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Tools for Mentoring
Tools for Mentoring consists of 19 modules available as individual printable PDFs and all 19 in one complete volume in the easily navigable Kindle version, using the Kindle app. Each module is splintered into sections of ready-to-use Bible studies and practical applications. Tools for Mentoring is a start-anywhere spiritual road map; you can do the modules—or sections of a module—in any order and you will still cover the foundational issues of trustworthy character, healthy relationships, and biblical priorities. Tools for Mentoring gives flexible direction for one-to-one discipleship, small groups, and self-study. See video tutorials.
Downloadable PDFs
Tools for Mentoring Complete (PDf)
Tools for Mentoring Complete consists of all 19 individual modules in PDF.
Tools for Mentoring Module 1: Evangelism
Tools for Mentoring Module 1: Evangelism equips you to communicate the gospel message clearly, tell your story, bridge a conversation to spiritual matters, answer frequently asked questions about Christianity, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 2: Water Baptism
Tools for Mentoring Module 2: Water Baptism guides you through the spiritual reality baptism illustrates, the example of first-century believers, preparation for baptism, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 3: Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Tools for Mentoring Module 3: Baptism with the Holy Spirit guides you through a short study of the Trinity, what the baptism with the Holy Spirit is and how to experience it, answers to common questions, how to access the nine supernatural gifts, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 4: Overcoming Sin
Tools for Mentoring Module 4: Overcoming Sin guides you through the steps to overcoming sin and old habits, what the journey of change looks like, how to escape temptation, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 5: The Bible
Tools for Mentoring Module 5: The Bible guides you through the reliability of the Bible, how to cultivate a regular time with God, how to study, memorize, and meditate on the Bible, guidelines for interpreting different types of Bible literature, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 6: Prayer
Tools for Mentoring Module 6: Prayer guides you through how to hear God speaking to you, ways to pray, the significance of your prayers, fasting, praying in a group, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 7: Repentance and Making a Moral Inventory
Tools for Mentoring Module 7: Repentance and Making a Moral Inventory guides you to discover repentance as God’s invitation to freedom and hope for change. You work through a past-resolving inventory and make amends.
Tools for Mentoring Module 8: Forgiving
Tools for Mentoring Module 8: Forgiving guides you through reasons to forgive, what the process looks like, how to treat the offender, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 9: The Yielded Life
Tools for Mentoring Module 9: The Yielded Life presents the paradoxical freedom of the surrendered life, and what it looks like to deny the self-serving use of position, people’s approval, finances, time, and other life areas.
Tools for Mentoring Module 10: Sex & Dating
Tools for Mentoring Module 10: Sex and Dating guides you through God’s intention for sex, healthy boundaries and how to maintain them, and what to look for in a dating relationship and marriage partner. Other topics include pornography, homosexuality, how to experience forgiveness and healing, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 11: Time Management
Tools for Mentoring Module 11: Time Management guides you through discovering and implementing life priorities so that you spend your days on what really matters. You’ll find useful ways to get things done with less stress.
Tools for Mentoring Module 12: Financial Management
Tools for Mentoring Module 12: Financial Management guides you through what it looks like to manage God’s resources wisely and benevolently within a self-serving culture. Topics include planning, saving, managing prosperity, and addressing poverty, while overcoming debt and subtle forms of greed.
Tools for Mentoring Module 13: Guidance
Tools for Mentoring Module 13: Guidance offers biblical principles and questions to help you evaluate your choices and discover God’s direction. It describes guidance from the Holy Spirit’s inner voice, the Bible, dreams, supernatural gifts, circumstances, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 14: Talking Christianly
Tools for Mentoring Module 14: Talking Christianly equips you to have a great conversation, speak in life-giving ways, side-step gossip, give and receive feedback, resolve conflicts, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 15: Work Ethic
Tools for Mentoring Module 15: Work Ethic guides you through finding significance in your work, biblical work ethics, attitudes, and habits, taking a restorative Sabbath, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 16: Worship
Tools for Mentoring Module 16: Worship guides you through how to cultivate a God-focused posture and includes thematic groups of psalms to use for personal or group worship.
Tools for Mentoring Module 17: Suffering
Tools for Mentoring Module 17: Suffering guides you through responding to persecution, overcoming temptations such as resentment, complaining, or self-pity, and processing questions such as Is God good?, Why is there suffering?, and more.
Tools for Mentoring Module 18: Authority
Tools for Mentoring Module 18: Authority guides you through using power like Jesus taught and modeled, what submission looks like and its limits, responding to weakness in authorities, relating biblically in the Christian community, workplace, marriage, and to government authorities.
Tools for Mentoring Module 19: Missions
Tools for Mentoring Module 19: Missions equips you with perspective, purpose, and doable ways to make God known to someone on the other side of the globe, and your neighbor. It includes resources and effective ways to befriend an international student, pray strategically, and live intentionally as a global-minded Christian.
Complete Edition on Kindle
Tools for Mentoring Complete Edition (Kindle)
The Tools for Mentoring Kindle book includes all 19 modules of Bible studies and a section on how to use TFM. Download the Kindle app on your phone or device, and then make your purchase. TFM is full of internal and external links. Use the detailed table of contents or the search feature to link you to what you want to study. It’s paperless and portable—you’ll have quick access to TFM wherever you go.
