In episode 188, “Spiritual Disciplines”, Brooke and Faren discuss the importance of spiritual disciplines that will help you grow as a Christian. Applying these four principles to your everyday life will increase your Bible wisdom, trust in God, and confidence in telling others about Jesus. Reading your Bible daily, praying consistently, living in intentional community, and telling others about God are the four key elements we talk about in today’s episode.
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Book Study Mini Series Resources
Over the past few years at Witty & Gritty, we’ve taken secular books, and put them through a Biblical lens. Over time, we have built a library of resources through these podcast book study mini series, and they still hold true today. We walk you through life lessons with how we should live as Christians. Here are the book study mini series you can walk through at any point to hone in on those specific skills (all clickable links):
- 15 Laws of Invaluable Growth
- The Road Back to You (Enneagram 101)
- Grit
- Daring Greatly
- Everything is Figureoutable
- Switch On Your Brain
- The Path Between Us (Enneagram 201)
- Get Out of Your Head
- Dream Big
- Atomic Habits
- 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do
- Gangster Prayer
- The 5 Love Languages
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- I Am Rahab
Through these book studies, you learn about biblical leadership, business, mindset shifts, habits, vulnerability, and relationships. All of these have spiritual disciplines throughout the episodes that will help you hone in on real life skills while remaining true to your faith.
The Four Spiritual Disciplines
If you’re wanting to grow as a Christian, raise up your kids to know God, and strengthen your relationships, these four spiritual disciplines will get your there. Yes, there are subcategories within these four, but if we zoom out a bit, growing spiritually can look like this:
- READ: Reading the Bible Daily
- PRAY: Praying Consistently throughout the day
- TALK: Intentional Christian Community
- TELL: Sharing the gospel with others
Doing these four things consistently and wholeheartedly will help you know more about who God is and what He is going to do. This in turn gives you confidence to help equip your children (or whoever you’re stewarding/guiding) to learn to love Jesus.
Beginning in episode 189, we’ll begin walking through books of the Bible, giving you our highlight reel, and how to apply it to your life in the Read, Pray, Talk, Tell style. You’ll be able to walk away each week with applicable action steps that guide you and those around you.
Memorizing Scripture
Learning what the Bible says by heart has all the benefits. Yes, it takes practice and dedication, and it is one of the best things you can do for yourself and for the people around you. We feel so strongly about this, that we made a FREE GUIDE just for you. It’s called the 12 Methods to Memorizing Scripture, and you can find it at the bottom of this page in the giant letters” GET YOUR FREE GUIDE.”
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”
Colossians 3:16
In episode 188, we also include Brooke’s word of the year and Faren’s scripture focus for the year, so if you’ve ever been interested in that idea for you or your family (highly recommend). Brooke’s goal for the year is to be saturated in God’s word, and Faren’s scripture of the year is below, but go read it in context so you get the full picture (or scroll up and press play):
“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:14
