This six-session course with Ben Connelly equips everyday Christians to live as missionaries right where they are, not just overseas. Through practical teaching and follow-up exercises, it helps believers display and declare the gospel in ordinary, everyday life.

This 11-session course with Ben Connelly offers a practical primer for anyone exploring the idea of church planting, whether you're feeling called, curious, or considering joining a team. Drawing from his own church planting experience, Connelly answers key questions and provides tangible next steps to help you discern and prepare for this important ministry calling.

This 11-session course with Ben Connelly offers a practical primer for anyone exploring the idea of church planting, whether you're feeling called, curious, or considering joining a team. Drawing from his own church planting experience, Connelly answers key questions and provides tangible next steps to help you discern and prepare for this important ministry calling.

This four-session course with Bill Clem helps ministers move beyond burnout to long-term flourishing by exploring sustainable rhythms for the soul. Drawing from his own ministry experience and challenges, Clem offers practical guidance to help leaders not just survive but truly thrive in their calling for the long haul.

In this three-session digital course, Dhati and Angie Lewis challenge believers to view their homes not as private retreats but as powerful tools for gospel hospitality and discipleship. Drawing from their personal experience, they offer practical wisdom on using the home to disciple kids and others, showing how everyday spaces can become meaningful places for kingdom impact.

This five-session course with leadership coach Alan Briggs offers practical, actionable guidance for overwhelmed leaders seeking clarity and balance. Through 15 short teachings, reflection questions, and tangible assignments, leaders will gain wisdom on key issues like decision-making, delegation, rest, margin, and overcoming feelings of failure—equipping them to lead with confidence and intention today.

In The Equipping Group’s “Redeeming Politics” course, Kaitlyn Schiess helped redefine “politics” from today’s common perception. She helps us rightly see politics as a concept that was created by God, and that has become broken because of sin, but that can be hopeful because in Christ, God is reconciling all things to himself. Because of Jesus’ work, there can be restoration — in part now and more fully in eternity — even in the realm of politics! In light of that renewed view of politics, we can see politics through the lens of the story of God.

In Reading the Bible, Missing the Gospel, Ben Connelly exposes common ways Christians misunderstand Scripture by centering it on themselves rather than on God. He invites readers to rediscover the Bible through the lens of Jesus as the true hero, reshaping how we view forgiveness, blessing, the church, and more.

Gerry Breshears, Professor of Systematic Theology at Western Seminary, helps navigate the roles of women and men in the church biblically and challenges us to value everyone's voice as we serve and teach together.

In this free online workshop, seasoned missional leader Brad Watson helps us explore the realities of sharing the gospel in our cultural moment, focusing on today's deeper questions. We will see what sharing the gospel looks like, and what’s needed to help people in the process of coming to faith, in our increasingly post-secular societies.

Tomy Wilkerson, Tampa Director of Underground Network, leads the listener through the journey of discovering your unique design and mission God has prepared specifically for you.

Healthy plants make more healthy plants. Healthy platypus and giraffes make more healthy platypus and giraffes. Healthy humans make more humans. Healthy disciples make more disciples. Healthy leaders make more leaders. And healthy churches make more churches! No healthy entity is an end unto itself; God created good things, and designed them to multiply. That’s God’s heart for multiplication, from Genesis 1 and still today!

As we step into 2025, the dawn of a new year in our culture is an invitation to dream, plan, and set new goals. As a leader in the church and God's kingdom, I have found this cultural rhythm to be a good opportunity to prayerfully consider what God may desire to do in my life. Whether you embrace these things as a leader or really dislike the trend of new year's goal setting, a new year can still feel both exciting and daunting. 

My friend Matt has lamented before, that church leaders can skip the season of Advent and instead emphasize Christmas for the whole month of December. He claims that doing so diminishes the sweetness of Christmas! The joy of Jesus’s arrival, the peace and hope promised in the manger, the culmination of God’s love by sending a Redeemer and Messiah are only felt in their true power if contrasted against the silence, the waiting, the yearning, and even the hopelessness that’s historically defined the Advent season. 

If you walk into any Catholic church, you will see the anguished, bloody, broken body of Christ hanging from a cross for people to contemplate and grieve. Wander around any cathedral and you will discover provocative artwork hanging on the walls that depict the colorless, lifeless body of Jesus being peeled off the cross by the embrace of St. John and the women who had loved and been loved so deeply by Christ. Perhaps one of the unintended consequences of the historical schism between Catholics and Protestants has been a lost Christian practice of regularly gazing at the dying or dead body of Jesus. Much of American Christianity proclaims a Christ-less cross. While there are theological reasons for the empty cross, I wonder if our churches are ironically avoiding an invitation to behold the crucifixion of Jesus, distorting our capacity to see and love the suffering of the world.

What if every church followed God’s leading in sending, and were willing to pray and give away our finances, and even our best leaders?

What if we could do so, not in our church’s 20th or 200th year of existence, but in its second year?
And what if we could at least start down that path, not when we have 200 or 2000 people engaged, but when we have 20 people?

Ben Connelly answers these questions and more in this free, online video workshop.

For many Christians, it’s easier to display the good news of Jesus through our actions, than to declare it with our words. In fact, many modern evangelistic methods – from the cold-call knock on a door, to a forced conversation, to a specific pattern of verses or empirical truths – have led many Christians NOT to share the gospel. It’s even easy to make excuses: we don’t want to misrepresent God; we’re scared of being asked a question we can’t answer; we don’t want to offend people – so we stay silent. 

What does Jesus say about justice - and how does it relate to God’s mission?
How can people still work for change after seeing the worst of humanity and experiencing demoralizing setbacks?
How can God’s people “undertake acts of liberation and bear witness to the good news of their savior”?

Jemar Tisby answers these questions and more in this free, online video workshop.

The spirit of justice is the inner force that moves us to demand dignity and respect for ourselves and others. It is the cry of our souls for the world to be a fair and kind place. It is the power that inspires people to speak up when others remain silent. To move when others stand still. To put themselves on the line when others choose to remain comfortable.

Eight flights and 12 lodgings across 10 cities in five states (of only seven!). More than 37 trainings and meetings, with nearly 750 people. Deep, rich, intentional time with 48+ churches' leaders, over the course of 38 days. That’s the “quantitative” side of our family’s summer, several weeks of which was spent in Australia (in slang, “Oz”). But the “qualitative” side is what I want to share in this Equipping Group summer recap.