Personal / Spiritual Growth
Training materials for personal and spiritual development
Character Development
Leadership and Credibility
Leadership and Credibility - Making the Tough Call: Your credibility as a leader comes from both your strong character and your competence. This lesson covers the common ingredients in the tough calls a leader has to make and gives ten helps in making a tough call.
View Course →Measuring Your Leadership Growth
Emphasis is on the leader's character. Seven qualities are defined and the opportunity is given for self-evaluation on each of these qualities.
View Course →Security or Sabotage
This course examines the problems that can occur when a leader has personal insecurity issues. It gives help on how to indentify insecurity and the lies that go with them. The lesson goes on to give Biblical principles on how to overcome these insecurities.
View Course →The Word of Our Lives
This two page Bible Study based on II Timothy 2:15 discuss six propositions concerning a leader's word. It is important that a Spiritual leader is a person of his word and knows how to live what he says and preaches.
View Course →Compassion Fatigue
Compassion Fatigue
This 3 part video series addresses the issue of Compassion Fatigue. Many caregivers, medical workers and ministry workers have experienced this form of burnout. This is particularly true in Teen Challenge ministry. This course defines Compassion Fatigue and then goes on to give help in recognizing, preventing and treating this condition. This is meant to be used as an introductory teaching.
View Course →Decision Making
Developing Decision-making Skills
There are choices to be made from the first day a person is born until he takes his dying breath. It is important to learn how to make good decisions. Decision-making is an art, but it is also a science, and as such it is a skill that can be developed. Because a person must make choices everyday that will affect him the rest of his life, a careful study of how decisions are made may assist people in becoming more skillful decision-makers.
View Course →Priorities and Decision Making
Priorities and Decision Making: Includes a quiz and self-evaluation on getting the most out of a day. The 80/20 principle is explained with lessons learned from this principle.
View Course →Your Decision Determines Your Destiny
The art of decision-making is examined in this lesson. Our decisions not only affect our own lives, but also the lives of those who follow us. Six phases of decision-making are discussed.
View Course →Emotional Maturity
Security or Sabotage
This course examines the problems that can occur when a leader has personal insecurity issues. It gives help on how to indentify insecurity and the lies that go with them. The lesson goes on to give Biblical principles on how to overcome these insecurities.
View Course →The life You Were Meant to live
Five biblical foundations for understanding and uncovering your life purpose are proposed. An exercise for writing a life purpose statement is included.
View Course →Today Matters
Leadership and Personal Growth: Personal growth is vital to your leadership journey. You will become what you are becoming right now. Without a plan for your personal growth, you will be reacting to life instead of living on purpose.
View Course →Ethics
Bible Ethics
Far too often we dwell on the things we feel are prohibited to us because we are Christians. But the motivating factor behind righteous living should be that Jesus said, Be holy because I am holy. This l58-page course by John and Sara Miles clarifies the reasons behind the rules which were made to help believers enjoy serving God and being holy as He is holy.
View Course →Christian Ethics
This course defines Christian Ethics and specks of the need to use the Bible as a basis for our ethics. The course go on to give practical ways to incorporate Christian ethics into our leadership.
View Course →Integrity
This basic course by Dr. Jerry Nance examines the principles of integrity. It first looks at the benefits of integrity. Next it speaks of how one can develop integrity. Lastly it explains how ones beliefs, actions and speech can be used in evaluating ones integrity.
View Course →Family and Ministry Balance
Building a Balanced Life and Ministry
This teaching speaks of the importance of properly balancing personal life and ministry. It then gives seven biblical principles that will support this balanced life.
View Course →Listening Skills
Listening
This introductory lesson speaks on what good listening accomplishes, the various skills involved in listening and roadblocks to good listening. It also addresses the very interesting problem of mitigating speech and how to avoid problems that it can produce. Lastly the concept of reverse mentoring is discussed.
View Course →Listening Skills
The following materials discuss different aspects of the development of listening skills.
View Course →Ministry Gifts
Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts
Steps to identifying and developing your spiritual gifts and the role they play in the body of Christ.
View Course →People Skills
Christ the Great Communicator
This lesson discusses how to improve your communication skills by imitating the Master. Matthew 13 is the basis to relate six lessons about communication.
View Course →Cultivating People Skills
What every leader should know about people is the main thrust of this lesson as well as the vital role relationships play in leadership.
View Course →Leadership and Relationships
Leadership and Relationships -They Make Me or Break Me: Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is built on relationships. As leaders, we cannot assume we are successful unless we master the art of developing healthy relationships.
View Course →Personal and Spiritual Disciplines
Accepting Personal Responsibility
This three-page teaching by Daryel Erickson discusses why it is important for a Christian to learn how to take personal responsibility for his life choices. The Apostle Paul tells us in I Corinthians 9 that we must all take responsibility for our own race. The requirements include self-discipline and growing from our mistakes.
View Course →How Leaders Pray
Observations on how leaders pray effectively in pivotal moments. The three levels of prayer are described in the military terms: logistical, tactical, and strategic.
View Course →The Leader's Inner Circle
The need for leaders to build a healthy network of relationships is the focus. A diagram for personal evaluation is also included. What to look for in a mentor, an accountability partner and a mentee, is covered, using Paul, Barnabas and Timothy as examples.
View Course →Spiritual Warfare
Characteristics of a Giant Killer
Handling your greatest leadership challenges through the description of 10 characteristics of a giant killer - taken from I Samuel 17.
View Course →Time Management
First Things First
This presentation, based on the bestselling book by Stephen R. Covey, addresses the issue of time management from the perspective of effectiveness rather than efficiency. It demonstrates how to find our personal compass and fine tune it to what is most important in our lives. It then gives tools on how to stay on track keeping first things first.
View Course →The Leader's Time: Tick Tock, Manage the Clock
One of the greatest needs in a leader's life is more time. Time management is a must for an effective leader. In this lesson advice is given about time.
View Course →Our Top Downloaded Resources
Today Matters
Leadership and Personal Growth: Personal growth is vital to your leadership journey. You will become...
Read More →Cultivating People Skills
What every leader should know about people is the main thrust of this lesson as well as the vital ro...
Read More →Christ the Great Communicator
This lesson discusses how to improve your communication skills by imitating the Master. Matthew 13 i...
Read More →Leadership and Relationships
Leadership and Relationships -They Make Me or Break Me: Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is buil...
Read More →Listening
This introductory lesson speaks on what good listening accomplishes, the various skills involved in...
Read More →Listening Skills
The following materials discuss different aspects of the development of listening skills.
Read More →The life You Were Meant to live
Five biblical foundations for understanding and uncovering your life purpose are proposed. An exerci...
Read More →How Leaders Pray
Observations on how leaders pray effectively in pivotal moments. The three levels of prayer are desc...
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