Salt & Light is a Bible-based financial teaching course to help you demonstrate God’s kingdom locally. It helps you discover how to become better stewards of God’s resources and actively engage with your local community, church, and youth.

SALT reaches out globally to people in material poverty in dozens of countries through savings groups, agricultural development, microloans, and vocational training. We foster hope and opportunity to people in communities where life seems hopeless.

The Salt & Light course provides Biblical stewardship teaching and endeavors to bring this same hope to our North American communities. The course is designed with four “Tracks” tailored for investing in our own churches as well as for reaching out to others. Many Anabaptist communities have been blessed for generations with godly homes and biblical teaching. The overarching goal of the Salt & Light course is to provide a tool to help “Kingdom Christians” walk with their neighbors, coworkers, employees, and others, demonstrating Christ while providing sustainable, long-term way-of-life help.

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Strength to Strength welcomed Susan Schlabach to answer the question: How do we become women who make wise choices in the marketplace of life?

Eve showed us that as women we are vulnerable to the voices out there. What happened at Eden also shows that even when we lack discernment, we have influence.

To know truth is to be attentive to God. This search is not so much the pursuit of an idea, but of intimacy with a Person. We are no more discerning than we are lovers of God.

In this talk we will explore how attainable discernment is. What does this search require from us? What are some ideas for building a life of discernment?

An interactive question-and-answer period follows.

July 26, 2025

Strength to Strength welcomed a group of four panelists to answer your hardest questions on church history.

This Q&A is not limited to specific topics discussed in our Sacred Roots series, but is limited to questions of church history in the first 1500 years.

During this Talk, David Anderson was asked for recommended reading for non-scholars who wish to get into the early church. His compilation is found on our website at the link below:

https://strengthtostrength.org/sacred-roots-panel-1-q-a/

July 12, 2025

Strength to Strength welcomed Stephen Russell to discuss the events and background that led up to the Reformation.

The Reformation was an earthquake preceded by a thousand tremors. In this Talk, we will now look at numerous factors which were significant in setting the stage for the Protestant Reformation (1517–1648). First we will look at a number of people and events, roughly chronologically, which destabilized the Medieval world view. After that we will consider a number of reformers who predated the actual Reformation.

An interactive question-and-answer period follows.

https://strengthtostrength.org/sacred-roots-setting-the-stage-for-the-reformation/

Strength to Strength welcomed Carol Nisly to share about cultivating meaningful personal Bible Study.

"He to whom the Eternal Word speaketh is delivered from a multitude of opinions." —Thomas à Kempis

I find there is no shortage of opinions on most any topic under the sun, and many of them leave me anxious. With Simon Peter, I say, “Lord, You have the words of life.”

While the amount of time spent in personal, quiet Bible study varies with the seasons of a woman’s life, I believe it is always possible to meditate on and to internalize its truths. What are some keys to regular, nourishing, and satisfying Bible study? What keeps us from studying? What tools have others found helpful? Is there a difference between having devotions and being devoted?

I hope you will join me in discussion about how to cultivate this important habit and to be delivered from the opinions of men, including our own.

An interactive question-and-answer period follows.

https://strengthtostrength.org/personal-bible-study/

June 28, 2025

Strength to Strength welcomed Philip Hess to discuss the canonization of the New Testament.

Christians believe that the New Testament is not only a trustworthy record of historical events in the first first century but the inspired revelation of God’s Son and his new covenant with mankind. But how did we get the New Testament? How do we know that it is inspired? How do we know that we have the collection of inspired writings that God wanted us to have? Join us as we discuss these and other questions related to the canonization of the New Testament.

An interactive question-and-answer period follows.

https://strengthtostrength.org/sacred-roots-canonization-of-the-new-testament/

Strength to Strength welcomed David Anderson for a discussion of what monasticism contributes to a holistic and healthy life.

In its best form, monasticism was a form of resistance: not just against compromise in the church, but against hurry, distraction, and disordered desire in the soul.

This episode explores the history of monasticism and what it offers today: not escape, but attention; not performance, but formation. Through rhythm, prayer, and ordered love, monks sought to become fully alive to God. In this episode, we will explore how their wisdom still speaks to our distracted and restless age.

An interactive question-and-answer period follows.

Strength to Strength welcomed four homeschooling mothers to share about their experience in their children’s formal education.

Can we effectively disciple our children through homeschooling? Join four experienced homeschooling moms for an interactive discussion on topics like academics, sustainability, structure and resources. There will be a time for you to share your questions. Come prepared to be inspired while gaining practical insights and encouragement for your journey.

An interactive question-and-answer period follows.