Revive. Renew. Remain.

 The Word, The Water, and The Way is an eight-week journey designed to awaken faith, deepen discipleship, and help believers hear God's voice, embrace His transforming work, and walk confidently in the way of Christ. Through rich biblical teaching, personal reflection, and practical application, this study invites participants to move from spiritual routine to spiritual renewal.  Based on 2 Peter 3

What Believers Will Gain

• Renewed Spiritual Urgency
  Break free from distraction and spiritual drift by reconnecting with God's calling and purpose for your life.  

• A Deeper Understanding of Scripture
  Discover the powerful biblical pattern of the Word, the Water, and the Way woven throughout creation, redemption, and discipleship.  

• Practical Steps for Daily Discipleship
  Learn how to hear God's voice, embrace transformation, walk faithfully with Christ, and connect with the Holy Spirit in everyday life.  

• Meaningful Reflection and Growth
  Engage with thought-provoking teaching, devotional readings, and application questions designed to move faith from knowledge to action.

 The Truth, The Turn, and The Test is an eight-week study through the Sermon on the Mount helping believers move from knowing the teachings of Jesus to living them. Through biblical teaching, personal reflection, and practical application, participants learn how Christ forms the heart of a disciple: one who embraces truth, responds with surrender, and remains faithful when they are tested.  Based on Matthew Chapters 5-7

What Believers Will Gain

•  A Deeper Understanding of Jesus’ Teaching
  Explore the Sermon on the Mount as a practical blueprint for kingdom living, discipleship, and spiritual maturity.  

• Heart-Level Transformation
  Move beyond outward behavior to examine the deeper issues of the heart, including pride, anger, anxiety, integrity, forgiveness, and trust.  

• Practical Tools for Everyday Discipleship
  Learn how to cultivate hidden spiritual practices, develop a resilient faith, and build your life on the unshakable foundation of Christ's words.  

• A Faith That Endures the Test
  Discover how obedience, trust, and wholehearted devotion prepare believers to stand firm when life's challenges and storms inevitably come.

 The Point, The Path, and The Promise is an eight-week study through the parables of Jesus that helps believers hear His truth, follow His way, and experience His promises. Through biblical teaching, personal reflection, and practical application, participants learn how Christ uses ordinary stories to produce extraordinary transformation in everyday life.  Based on Gospel Parables

What Believers Will Gain

• A Practical Framework for Spiritual Growth
  Learn to identify the point of each Parable and trust the promise within Jesus' teachings in their daily walk.  

• Life-Changing Lessons from the Parables of Jesus
  Discover how Jesus used everyday stories to reveal the condition of the heart, expose barriers to discipleship, and call believers to action.  

• Greater Freedom and Spiritual Maturity
  Explore biblical themes of forgiveness, contentment, stewardship, persistence in prayer, and eternal priorities that lead to a deeper relationship with God.  

• A Faith That Moves from Understanding to Obedience
  Learn how to respond to God's truth with practical steps transforming beliefs into habits, character, and lasting spiritual fruit

 His Glory, His Goodness, His Grace is an eight-week journey into the heart of Christ through some of the most powerful encounters recorded in Scripture. From the wilderness to the temple, from a friend's death to the thief on a cross, participants discover a Savior whose glory inspires worship, whose goodness restores dignity, and whose grace redeems the undeserving. This study invites believers to move beyond information into intimacy with the One who knows them completely and loves them fully. Based in the Gospels

What Believers Will Gain

• A Deeper Relationship with Jesus
  Move beyond studying Christ's teachings to encountering Christ Himself through some of the most personal and revealing moments of His earthly ministry.
   
• A Clearer Vision of Christ's Character
  Discover how Jesus reveals His glory in faithfulness, His goodness in compassion, and His grace in redemption through real-life encounters with ordinary people.
   
• Confidence in Being Fully Known and Fully Loved
  Learn that Jesus knows your story, your failures, your fears, and your struggles, and loves you completely anyway.
   
• A Stronger Foundation for Lifelong Discipleship
  Develop a faith rooted not merely in information or religious activity, but in intimacy with the living Christ who continues to transform lives today.

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Several years ago, during my daily Bible reading, I was studying 2 Peter 3. While the chapter is often associated with prophecy and the return of Christ, what struck me most was something far more personal. I felt convicted by the realization that my own walk with Christ needed greater urgency and intentionality. I began asking myself a simple question: If I truly believe what Scripture says, am I living with the purpose and commitment Jesus calls His followers to embrace?

Around that same time, a lifelong friend who had never shown interest in Christianity experienced a dramatic conversion to faith in Jesus Christ. Soon after, I had the privilege of baptizing him and another childhood friend. Their excitement was contagious, but it also revealed a challenge. Like many new Christians, they immediately began asking, "What's next?"

As I searched for resources to help them grow, I found many excellent studies, but I also found much of the curriculum available focused more on discussion topics than on building a strong foundation in God's Word. 

Many believers are hungry for deeper biblical understanding, yet there seems to be few structured pathways combining daily engagement with God's Word, intentional discipleship, and practical application.

Those experiences led me to begin writing what eventually became the first study, for our small group. 

What began as a single study quickly became something more. As the first study came to a conclusion, members asked for the next step. They weren't looking for another topic. They wanted to continue growing in God's Word.

That hunger ultimately became the foundation for this year-long discipleship journey.

The purpose of this curriculum is simple: to help believers build biblical knowledge, develop a daily habit of engaging Scripture, and grow into intentional followers of Jesus Christ. Every lesson, devotional, discussion guide, and reflection is rooted in God's Word and designed to help believers not only understand Scripture more deeply but live it more faithfully.

My prayer is that these studies help churches strengthen discipleship, help leaders guide meaningful conversations, and help believers rediscover the joy, purpose, and transforming power of walking daily with Jesus Christ.

Dan Ellsworth's journey of faith began in rural Colorado, where childhood memories of church, Vacation Bible School, and an early love for Scripture planted seeds that would shape his life. In junior high, his family began attending Meeker Christian Church, where Dan was baptized and developed a deeper commitment to studying God's Word. Under the faithful, verse-by-verse teaching of Pastor Merv Johnson, Scripture became more than a Sunday routine, it became the foundation of his faith and daily life.

Since marrying his wife, Betsy, in 1996, Dan has sought to build a Christ-centered home grounded in faith, love, and perseverance. Together they have raised two children, Matthew and Morgan, while navigating life's joys, challenges, and seasons of growth. Those experiences continue to shape his heart for discipleship and his conviction that spiritual growth happens through a daily walk with Christ.

For more than two decades, Dan has served in church leadership as a small-group leader, deacon, and elder. He has also participated in global missions, including training lay pastors in India and supporting indigenous ministry efforts. While not formally trained as a theologian, Dan is a devoted student of Scripture with a passion for helping believers grow deeper in God's Word and develop a more intentional faith.

Professionally, Dan has spent more than thirty years in the animal health industry and currently leads a consulting firm focused on helping organizations bring innovative products to market. Yet his greatest passion remains encouraging believers to engage Scripture, grow in biblical understanding, and follow Jesus Christ with greater purpose and conviction.

Above all, Dan is a broken follower of Christ who understands his daily need for God's grace and redemption. The studies in this series reflect his belief that God's Word still transforms lives, discipleship is a lifelong journey, and every believer can grow deeper in faith through a consistent relationship with Jesus Christ.