Resources

Leadership Development

BOW offers free, short podcast episodes/videos to help you grow as a leader. Although the links go to the videos, there you can find the link to the podcast episode.

What kind of leadership skills do you need?

• General Leadership

• Leading Small Groups

• Studying and Teaching the Bible

What other resources can help you?

• Visit BOW’s  blog for articles on leadership and life.
• Download BOW’s  list of resources for leaders.
• Sign up for BOW’s monthly e-newsletter.

Let us know your area of need as we plan future resources.

Godly Living

BOW’s resources about living God’s way  apply not only to leaders, but to all believers.

Grow in Christlikeness by connecting to BOW’s podcast episodes/videos. The links below are to the videos, but there you can link to the podcast episode.

• Cultivating Joy — Why is joy essential to discipleship?
• What Does it Mean to Be the Image of God? — How do we live in light of the truth that all people are the image of God?
• Politics and Discipleship discusses what having a healthier and more biblical approach to politics would look like.
• Embrace Your Life when life doesn’t meet our expectations
• Diversity of a Different Kind a fresh approach to personal conflict resolution
• Lament series to understand and practice lament
• Finding a Mentor practically finding the right mentor
• A Language of Healing for a Polarized Nation how to talk to others unlike us
•  Justice in the Bible 
• Embrace the Impact of Prayer 
• Biblical Manhood & Womanhood what is actually biblical vs. what is cultural
• Sharing Your Faith Story friendship evangelism
• You Are on God’s Team God uses all of us.
• Leading Toward Racial Reconciliation  helping leaders lead their flocks
• Beginning the Road to Racial Reconciliation Where to begin?
•  Fight Right guidance for conflict
• It’s Time for a RelationSHIFT envisions a better way for women & men to work together in the church.

Church Issues

BOW’s resources meet the modern church and its people as we face difficult issues in today’s world. BOW offers biblically-based conversations to help navigate those topics on BOW’s podcast and videos. Contact us with ideas for other issues you’d like us to tackle.

The link to BOW’s videos on difficult topics facing the church also contain a link to the podcast episode.

• State of Ministry to Women Today How are women’s ministries in our churches doing?
• Politics and Discipleship shares ideas for defusing the hatred and arguments in the church.
• Caring for Women Who Struggle with Porn information & suggestions for dealing with a growing problem
• Recognizing Rape Culture Defining and changing rape culture
• Purity Culture: A Corrective why purity culture arose, what went wrong and how we should approach it
• Becoming Pursuers of God Michelle Clifford shares a vision for discipleship and the basics of her unique course, Pursuit.
• Is Motherhood Our Highest Calling? how the ancient goddess Artemis relates to the idea that motherhood is a Christian woman’s highest calling
• Ministering to GenZ responding well to their needs
• Women and the Gender of God God’s gender is good news for women
• 40 Questions About Women in Ministry authors of the book 40 Questions About Women in Ministry on some of the major issues
• Sexual Identity & Gender Identity  sexual identity and gender identity and responding biblically
• Gender and Scripture common misconceptions about what gender is and what the Bible teaches
• Re-Imagining Discipleship Many Christian conversations today show symptoms of a problem–lack of biblical discipleship: A Theological Perspective, A Spiritual Formation Perspective, A Church Leader Perspective, A Missions Perspective and A Kingdom Perspective. 
• Post-Roe: Supporting Mothers and Babies How do we support mothers now that abortion is not a right? 
• Sexual Abuse and the Church how we as the church should respond when a victim shares about sexual abuse
• Biblical Archaeology how archaeological discoveries support the historicity of the Bible and increase our faith
• Justice in the Bible an overview of what the Bible says
• Biblical Manhood and Womanhood a closer look at what the Bible actually says about this topic
• Two series on the issue of racial division: Leading Toward Racial Reconciliation for leaders and Beginning the Road to Racial Reconciliation for all of us.
• For guidance in ministering well to singles in The Forgotten Ones: Singles and the Church
• Women in Public Ministry: Revisiting the Issue series with Dr. Sandra Glahn
• It’s Time for a RelationSHIFT a better way for women & men in the church to work together

Caring Well

God has designed those in the church to care well for others. BOW’s resources can help!

 Resources to help us obey Jesus’ commands to love our neighbors go to the videos but also show the podcast link

• Becoming Communities of Belonging — How can our churches and groups become places of welcome for people with disabilities?
• What Does it Mean to Be the Image of God? — What does that mean for each of us–no matter who we are? How does this truth practically affect the way we live?
• Caring for Women Who Struggle with Porn information & suggestions for dealing with a growing problem
• Recognizing Rape Culture What is rape culture and what can we do?
• Support and Love for Widows  practical suggestions in caring for widows
• Ministering to GenZ caring well for Gen Z
• Learning to Love Our Neighbors reflections and a biblical response from a recent trip to the border
• Sexual Identity & Gender Identity sexual identity and gender identity and the church’s response
• Post-Roe: Supporting Mothers and Babies caring well for women and their children now that there is no right to abortion
• Sexual Abuse and the Church responding well when a victim shares about sexual abuse
• Diversity of a Different Kind having the right attitude in conflict
• Embrace the Impact of Prayer caring well for others through intercession
• Two series on racial reconciliation and caring well for our brothers & sisters: Leading Toward Racial Reconciliation and Beginning the Road to Racial Reconciliation.
• Ministering well to singles through The Forgotten Ones: Singles and the Church.
• Ministering TO Millennials understanding and loving Millennials

Bible Studies

BOW’s Bible study resources are designed for all ages and maturity levels while stretching everyone to grow.

We prioritize discipleship, not just knowledge. Understanding the context of the Bible and the context of the culture are essential to rightly grasp the meaning and the application of the Scriptures.

We’ve called some of our studies journaling studies, but that simply means that you write down your thoughts in a journal or on your own paper or computer.

Here’s a preview example. 

• Deliverance: The Exodus and Jesus (parallels in the deliverance from Egypt & Jesus’s deliverance)
• Coming Home to Jesus (Gospel of Luke) 
• Kingdom Living: A Study of the Sermon on the Mount (the priorities of Jesus’ kingdom) 
• The ONE Story (the Bible’s meta-narrative of the whole Bible) 
• Who is this Jesus? (Gospel of John) 
• Interrupted by God (biblical stories of God’s work through people)
• Near to the Heart of God (selected psalms)
• A Walk of Faith (Abraham’s faith) 
• Christians in a Hostile World: A Study of 1 Peter (a message
  to persecuted believers – available for free from bible.org)
• An Anchor for the Soul (the Minor Prophets who speak to us today – available for free from bible.org)
• Running the Race: A Bible Study of the Life of Paul (following Jesus as Paul did – available for free at bible.org)
• Seeing Clearly through the Darkness (a study of Judges for the church today – available for free from bible.org)

From Ordinary Woman to Spiritual Leader: Grow your Influence

by Kay Daigle

One thing that I have discovered is that every woman leads someone. Perhaps you influence a friend, child, co-worker or neighbor. You may also lead a group, large or small.

Because this book is designed to help you seek God more deeply and better understand your calling, you will be challenged spiritually through its principles. It will help you influence others more intentionally.

My prayer is that it will bring you encouragement and that God will use it to grow you as a leader in your sphere of influence. –Kay