Discipleship Courses & Bible Studies
Biblically grounded discipleship courses and Bible studies for churches and ministries — from new-believer foundations to leader training. Browse the full MKDSCPLS course catalog.
Discipleship Journeys
Our courses come as guided journeys — several courses that build on each other, in order. Follow a journey from the start, or take any course on its own.
The First Yes
Why anyone goes, how to prepare a team, and how to come home well.
View the 3-course journey →Foundations
The essentials of following Jesus, from the gospel to a disciple-making life.
View the 3-course journey →Called to Lead
Formed in character, competency, and calling to lead after the pattern of Jesus.
View the 3-course journey →Grace & Truth
Receive the grace God gives you, then learn to carry both mercy and truth toward the people around you.
View the 2-course journey →Leader Path
From wanting to lead a small group to being ready to shadow one, in three courses.
View the 4-course journey →Convictions & Conversations
Ground your convictions, understand the Christian family, and engage other beliefs with grace.
View the 3-course journey →Theological Foundations
The building blocks, the story of Scripture, how to read it well, and how to defend the faith.
- 1The Story of Scripture
- 2Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible Faithfully
- 3Old Testament Survey
- 4New Testament Survey
- 5Apologetics: Defending Your Faith
Worldview & Culture
Learn to think like a Christian in every area of life, and engage the culture with confidence and love.
- 1Everyday Worldview: Thinking Like a Christian in Every Area of Life
- 2Working for an Audience of One
- 3Stewardship & Generosity
- 4Mercy & Justice
- 5Faith, Media & Culture
- 6Faith in the Public Square
Beginner
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
Getting Started on MKDSCPLS
Fifteen minutes, one session. Write a note, answer a question, and choose where you are going next. The only thing here that is about the…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Leading a Group on MKDSCPLS
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…
Living It Out
Faith on the ground: handling money as a steward, standing firm against temptation, sharing your story, and beginning to disciple others.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Intermediate
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…
Facilitating Small-Group Discussion
Practical training for volunteer small-group leaders — adults leading adult groups and adults leading youth. Learn to facilitate rather…
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…
Having Hard Conversations
Churches struggle to have hard conversations, and the failure runs both ways: silence sold as niceness, and harshness sold as boldness.…
How to Mentor
Training in the craft of walking with another believer: one ordinary Christian helping another follow Jesus through a season, usually with…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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.…
Smashing Idols
Name the idols beneath your habits and learn to smash them the only way that works, by surrender and re-worship rather than willpower. This…
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…
Stewardship & Generosity
Money is discipleship territory Jesus claimed constantly, and a platform that trains prayer, Bible study, and evangelism but stays polite…
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…
The Christian Family Tree
One family, many branches. A charitable tour of the Christian traditions — Catholic, Orthodox, and the whole Protestant family (Lutheran,…
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…
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.…
Understanding Grace
Grace is the most foundational concept in Christianity, and the most misunderstood. Most believers can define grace but cannot live in it.…
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…
What Others Believe
A charitable, clear-eyed tour of the world’s faiths and worldviews — Judaism, Islam, the movements that redefine the essentials (LDS &…
Advanced
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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