Discipleship
Learn the Bible, step by step.
Free, self-paced video teaching with study guides. Start with the path below, or go deeper with a sermon series.
Step 01 · Course
Essentials
3 lessons · 22 min
4:31Lesson 01
Essentials - Step One
The Christian journey is about progress not perfection, emphasizing God's faithful forgiveness and the call to transformation through obedience to Jesus.
9:11Lesson 02
Essentials - Step Two
Four essential habits every new believer needs to develop in their first 30 days: get baptized, read God's Word daily, commit to prayer, and live a life of repentance.
8:03Lesson 03
Essentials - Step Three
Why the local church is God's gift to help believers grow spiritually (connection with God), relationally (connection with others), and missionally (living out their purpose).
26:55Lesson 01
The Purpose of Theology
Why studying God (theology) matters, emphasizing that loving God with our minds requires critical thinking, distinguishing essential beliefs from opinions, and applying biblical truth to transform our lives.
23:58Lesson 02
Revelation and Authority
How God reveals Himself to humanity through general revelation (nature, history, and conscience) and special revelation (Scripture and Jesus Christ), emphasizing that our transcendent God made Himself known because we cannot reach Him on our own.
35:14Lesson 03
The Trinity
The complex doctrine of the Trinity - one God in three persons (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) - explaining why understanding God's triune nature is essential for true Christian worship and getting God right.
28:07Lesson 04
Christology
The divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ, addressing how Jesus claimed to be God, C.S. Lewis's "lunatic, liar, or Lord" argument, and why both His deity and humanity are essential for salvation and our relationship with God.
28:35Lesson 05
The Holy Spirit
The doctrine of the Holy Spirit - the third person of the Trinity - covering His deity, personality, Old Testament work, New Testament empowerment, and the gifts of the Spirit, emphasizing that He is not a force but a person who convicts, regenerates, sanctifies, and empowers believers.
30:22Lesson 06
End Times (Eschatology)
Jesus' teaching on the end times, distinguishing between the fall of Jerusalem (70 AD) and Christ's second coming, while emphasizing that believers should patiently endure, faithfully steward their gifts, and serve "the least of these" while waiting for His return.
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Sermon series
Teaching from Sunday mornings at Bakersfield First, gathered into series you can watch in order.
The Unseen Realm
New3 parts · 2h 47m
56:35Lesson 01
Unseen, Not Unreal
What if the Bible has always been inviting us into a far stranger and more magnificent reality than we ever allowed ourselves to consider?
53:07Lesson 02
The Oldest Lie in the Sky
What do UFOs, ancient occultism, and the cross of Christ have in common? More than we might think.
57:31Lesson 03
A New Tower of Babel
We live in a moment unlike any other in human history. The technology we are building is no longer just a tool to help us write emails or search the internet.
The Bible For Grownups
3 parts · 2h 29m
49:45Lesson 01
Building a Proper Foundation
This lesson diagnoses the spiritual malnutrition of modern Christianity, where believers survive on feel-good messages instead of doing the hard work of understanding Scripture in context, and calls us to mature faith grounded in God's Word rather than cultural comfort.
49:27Lesson 02
Context Changes Everything
This lesson emphasizes that context is everything when studying Scripture, teaching how to properly interpret the Bible by understanding its original meaning rather than inserting ourselves into every passage.
49:39Lesson 03
Removing Our Lenses
This lesson exposes the theological biases we all bring to Scripture - from culture and upbringing to world events - and teaches how to distinguish between essential doctrines, denominational differences, and personal opinions while finding true theological principles in the text.