Digital Courses
Welcome to our growing collection of go-at-your-pace digital courses!
Our goal is to provide quality training on an array of topics, each from a seasoned practitioner, to help you grow in needed areas of faith, leadership, mission, and ministry. Each course has been crafted and curated to serve you as well as possible: each session involves a brief training video, as well as follow-up work to make the content personal and tangible.
You can preview the first session of each course below, then click through to purchase the whole course. We hope you’ll pursue these courses in the context of close community, and of course our “pay-what-you-can” policy applies to each digital course. (Also, if you have an idea for a digital course topic that would serve you well, let us know here.)
What help do you need for your day-to-day leadership?
Leadership can be overwhelming. There are so many decisions to make, so many needs to meet, so many things to do, so many people to serve… We can often feel like we’re not doing enough, or not doing the right thing. And after too many of these decisions, leaders can feel like we’re failing.
Sometimes we simply need a little help! In this five-session course, Alan Briggs (founder, Stay Forth Designs, Colorado Springs) shares 15 short, practical, and immediately-implementable teachings… (MORE)
So you want to plant a church?
To some, church planting can seem like the varsity, “A-Team” of Christian ministry. For others, the term feels so daunting you’d never consider it. Perhaps you feel a stirring from God, or have been asked to join a planting team. Or perhaps you just want to learn a little more about the concept of planting.
Over the 11 sessions, Ben Connelly (Founder of The Equipping Group) helps us consider some of the key starting points for considering planting a church… (MORE)
What if we used our most prized possession for the glory of God?
Dhati & Angie Lewis (Blueprint Church, Atlanta) have five kids and have had people live with them for most of their marriage. They have seen the high points and low points of biblical hospitality. And they want to challenge you to reframe your view of “home,” into a counter-cultural tool the sake of the kingdom.
In this three-session Digital Course the Lewises share from their heard-earned wisdom and experience, how our homes can be a weapon for hospitality in general, for discipling kids, and for discipling others… (MORE)
How can ministers’ souls matter more than our roles?
Many ministers — whether paid staff or volunteer leaders, churches or organizations — describe themselves as “tired,” “weary,” and “worn-out.” This “red-lining” is not unique to any season: every minister must consider how he or she will make it in ministry for the long haul. Every minister must consider how they won’t just survive in ministry, but how they can thrive.
In this four-session course, Bill Clem (Director of Pastoral Flourishing, Western Seminary) helps us consider four aspects of thriving in ministry… (MORE)
Did you know that if you’re a Christian, you are a missionary?
For many followers of Jesus, “missions” means taking a trip overseas or financial supporting someone who has. But part of every Christians’s identity and calling in Christ means that we all get to display and declare the good news of Jesus, in everyday ways, wherever we live.
Over six sessions, Ben Connelly (Founder of the Equipping Group) asks and answers questions to help us live on God’s mission, in everyday life… (MORE)
Do you doubt the claim that Jesus Christ rose from the dead? Do you know anyone who is skeptical about this claim?
In this free, single-session Digital Course, pastor and author Jonathan Dodson (City Life Church, Austin TX) invites us to be intellectually honest about the claims of the Gospels. He challenges believers to question their faith and skeptics to doubt their doubts in order to more deeply appreciate the resurrection.
Your church has a role to play, in equipping and sending for God’s mission
What if every local church embraced the example of the first-century Church at Antioch? What if we all followed God’s leading in sending, prayed and give away our finances, and even our best leaders? What if we did so, not in our church’s 20th or 200th year of existence, but in its second? What if we started down that path, not when we have 200 or 2000 people, but when we have 20?
In four ebooks, Ben Connelly shares from years of experience — of being sent to plant churches, training planter teams and sending missionaries from his local church, and working with dozens of churches to help them step into a healthy sending process… (MORE)
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