Ministry is changing fast. Leaders need ongoing formation that fits real life. The Faith+Lead Monthly Roundup curates our latest learning opportunities—courses, conversations, and communities—to support your next faithful step.
Featured On-Demand Courses
FREE "Crash Courses” A Framework for Understanding the Old and New Testament
The two courses, A Framework for Understanding the Old Testament and A Framework for Understanding the New Testament, are a quick overview of their structure and main themes, intended as context for further study. You’ll learn to recognize the main categories of each testament’s books, explore maps and timelines, and reflect on key passages. Discover the “what” of the Old and New Testament.
Have you been called to step into a leadership role in your church or ministry, but feel underprepared when it comes to biblical knowledge? Genesis to Revelation is tailor-made for emerging leaders who need a solid foundation in Scripture to serve effectively. This comprehensive 12-module journey is designed to quickly introduce you to the Bible's content, structure, and interpretation, while going deeper than the mini-courses. Whether you’re leading Bible studies, delivering sermons, or providing spiritual guidance, this course will equip you with the confidence and insight you need to handle God's Word responsibly and inspirationally.
Gain a practical, theological overview of scripture while deepening your discipleship and ministry skills with Faith+Lead’s Certificate in Bible Foundations. Take five courses centered around Biblical knowledge and interpretation asynchronously. Complete with a final reflection project integrating your learning into your environment, this certificate is best for those who are ready to dig deep.
Feeling called to start a new Christian community? Over the course of this year-long incubator, you'll learn alongside a community of peers through monthly online gatherings, guided reflection, practical ministry experiments, peer learning, and two online workshops. Through Faith+Lead Academy courses, two workshops and live coaching calls, you'll develop the practices of deep listening, discernment, trust-building, resilience, and missional imagination that prepare you to cultivate new Christian communities. You'll learn to recognize where God is already at work, faithfully discern next steps, how to share the gospel of Jesus with neighbors, and launch a new Christian community rooted in your unique context. Apply today!
The School for Lay Ministry is here to help you listen to the Holy Spirit, grow as a leader, and serve with faith in today’s world. Whether you’re just beginning to explore your calling or are well along the path, we’d love to journey with you. Past students talk about how life-giving it is to be surrounded by others who “get it”—people walking similar paths, cheering you on, and sharing ideas. One participant said he left feeling, “Connected and grateful,” while another said, “Listening to all these laypeople talk about what they're doing… it's really inspiring.” Join the community today!
Download a free Enter the Bible Leader Guide for the Gospel of Matthew. This 9-page digital resource offers passages with reliable commentary, alongside insights, discussion questions, and prayers designed to help you lead a four-week Bible study on Matthew. The leader guide is a companion resource to "The Bible in a Year from Luther Seminary," a weekly podcast that is now working its way through the New Testament. Check out these free resources today!
Season 7 of the Pivot Podcast just wrapped. Hosts Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm spent the season sitting down with people finding fresh footing in old practices: a couple who started an abbey in Ohio, a café run out of a church sanctuary in London, a husband-and-wife pair leading a Pittsburgh congregation through decades of becoming cross-cultural. In the finale, Dwight and Alicia pull the threads together: what it takes to make an old tradition viable again, and what that asks of the people leading it.
Sermon Brainwave, Working Preacher's longest running podcast, broke into the 1,100s this month—a streak of weekly podcasts on the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) texts that extends back to May 2008. One of the founding co-hosts, Karoline Lewis, has appeared on every single episode! And if you wonder whether anything new can be said after 1,100 episodes, SB1101 is taking on a brand-new addition to the RCL Feast Days: The Feast of Creation, which occurred on Sept. 6, 2026, for the first time. Listen to that special episode, or any past or upcoming episode, at workingpreacher.org/brainwave.
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