Growing as a Christian
Following Jesus and Living Out Your Faith Every Day
Becoming a Christian is the beginning of a lifelong journey.
As we follow Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit continues working within us—shaping our character, strengthening our faith, teaching us to love others, and helping us live according to God’s Word.
Growing as a Christian brings together biblical teaching and practical resources for everyday discipleship. These lessons are designed to help you develop a deeper relationship with God, face life’s challenges with faith, build healthy relationships, serve others, and become more like Jesus Christ.
Growing as a Christian is a lifelong journey of following Jesus, trusting God, and becoming more like Christ every day.
Christian Living
Apply Biblical Truth to Everyday Life
Christian faith is meant to shape every part of our lives.
Christian Living offers biblical guidance for our choices, attitudes, relationships, responsibilities, work, families, finances, and everyday interactions with others.
These resources explore areas such as:
Christian Character
Spiritual Disciplines
Living as a Disciple
Faith During Difficult Seasons
Living Out Our Faith in Relationships
Marriage and Family
Friendship and Community
Communication
Conflict, Forgiveness, and Peace
Work and Vocation
Christian Stewardship and Finances
Living in a Changing Culture
Serving and Influencing Others
These lessons connect the truth of Scripture with the situations, decisions, and relationships we experience each day.
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Prayer and Spiritual Growth
Develop a Deeper Relationship with God
Prayer is one of the most important ways we grow in our relationship with God.
Prayer and Spiritual Growth provides resources to help you understand prayer, develop regular spiritual habits, listen for God’s guidance, and trust Him through every season of life.
Explore topics such as:
What Is Prayer?
Why Do We Pray?
The Lord’s Prayer
Praying Through Scripture
Praise and Thanksgiving
Confession and Repentance
Listening for God’s Voice
Waiting on God
Trusting God’s Timing
When Prayers Seem Unanswered
Praying for Your Family
Praying for the Sick and Grieving
Praying for Your Church and Pastor
Prayer Partners
Prayer Journaling
Fasting
Prayer Walking
Prayer Shawl Ministry
These resources can help you move beyond simply knowing about prayer and begin developing a faithful, continuing conversation with God.
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Biblical Healing, Freedom, and Restoration
Find Hope and Healing Through Jesus Christ
Many people carry wounds, regrets, fears, unhealthy habits, painful memories, and struggles that affect their relationships with God, themselves, and others.
Biblical Healing, Freedom, and Restoration provides Christ-centered teaching for people seeking healing, spiritual growth, freedom from destructive patterns, and hope for a restored life.
This section includes resources related to:
Understanding Biblical Healing
Christian Emotional Healing
Life’s Hurts and Challenges
Breaking Unhealthy Patterns
Overcoming Strongholds
Addiction and Bondage
Restoration
Identity in Christ
Helping Others Heal
Freedom in Christ
Biblical Recovery
These resources do not promise that every struggle will disappear immediately. They offer biblical truth, encouragement, practical guidance, and the hope that God continues working in our lives through His grace.
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Christian Discipleship
Learn What It Means to Follow Jesus
A disciple is someone who learns from Jesus, follows His example, and participates in His mission.
Christian Discipleship resources help believers understand what it means to follow Jesus faithfully in worship, prayer, study, service, generosity, Christian community, and everyday life.
Explore topics such as:
Growing as a Disciple
Following Jesus Daily
Christian Discipleship
Discipleship in the UMC
The Means of Grace
The Priesthood of All Believers
Being Salt and Light
Let Your Light Shine
Love Boldly
Serve Joyfully
Using Your Spiritual Gifts
Serving Others
Sharing Your Faith
Mission and Outreach
These lessons encourage believers not only to learn about Jesus but also to live as His faithful disciples in the church, community, and world.
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Faith for Every Season of Life
Christian growth does not happen only during easy seasons.
God continues shaping us through times of joy, uncertainty, change, grief, disappointment, illness, caregiving, retirement, conflict, and loss.
Throughout Growing as a Christian, you will find resources to help you:
Trust God during difficult seasons
Find peace when life feels uncertain
Respond to disappointment with faith
Grow through grief and loss
Care for others with compassion
Strengthen marriages and families
Build healthier relationships
Make wise Christian decisions
Recognize and use your spiritual gifts
Serve God throughout every season of life
Wherever you are in your journey, you are not beyond the reach of God’s grace or finished with the work He wants to do in your life.
Continue Growing
Spiritual growth usually happens one step at a time.
We grow as we read Scripture, pray, worship, receive God’s grace, share life with other Christians, serve others, and respond faithfully to what God is teaching us.
You do not need to explore every topic at once. Begin with the question, challenge, or area of growth that is most important in your life today.
Then continue learning as God leads you.
Before exploring practical Christian living, you may also want to visit Foundations to learn the essential beliefs of Christianity or The Big Story to discover how God’s plan unfolds throughout Scripture.
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
2 Peter 3:18 (NASB 1995)
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