Discipleship Toolbox
Filtering By Tag: How Christians Grow and Change
Documents
Seven A's of Confession
Confession and genuine reconciliation based on sincere repentance and seeking forgiveness by addressing all involved, avoiding excuses, admitting specifics, acknowledging hurt, accepting consequences.
Documents
The Process of Biblical Change - Y Chart Filled in
Helps people to understand how people grow and change and the relationship between the heart and choices. This one has the blanks filled in.
Documents
The Process of Biblical Change - Y Chart with blanks
To give to a counselee or discipleship partner or mentee to help them understand the process of change and the relationship between the heart and worship and thinking and choices.
Documents
Stabilizing Truths for a Noisy Soul with Stop/Think Cards
10 stabilizing truths - God’s attributes and promises to remember when you are anxious, depressed, angry, or tempted or facing any other situation. Includes Stop/Think card instructions.
Articles
How Does Sanctification Work
Powlison describes the different means of grace that God uses to sanctify people. Shows the variety of means we should pursue using to help each other to grow and change.
Podcasts
Heart and Habits
Podcast discussing book heart and habits and the principle of how God uses habits to shape our hearts and our worship. Helpful for discipleship and counseling and growth and change.
Documents
Gospel Treason Study Guide
To use with the book Gospel Treason by Brad Bigney. Study guide, questions to accompany each chapter of the book uncovering idols of the heart and how we can grow and change through renewed worship.
Articles
Counseling and Our Union With Christ
Tiffe describes how union with Christ is a key principle to teach when helping anyone in a counseling or discipleship setting. Uses Romans 6 to teach this important truth.
Documents
Filtering My Thoughts
Applies Philippians 4:8-9 to your thought life. Great tool to use with anyone struggling with their thinking, anxiety, anger, depression, lust, bitterness, or any other sin struggle.
Books
God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles
Explores 16 different attributes of God, categorized under love, essence, wisdom, and power, providing tools for reflection and correcting wrong views. Discipleship, trusting God, depression, anxiety
Books
A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of God
This book teaches the necessity of preaching the gospel to yourself daily as the means to walking by faith as you face any battle against sin, anxiety, depression, or any other issue. Discipleship
Classes
Quieting a Noisy Soul
This is a 24 week class that is the in-depth version of “God is More Than Enough”. Wonderful resource to use with a counselee or in a class. Helpful for depression, anxiety and much more.
Books
A Small Book for the Anxious Heart: Meditations on Fear, Worry and Trust
Don't put a Band-Aid on your fear and anxiety; rather, learn to bring your fear to Jesus, relying on his Word.
Web Pages
Growing by Changing Our Desires
Sermon on James 4:1-9 and how our desires change through Christ so that we grow to be like Christ.
Books
Help! I Want to Change
Helpful short booklet on how people grow and change through Biblical sanctification. Show that the gospel is the key to being empowered to live a life that pleases God.
Books
Heart & Habits: How We Change for Good
Helps people establish good habits, teaching what the Bible says about your habits and how God uses your habits to help you change for good; discipleship, the heart, habits, how people grow and change
Books
How People Change
Jesus' work on the cross targets our hearts---our core desires and motivations---and when our hearts change, our behavior changes - helpful description of how change and growth works.
Books
The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience
provides a comprehensive view of how the heart works and how Christ redeems it; discipleship, heart, how people grow and change
Books
Changed Into His Image
Very thorough book on the process of putting off sin, being renewed in our minds and putting on the new life in Christ. Discipleship, the heart, how people grow and change. Has a workbook you can use
Books
Gospel Treason: Betraying the Gospel with Hidden Idols
Shows us how the idols we might not even recognize can still have devastating effects in our lives, effectively leading us to commit gospel treason. Discipleship, shepherding the heart, how to grow
Classes
Foundations of Discipleship
In this self-paced video class, you will learn the basics of discipleship—how to walk alongside and disciple others, helping them to know and obey God’s Word and to mature in following Christ!
Books
Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace
A shorter, very helpful tool that explains 8 strategies for using the means of grace that God has given us to fight lust; has an accompanying study guide; purity, marriage, singleness, pornography
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