Faith from the Ground Up: A 52-Week Guide to Following Jesus

How the year is arranged and how to use this guide.

Before You Can Trust God, You Have to Know His Heart

Before You Can Understand Grace, You Have to Understand Holiness

Before You Can Rest in God, You Have to Know Who Is in Charge

Before You Can Depend on God, You Have to Know He Keeps His Word

Before You Can Worship God Rightly, You Have to Know Him as He Has Revealed Himself

Before You Can Follow Jesus, You Have to Know Who He Is

Before You Can Live the Christian Life, You Have to Know You Are Not Living It Alone

Before You Can Know God, He Has to Make Himself Known

Before You Can Understand the Gospel, You Have to Know What You Were Made For

Before You Can Welcome the Cure, You Have to Accept the Diagnosis

Before You Can Rejoice in Forgiveness, You Have to See What It Cost

Before You Can Live with Hope, You Have to Know That He Is Alive

Before You Can Rest in Christ, You Have to Stop Trying to Earn Him

Before You Can Walk with God, You Have to Turn Around

Before You Can Live Differently, You Have to Know Who You Now Are

Before You Can Serve God Freely, You Have to Know Where You Stand

Before You Can Grow, You Have to Be Fed

Before You Can Know Someone, You Have to Talk with Them

Before You Can Pray Well, You Have to Learn from the One Who Prayed Perfectly

Before You Can Worship on Sunday, You Have to Understand What Worship Is

Before You Can Stand, You Have to Stand with Others

Before You Can Hunger for God, You Have to Loosen the Grip of Lesser Things

Before You Can Work Well, You Have to Learn to Stop

Before You Can Give Freely, You Have to Know Whose It Is

Before You Can Walk in the Light, You Have to Stop Hiding

Before You Can Bear Fruit, You Have to Stay Connected

Before You Can Measure Your Growth, You Have to Know What God Is Growing

Before You Can Grow, You Have to Understand Who Does the Work

Before You Can Stand, You Have to Know How You Fall

Before You Can Fight Well, You Have to Know Your Enemy and Your Captain

Before You Can Forgive, You Have to Remember How Much You Have Been Forgiven

Before You Can Be Lifted Up, You Have to Come Down

Before You Can Change Your Words, You Have to Deal with Their Source

Before You Can Live in Purity, You Have to See That It Is a Gift

Before You Can Be Satisfied, You Have to Know What Is Enough

Before the Storm Comes, You Have to Know What Will Hold

Before You Can Find Answers, You Have to Be Honest About the Questions

Before You Can Receive What God Has Prepared, You Often Have to Wait

Before You Can Be at Peace, You Have to Know Who Is with You

Before You Can Finish, You Have to Keep Going

Before You Can Love God Fully, You Have to Love the Person in Front of You

Before You Can Love the World, You Have to Love the People Who Know You Best

Before You Can Stand in the Hard Day, You Have to Have Someone Beside You

Before You Can Serve God in Your Work, You Have to See That It Matters to Him

Before You Can Reflect God’s Heart, You Have to Care About What He Cares About

Before You Can Love Like Your Father, You Have to Love Those Who Do Not Love You

Before You Can Keep the Faith, You Have to Give It Away

Before You Can Answer Others, You Have to Know Why You Believe

Before You Can Find Your Place, You Have to See That You Were Given Something to Give

Before You Can Live Well Today, You Have to Know How the Story Ends

Before You Can Endure the Present, You Have to See What Is Coming

Before You Can Stand in the Storm, You Have to Do What You Have Heard