Time Management
- Time Management Conversation
- Here’s a resource from CRU, our American counterpart, on time management, including worksheets for your disciple.
- Trevor’s Time Management Tips
- Trevor’s Pick: Here are some thoughts on time management that I started learning in university and have been using since.
Technology
- Social Media, Your Phone, and Your Faith
- This conversation guide will help you talk to your disciple about their phone use from a few different angles, and determine what next steps may be needed to honour God more with their online habits.
- Loving God With All Your Tech Habits article
- A great article addressing the way we use tech, what it looks like to honour God in these habits, and including some practical tips and advice to apply in this area.
Finances
- Stewarding Your Finances as a Student
- Trevor’s Pick: Here are some simple insights I’ve learned since my university days about money. Hopefully they will help you as they’ve helped me. Read on your own or go through with your disciple.
Sex, Relationships & Pornography
- The Gospel and Sex
- Allison’s Pick: This article by Tim Keller covers a lot of ground in a pretty concise way. From culturally influenced views of sex and marriage to godly ways to think about singleness and dating, there is a lot here to talk about. You don’t have to agree with everything Keller says here to have some good food for thought from this read, and depending on how strong your disciple’s foundations are on these topics, this may be a good place to start laying solid groundwork.
- Obsessed with Beauty, Romance, and Sex
- An Augustine-esque recounting of one man’s struggle with relating to the opposite sex, including struggles with pornography, and how God meets him in the midst of that.
- Sex and the Single Woman
- Allison’s Pick: I have come back to this article more than once to hear Fabienne Harford point me to Christ in the midst of the struggles of singleness and desire. I really recommend it to start the conversation about the realities of temptation.
- Strength to Fight
- Strength to Fight has resources for so many aspects of the struggle of porn addiction, from first addressing it to relapse to conversations with others about it. There are resources specific to men and to women.
- PureVictory Podcast
- An excellent podcast with over 200 episodes related to all different topics around pornography, sexual temptation and struggles.
Going Deeper
- 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke
- Allison’s Pick: I know I often develop tech habits without even realizing it. This book is an in-depth Christian perspective on tech use and faith, written to help us be intentional in this area of our life.
- Practicing Patience in Romantic Relationships
- One woman’s experience with patience in romantic timing, including a practical example of partnering with the Holy Spirit when it comes to sexual temptation.