Listening, Wait Time & OARS
  4. Session 4: Getting Everyone Talking / Managing Airtime
  5. Session 5: Asking & Adapting Questions Live
  6. Session 6: Leading Youth Groups
  7. Session 7: Safeguarding & Duty of Care
Your Group on MKDSCPLS: A Leader's How-To
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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 read, and how to raise the next leader out of the group you already have.
  1. Step 1: What makes you a leader here
  2. Step 2: Getting people in
  3. Step 3: Three ways one person walks with another
  4. Step 4: Your people, one screen at a time
  5. Step 5: Building a leadership team
Walking With the Hurting: Everyday Care in Crisis, Trauma & Grief
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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 ordinary church members to show up well for the hurting: presence over fixing, listening over advice, and compassion over the judgmental "Job’s friends" reflex. Where "Suffering & Lament" walks you through your own pain, this course equips you to care for others in theirs.
  1. Session 1: The Ministry of Presence
  2. Session 2: Learning to Listen & Making Room for Lament
  3. Session 3: What Not to Say
  4. Session 4: Practical Help & Mobilizing the Body
  5. Session 5: Knowing Your Limits (Boundaries, Confidentiality & Referral)
  6. Session 6: Gentle Spiritual Care & Caring for the Caregiver
The First Yes
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<p>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 faithfulness rather than offerings, and a chain by which anyone hears that runs through people who were sent. For anyone following Jesus, with or without a trip on the calendar.</p>
  1. Session 1: The Promise Was Always to the Nations
  2. Session 2: The Covenant Only God Could Keep
  3. Session 3: What God Actually Wants
  4. Session 4: To Hear Is to Obey
  5. Session 5: How Will They Hear
  6. Session 6: Next Door or the Other Side of the World
Mission Trip Preparation
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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.
  1. Session 1: Why Go?
  2. Session 2: Expect the Unexpected
  3. Session 3: Cross-Cultural Sensitivity
  4. Session 4: Team Dynamics
  5. Session 5: Spiritual Preparation
  6. Session 6: Ready to Serve
  7. Session 7: Sent Ones
Journey Home: Post-Trip Debrief
7 sessions Start Mentoring →
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 last day of the trip.
  1. Day 1: Initial Reflections
  2. Day 2: What Did I See?
  3. Day 3: The Hard Stuff
  4. Day 4: What God Taught Me
  5. Day 5: Crafting Your Story
  6. Day 6: Now What?
  7. Day 7: Sent from Here

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