Christian Leaders Institute

Christian Growth Courses

Christian Growth Courses are practical Christian formation courses designed to help believers grow in wisdom, emotional maturity, healthy relationships, spiritual steadiness, and Christ-centered living in everyday life.

These are public-facing courses for Christian Leaders and the people they serve. They can strengthen a leader’s personal formation and also be shared in churches, Soul Centers, small groups, mentoring relationships, coaching conversations, ministry settings, and community outreach.

These courses focus on the everyday places where faith is tested, formed, and expressed—including thought life, gratitude, marriage, anger, relationships, aging, confidence, spiritual growth, personal calling, and practical ministry service.

They are designed for Christians who want more than information. They want formation. They want to think clearly in a confusing world, respond to pressure with grace, grow in spiritual maturity, build healthier relationships, and live as whole embodied souls before God.

Personal Formation

  • Thought life and emotional maturity
  • Confidence and identity in Christ
  • Gratitude and spiritual steadiness
  • Wisdom under pressure

Relationships & Calling

  • Marriage and relational health
  • Boundaries and communication
  • Christian calling and purpose
  • Serving others with peace and clarity

Biblical Worldview

  • Creation, Fall, and Redemption
  • Christian walk and spiritual destiny
  • Practical ministry application
  • Whole-life discipleship
Each course connects Scripture, real-life struggles, practical wisdom, and ministry application. Christian Growth Courses are both a pathway for personal Christian formation and a ministry tool for helping others grow through encouragement, discipleship, coaching, mentoring, and ministry care with greater clarity, maturity, and peace.

Introduction to Spiritual Growth helps students understand spiritual growth through the biblical story of Creation, Fall, Redemption, Calling, Christian Walk, and Spiritual Destiny. Students learn how whole-person restoration in Jesus Christ shapes faith, relationships, purpose, spiritual practices, and lifelong discipleship.

Christian Gratitude Growth helps students learn to notice God’s grace, receive their lives before God, and practice gratitude as part of daily spiritual growth. Through biblical gratitude discernment, students develop a renewed perspective shaped by truth, humility, forgiveness, hope, and God’s ongoing work in every season of life.

Resilient Scriptural Self-Conversation helps Christians renew their inner thought life through biblical truth, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and practical tools for lasting spiritual growth. Students learn to replace fear, shame, anxiety, and destructive thinking with Christ-centered hope, wise self-conversation, and faithful daily habits.
People Skills Confidence helps Christians grow in relational confidence through Christ-centered communication, healthy boundaries, wise listening, and everyday people skills rooted in grace and truth. Students learn practical habits for building stronger friendships, navigating conflict, and loving others with greater courage, humility, and Christlike presence.

Being Confident Around Men: Inspired by Biblical Women helps Christian women grow in biblical confidence, discernment, feminine strength, and Christ-centered relational wisdom through the example of faithful women in Scripture. Students learn healthy boundaries, embodied holiness, emotional steadiness, and peaceful confidence in mixed-gender relationships, ministry, and everyday life.

Becoming Confident Around Women as an Organic Man helps men grow in Christ-centered confidence, healthy boundaries, and honorable relationships with women through biblical wisdom and practical formation. Students learn to develop steadiness, integrity, relational clarity, and peaceful masculine presence without performance, domination, or approval-seeking.

Anger Reset helps believers transform anger into opportunities for spiritual growth, peacemaking, and Christ-centered ministry through biblical teaching and practical application. Students learn the RESET framework and develop Spirit-led habits for self-control, forgiveness, relational healing, and grace-filled communication.

Navigating Conflict in Christ equips believers to respond to conflict with humility, wisdom, grace, and Christ-centered peace rather than flesh-driven reactions. Using the Peacefire framework, students learn practical biblical principles for confession, forgiveness, healthy boundaries, reconciliation, and faithful relationships in everyday life.

Being a Confident Christian Single Mother equips women to strengthen their faith, lead their children with wisdom, build healthy relationships, and move forward with confidence, hope, and God's grace. Through biblical encouragement and practical guidance, students learn to navigate the challenges of single motherhood with courage, healthy boundaries, and Christ-centered purpose.

Christian Marriage Growth helps students understand marriage as a lifelong covenant of spiritual, emotional, and physical union rooted in God’s design for husband and wife. Students explore biblical principles for communication, forgiveness, intimacy, family life, shared calling, and faithful covenant love through every season of marriage.

Divorce Recovery helps adults navigate separation, divorce, and post-divorce rebuilding through biblical truth, practical wisdom, and Christ-centered hope. Students learn healthy boundaries, grief recovery, identity in Christ, forgiveness, and faithful next steps for rebuilding life with grace, stability, and purpose.

Get empowered for more effective ministry to parents. Many parents are seeking help to raise confident children. Professor Steve Elzinga presents this parenting skill course to help you if you are involved with children or if you minister to parents. 

Aging with Honor: A Christian Guide for Parents and Adult Children equips families and ministry leaders to navigate aging, caregiving, boundaries, and later-life transitions with Christian wisdom, dignity, and peace. Students learn how to approach family communication, planning, legacy, and end-of-life realities with practical stewardship, healthy relationships, and Christ-centered hope.

Soulful Sleeping: This ministry sciences study will help you sleep better and give you a tool to minister to others for better slumber

Sexual intimacy is a God-given gift connected to marriage and procreation. This course discusses many vital aspects of sexuality within a Christian Worldview approach, in order to equip Christians and ministers to grow in their personal lives and in their ministry impact. 

SoulConnect is an intricate yet approachable program designed to guide you through Twelve Steps that deepen your relationship with God, strengthen your faith, and enable you to share the transformative power of the Gospel with others. Rooted in Biblical truths, each step is designed to address a facet of spiritual growth, from seeking God's face to sharing your faith journey with the world. This course is designed for one's personal enrichment and/or for ministers looking to use this material to lead a bible study program on the SoulConnect content.