Based on the best-selling Ten Basic Steps Toward Christian Maturity, the foundational discipleship material used by Campus Crusade for Christ for more than four decades. Use each book as a quarterly topical study or the series as a 52-lesson discipleship curriculum. Lessons contain guided discussion and questions, games for verse memorization, reproducible sheets for in-class or follow-up activities, application activities, and weekly assignment to build discipleship principles into students' lives. No student workbook needed! Introduces children to the thrill of walking with Jesus day by day. Includes lessons on how Jesus can help them overcome problems and how they can study the Bible, pray effectively, and win spiritual battles through God's Spirit.

Finally, a proven study series that offers a simple way to understand the basics of the Christian faith. The series introduces Jesus Christ and explains how to live the Christian walk. Each step contains six to seven lessons, plus a review section.These studies have been used effectively by churches, individuals, and home Bible study groups worldwide, providing a solid foundation for Christian growth. A great resource for discipling.

On May 11, 2009 I received a Barna Update e mail stating, "A new study from the Barna Group identifies an underlying reason why there is little progress in helping people develop spiritually: many churchgoers and clergy struggle to articulate a basic understanding of spiritual maturity. People aspire to be spiritually mature, but they don't know what it means." This book specifically defines five levels of spiritual growth and maturity. I have never seen a book about spiritual growth that described what spiritual growth looks like. That is why we have the problem studied by Barna. How can people tell whether they are making any progress? How much further do they have to go to reach full maturity? I answer those questions. In this book I teach people to grow from having enough faith to believe that Jesus died for them, to having enough faith they believe they would live for him. Readers will be challenged to be serious about their pilgrimage of faith which I call a Christian adventure. They will be encouraged to practice holiness and serving others. The theme in this book is that "getting saved" which is level one in my book, is only the beginning for Christians. We need to move on to letting Jesus live in us through a life of service and holiness. Rather than a "How To" book this is a "What's Next" book.

Phillip Carson, Indiana born and raised, is faced with the decision of moving to California in early adolescence for the sake of his mother's health. He follows his parents to the Los Angeles area, where the adventure of his life begins. There he meets Susan Giles, a light in his life during the more innocent time of high school. They become an item, and she returns to his life post-college when he is dealing with three adversaries and his own internal struggles. During the eleventh grade, Phillip also meets retired fireman William Jones. William became a positive influence in other people's lives after suffering a huge loss and trying to make the right decisions going forward. He commits his retirement years to reaching out to inner-city juveniles and later becomes a good friend to Phillip. Phillip learns from William and must later grow in his own faith to complete the challenges set before him. This is a story of the shadows of strife being overcome, and virtue left standing.

High School Bible Curriculum Teacher's Manual

Take your First Step to adventure with this introduction on Christian faith and how it becomes a "my gospel" or your personal experience with God. This companion tool and introduction from Roy L. Miller's book My Gospel: The Adventure of Partnering with God to See His Kingdom Come, helps you as a believer explain your Christian faith to non-believers and can be used as a guide for answering the questions many people have on faith. Each believer has his or hers own story to tell, my gospel, of how Jesus Christ has impacted their life and it can be used a light unto the world.

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” — 1 John 2:15 Those who struggle with habitual sin are keenly aware of the despair and fatigue that comes from trying harder and harder to control the desire to do what is wrong in the eyes of God. For this person, there be times of limited success in overcoming sin, but eventually he/she falls back again into unhealthy patterns. In "The Expulsive Power of a New Affection", Thomas Chalmers argues that no matter how hard we may try, we’ll never overcome habitual sin in our lives unless we switch our affections from the world to Jesus Christ. Thankfully Christ loved us first and is more than willing to set us free if we’d only realize the true Gospel power that we can all have in our lives today.