Office Hours
A New Feature of Kyle's Substack
Hello all!
I have been thinking about doing this for a while now, but I’ve been waiting until I had something to post. I am starting a new section of posts for paid-only subscribers that I call “Office Hours.”
As I’ve thought about my substack, and as I’ve been in contact with some of you, I wanted to create something like student office hours where the content can be driven by your questions. So what sort of content will be on here?
First, I plan on creating some mini-classes, and I want to maintain a running list of them in this post (I’ll keep this post pinned and updated on my main substack page and under the new category “Office Hours,” so it is easy to find). My plan for these is to do video-based courses that are narrowly defined and saved all in one post.
Mini-Courses:
Reimagining Discipleship in the Church: This course considers the claim, made by most today, that the main problem in the church is discipleship. Offering a different view, and focusing on what the Bible says about disciples, rabbis, and discipleship, Kyle suggests that there is a deeper vision we often miss when we focus on these words. Click here for this mini-course.
Bringing Spiritual Formation to the Church: This course focuses on common mistakes people make in bringing spiritual formation to the church, and offers a “spiritual theology diagnostic” for shepherding a people, whether you are a pastor or a church member who wants to engage these questions in a deeper way. Click here to see this mini-course.
Preaching for Formation: This is a different sort of mini-course, with a longer introductory video with a shorter video answering the question I hear most, followed by text- and audio-based reflections on preaching. Instead of talking about preaching in the abstract, I wanted to talk about specific features of preaching and then provide ways I’ve approached it, and so these posts include audio versions of sermons I’ve given. Click here to see this mini-course.
Second, I plan on doing some video guides that serve as supplemental guides for my books.
Video Guide for Where Prayer Becomes Real: The best use of this guide, either individually or with a group, is to read the chapter, watch the video, and then spend an allotted amount of time to practice the prayer at the end of the chapter (I think a week would be good, but a month would give more space to really enter into the practice). If you are doing this in a group, you should read the group guide at the back of the book as a way to frame the time spent together. Click here to see this free mini-course.
Third, I’ll try to have listed here mini-series I’ve developed on various topics, although these will probably be continuously developed (but if you are a subscriber you’ll get updated about when I do this).