Zealous: Inspiration for discipling the next generation

David Michael introduces listeners to Krista Horning who shares a powerful testimony of how God used Truth78 curriculum to help her see Him and know Him through His Word.

Hear also how you can partner with Truth78 for the discipleship of the next generations at https://www.truth78.org/bold-mission.

This episode completes the first season of the Zealous podcast. The second season will begin this fall after a brief summer break.

What needs are you facing as the year comes to a close and you look ahead to the new year? Have your needs shown you how dependent you are on God? In this episode David Michael and Dan Claassen talk about our utter dependence on God and how that should motivate us to pray big, bold, biblical prayers. 

Why memorize Scripture? David Michael, Sally Michael, and Jill Nelson join Dan Claassen in sharing the significance and benefits of bible memorization. Special emphasis is given to the Fighter Verses program (fighterverses.com), a compilation of 260 passages that help believers fight the fight of faith. The Fighter Verses program now features a free guide to Scripture memory and a new study built around Set 2 that begins in 2022.  

In this special episode, David Michael and Dan Claassen discuss the most unusual gift David has received, benevolence shown during Giving Tuesday, and the best gift we can give to the next generation. It also includes a conversation with Bernard, a podcast listener and teacher from Nairobi, Kenya, on teaching children from solid biblical material.

For more on Giving Tuesday, go to Truth78.org/partner.

The newly released More Than a Story: New Testament by Sally Michael continues the story begun in the Old Testament volume, showing how Christ has come to fulfill all of God's promises for His people. Hear how this resource uniquely provides parents, grandparents, teachers, and church leaders with an effective and accessible tool for the discipleship of the next generation. 

Available at Truth78.org/story.

The proclamation of God’s glorious deeds in a God-glorifying way inspires children to worship God to His glory and their joy in Him. In this last episode in the series on the seven commitments of discipleship, David, Sally, and Jill describe how when we rightly emphasize God’s glory when declaring His glorious deeds, the natural response of the heart is worship. 

This generation of parents, pastors, and teachers cannot escape the responsibility they have for nurturing the faith of the next generation, and there is no way to escape the reality that the children of the next generation will only be saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. That's why this episode focuses on how God’s unstoppable purposes for our children and our inescapable responsibility to raise them in the faith come together in prayer.

We can teach our children and students a lot of biblical information—and so we should, but more is needed for children to personally know, embrace, and apply biblical truth. In this episode on the 5th commitment, David Michael, Sally Michael, and Jill Nelson share how to disciple the mind, heart, and will.

The gospel is simple yet amazingly profound, freely offered yet extremely costly, and should be communicated as such. David Michael, Sally Michael, and Jill Nelson share how parents and teachers can present the gospel of Jesus Christ as glorious in this 4th commitment at the heart of the seven commitments for the discipleship of the next generations. 

In this episode, David Michael, Sally Michael, and Jill Nelson explain the significance of teaching the next generation the whole counsel of God—a core knowledge of the breadth and depth of Scripture that is essential for coming to salvation in Christ and living a life of faith.

The church and the home are the two institutions established by God for the discipleship of the next generation. In this episode you will hear not only a call for both of these institutions to pick up the mantle of responsibility they share for the discipleship of the next generation, but also how to go about fostering a robust partnership between the church and home. 

Having a vision is crucial for the discipleship of children and youth. David Michael, Sally Michael, and Jill Nelson share about the origin and significance of ministry driven by vision over program in this episode focused on the first of the seven commitments for the discipleship of the next generation.

This first episode focuses on the importance of zeal for next generation discipleship. Dan Claassen, the host of the Zealous podcast, introduces the podcast and then sets up a conversation with David Michael, Sally Michael, and Jill Nelson which kicks off a series of episodes on zeal and commitments for the discipleship of the next generation. 

Get a copy of Zealous as well as A Guide to Growing Zeal at truth78.org/zealous.

Dan Claassen introduces the Zealous podcast as a bi-weekly program designed to inspire and equip the church and the home for the comprehensive discipleship of the next generation.