Mentoring with James Goll is a way for me to impart what I have learned into your life, all year long.

This program gives you access to 3 Live Classes that I’ll be hosting over the next year, including all of the bonuses—that’s over 60 lessons of life-changing content!

New Age, Eastern Mysticism, and self-help gurus all use words, phrases, and techniques that originated with Christian practices. For example, “centering” is a practice that originated with the Quakers and was later borrowed by secularists. Regardless of the various ways Christian practices have been borrowed and corrupted by counterfeit spiritual movements, they do not negate the validity or scriptural basis on which they are grounded. In this lesson, you will learn 9 simple tests to discern between biblical, Spirit-led contemplative practices and their illegal counterfeits. You will gain spiritual guardrails to guide your journey into the contemplative life and be empowered to reclaim the realms of meditation, contemplation, and revelation for His Name’s sake!

Prayer is being with Someone. It is communion with God Himself. In this lesson, you will explore the joys, goals, and rewards of contemplative prayer. You will discover the progressive steps and phases of contemplative prayer through the writings and testimonies of some of the Church’s great contemplatives. This lesson will inspire you to continue in prayer until you become one with God’s Presence and an expression of Jesus emanates in and through you.

You are invited into the Father’s House! This lesson takes you on a journey through the parables of Jesus, the visionary experiences of the famed 16th-century-Christian mystic, Saint Teresa of Avila, and a contemporary vision of what God is doing in the Church. As a result, you will discover the joyful pathway of journeying into your own interior castle with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and better understand what it means to be a dwelling place of God.

The Christian discipline of meditative prayer is almost a lost art among believers today. Christian meditative prayer is not a technique or a “new age” approach to meditation. It is pursuing communion with God Himself. In this lesson, you will discover why this spiritual practice is relevant to the Church today and learn ten different models of biblical meditation (along with seven practical guidelines) that will help you reap the powerful benefits of this type of communing prayer.

The Tabernacle is an earthly shadow of the spiritual realm of God’s Presence dwelling in you. In this lesson, you will examine contemplative prayer through the lens of the Tabernacle of Moses and follow the progressive pattern of the priestly ministry revealed in Scripture. You will recognize your unique prayer anointing and explore how contemplative prayer fuels the fire on the altar of your heart. You will come full circle as your inward journey propels you forward for outward impact and effective ministry as you carry His presence everywhere you go. You will now be able to offer to others the ultimate purpose of prayer: God Himself and His Brilliant Presence!

When I (James W. Goll) was 48 years old, in summer of 2000, I had a dream and wrote it down in one of my many journals. It stated, “When you are 70 years old you will write a book called Lessons from the Woodshed.” Fascinating. What a peculiar word for the Holy Spirit to give! At the time, I remember thinking I would definitely need to be 70 years old to have enough wisdom and life experience to be able to share something transparent, real and impacting.

Frankly, I forgot this dream until I was preparing to teach a class on the prophetic for Wagner University. I knew I was to include a session on “The Power of Journaling.” So, as I was packing to fly from Nashville, TN to Los Angeles, CA, I felt led to grab some of my journals to take along as Exhibit A, B and C for the class.

When the time came for me to teach the fabled class, I was a bit daring and just opened up a journal to any random page. I read the date of the journal entry, the location of where I was when the entry took place, and the summation. The entry was dated “Fall of 2012.” Imagine my surprise as I read this word about “Lessons from the Woodshed” in front of the class. I was flooded with thoughts and feelings as I was now 60 years old. I had survived 9 years of cancer, experienced the loss of my wife, and I was in the midst of learning a host of life lessons. I thought, “Now that is amazing! Well, thank God, that book is another ten years off!”

My theme verse for “Redemptive Lessons from a Good Father” comes from Hebrews 12:6 where it states, “the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.” This class will contain very personal lessons from my own life that will be matched by scriptural biographical sketches. What goes around comes around! There is nothing new under the sun.

It is my prayer that as I share these transparent stories, you will learn wisdom from the hard lessons I have learned. After all, we have a good, good Father God, and he knows how to lovingly bring us into maturity! I believe that as you listen and apply these lessons, you will find yourself transformed into the image of Jesus.