The articles, videos, and audio clips in the Resource Bin have been thoughtfully selected by the staff team to help encourage and challenge you and your coachee in the areas you need it most.
There are two ways to find what you’re looking for: (1) use the search bar to the right to search by keyword or (2) peruse all the topics available below. Don’t know what you’re looking for? Consider starting by going over the Planning for Coaching Appointments guide either by yourself or with your coachee to identify some potential areas for growth.
Section One: Training
Gospel-Centered Questions: getting at our heart motivations
Life Map: heroes, hand of God, hard times, high points, heritage
Planning for Coaching Appointments
The Acid Test: seeing everything as a gift
Requiring Others to Take Responsibility for their choices
Technology and the Heart: trying to appear better than we are on social media
Thinking Rightly About God: maintaining a noble concept of God
Section Two: Sharpening Your Character
All of Life is Repentance: how the gospel transforms repentance
Boys Who Can Shave: moving from adolescence to manhood
Ingredients of Growth: grace + truth over time
Obedience Not Victory: our responsibility for holiness
Standing Strong (Sexual Purity for women)
8 Principles for Dating (for Women)
The Snare of Compare: comparing ourselves to others
8 Things That Reveal a Woman’s Character (for guys)
8 Things to Convince You of a Man’s Character (for girls)
A Garbage Pile of Good Deeds: checking your motivation for doing good to others
We Need Boring Christians: faithfulness in the small things
What Is Better?: continuing to fight against sin
Why Do We Say God Told Me?: expecting God to speak through the Scriptures
Section Three: Sharpening Your Skills
Answering Objections to Christian Faith
Feeding Our Hungry Souls: when we fail to feed on God’s Word
How To Use Soularium Cards to initiate a spiritual conversation
Initiative Evangelism: not waiting for others to ask you
Not Being Able to do it All: breaking free from a performance mentality
Time Management Math: seeing where your time goes
Perspectives: a variation on the use of Perspective Cards
Redemptive Relationships: avoiding evil yet not always avoiding the appearance of evil
Sharing Your Story: preparing to share your testimony
5 Principles for Dating (for Men)
Preparing Your Spiritual Appetizer: sorting through the parts of your story that might best connect with not-yet Christians
Communion With the Spirit: you aren’t given new information to understand, but new eyes to see
Is There Only One Way?: is Christ the only way to salvation?
Becoming a Life-Giving Mentor, not a dispenser of information
Becoming a Life-Giving Mentor Skill Sharpening
7 Marks of Enduring Accountability Relationships: facilitating this component of healthy relationships
Christ Did Not Die For You To Do Keg Stands: formulating a Christian response to drinking on our college campuses
Section Four: Sharpening Your Mission
Definition of Love: 1 Cor 13
Five Things for Your Summer: kingdom vision, team, plan, ongoing coaching, coach
Sharpening Your Mission Further: more resources from crupressgreen.com
Coaching Concordance: what the Bible has to say about several common topics, with references
Good Ways to Start Wondering: easing into spiritual conversations with “I’m wondering . . .”
Gospel Proclamation and Social Justice: combining the two, not one or the other
Grace Right Here Right Now: understanding the majesty and practicality of the grace you have been given
Deconstructing Defeater Beliefs: beliefs that automatically make Christianity seem implausible to people. This one is a little longer, you may want to do this over 2 coaching times.
You are Uniquely Wired and Uniquely Placed by God
Answering Common Objections to Christianity
6 Ways to Waste Your College Education: allowing your faith to inform your life
For Seniors
Eight Habits For the Transition: a personal development workshop to help in the transition to “after college”
Sent Ones: being life-time Christ-centered laborers
What Are We Put In This World to Do?
Recommended Books for Coaching