Study Plans
Guided journeys through Scripture — from a single week to sixty days. Each plan is built around a real arc with daily passages, reflection questions, and prayers.
Short Plans
5–7 daysThe Resurrection Story: Death to Life
This five-day journey walks the reader through the full emotional and spiritual terrain of the resurrection — from the darkness of loss, through the shock of an empty tomb, to the personal encounter with a risen Savior. By the end, the reader will not merely know the resurrection as history, but will feel its weight as a living reality that speaks directly into their own grief, doubt, and longing for hope.
The Open Hand: A Journey into Generosity
This 7-day study takes small groups from an honest reckoning with scarcity and self-protection, through the disruptive logic of biblical generosity, to a shared commitment to lives marked by open-handed living. By the end, readers will have moved from asking "how much should I give?" to asking "who am I becoming through how I give?"
Finding Peace in the Anxious Places
This seven-day journey begins by honestly naming anxiety — not minimizing it — and then moves inward, layer by layer, to examine its roots, its lies, and its hold. By the end, the reader arrives not at the absence of difficulty, but at a hard-won, grounded steadiness rooted in the nearness of God.
When the Well Runs Dry
This seven-day study traces the honest path from exhaustion back to wholeness — not by pushing through, but by learning to stop, be known, and receive. By the end, the reader will have moved from naming their depletion to standing on a firmer, quieter ground: one where rest is not a reward to be earned, but a gift already given.
Overcoming Fear: A 7-Day Journey
This plan walks the reader through the full interior journey of fear — from honest acknowledgment, through the roots and weight of it, to a pivotal encounter with God's presence, and finally into the steadiness and courage that come from trust. By the end, the reader will have moved from naming their fear to resting in a faith that is stronger than it.
Letting Go of Control
This seven-day study confronts the deep human instinct to seize control — of outcomes, people, and circumstances — and names it for what it is: a failure of trust in God. Through honest self-examination, the reader moves from recognition of the problem to repentance, and finally to the hard, daily practice of surrender — not as a feeling, but as a choice.
Finding Freedom from Guilt and Shame
This seven-day journey moves the reader from the raw weight of guilt and shame inward — through honest self-examination, the roots of condemnation, and the moment everything changes — toward a settled, embodied freedom. By the end, the reader will not simply know they are forgiven; they will have learned how to live as someone who is.
Trusting God Daily
This seven-day journey begins by honestly naming why trust is hard and moves the reader through the habits, postures, and pivots that make daily trust possible. By the end, the reader won't just understand trust as a concept — they'll have a concrete, practiced way of living it out each morning.
Loneliness & Belonging: A 7-Day Journey
This plan walks honestly into the experience of loneliness — naming it, examining it, and tracing its roots — before pivoting toward the truth of God's relentless nearness. By the end, the reader will have moved from isolation toward a settled, personal sense of belonging that is rooted not in circumstance but in identity and relationship with God.
The Long Work of Waiting
This seven-day study walks honestly through the interior landscape of waiting — from the raw discomfort of unmet longing, through the slow work of surrender, to the discovery that patience is not passive resignation but an active, deepening trust. By the end, the reader will have moved from enduring the wait to understanding what it is quietly forming in them.
Foundations of Faith: A 7-Day Journey
This plan walks a new believer from the very first question — "Who is God, and does He know me?" — through the core pillars of Christian faith, arriving at a grounded, personal sense of belonging to God. By the end, the reader will not just know foundational truths but will feel the warmth and security of a faith that is truly their own.
Understanding Sin: A Seven-Day Reckoning
This plan takes readers on an unflinching journey into the reality, depth, and consequence of sin — not as an abstract theological concept, but as a lived, communal, and personal crisis. Beginning with how sin is universally minimized and ending with the hard demand of repentance and transformation, the group will arrive not at comfort, but at clarity and conviction.
What Is Faith? A 7-Day Journey
This plan takes new believers from honest questions about faith all the way to living it out in everyday life. Starting with the simple, relatable experience of trust, it builds concept by concept — what faith is, what it isn't, what it costs, and what it produces — until the reader arrives not just with a definition in their head, but a posture they can practice with their whole life.
Grace and Works: A Deeper Reckoning
This plan takes the reader beneath the familiar debate between grace and works into the theological and experiential tensions that make the question so enduring. Over seven days, the journey moves from honest self-examination, through doctrinal complexity and inner conflict, to a hard-won and contemplative resolution — not one that dissolves the tension, but one that learns to live faithfully within it.
Learning to Pray: Seven Honest Days
This plan takes the reader from the silence and confusion that often surrounds prayer into a living, practiced rhythm of honest conversation with God. Each day strips away a layer of assumption or avoidance, rebuilding prayer not as a performance but as a posture. By the end, the reader will have not just learned about prayer — they will have begun to do it differently.
The Road to the Cross
This seven-day study traces the interior journey toward the cross — not as a historical timeline, but as a personal reckoning. Each day moves the reader deeper into honest self-examination, from the quiet recognition of their own need, through the weight of what the cross cost, and finally into the stillness of what it means to be truly known and truly loved. By the end, the reader will have not merely studied the cross, but stood before it.
Loving Others Well
This seven-day journey moves from an honest reckoning with why loving others is genuinely hard, through the habits and postures that make love concrete, to a final arrival at love as a chosen, practiced way of life. By the end, small groups will have surfaced real tensions, named specific obstacles, and walked away with a shared vocabulary and practical commitments for loving the people in front of them.
The War Between Pride and Humility
This seven-day study takes the reader on a ruthless inward journey through the anatomy of pride — how it hides, how it destroys, and how it must die. By the end, the reader will not simply know more about humility; they will have been confronted, broken, and invited into a harder and truer way of living.
What Is Salvation? A 7-Day Journey
This plan walks a new believer through the full story of salvation — from the honest weight of human need, through the stunning rescue God provides, to the settled joy of living as someone who has been found. By the end, the reader won't just know what salvation is as a concept — they'll feel its personal, life-changing reality.
The Weight of Your Words
This seven-day study takes you on an honest inward journey through the power and peril of speech — beginning with an unflinching look at what your words reveal about you, moving through the hidden forces that drive them, and arriving at a practical, renewed vision for how you speak every day. By the end, you won't just think differently about language — you'll have a concrete posture to carry into every conversation.
Medium Plans
10–14 daysStanding on Every Promise
This ten-day journey moves the reader from honest doubt and unmet longing, through a deepening understanding of who God is and how He speaks, into a place of grounded, hard-won trust. By the end, the reader will not simply know more about God's promises — they will have examined their own heart, confronted where belief has faltered, and arrived at a steadiness that is rooted in God's character rather than their circumstances.
Faith in Uncertainty
This plan is an honest, interior journey through what it means to trust when clarity is absent. Over ten days, the reader moves from naming the discomfort of uncertainty, through the slow and sometimes painful work of examining their own faith, to a place of grounded — not perfect — trust. By the end, the goal is not certainty achieved, but a deeper, more honest relationship with faith itself.
When Faith Meets the Dark
This ten-day study walks honestly through the interior landscape of doubt — not rushing toward resolution, but pausing at each layer to examine what doubt reveals about the self, the mind, and the heart. By the end, the reader will not have doubt removed, but will have found a way to hold it that no longer feels like spiritual failure.
When Sorrow Becomes the Path
This ten-day study walks honestly through the landscape of suffering — beginning by naming the pain that is already present, slowly descending into its hardest questions, and arriving at a hard-won, unforced stillness. The reader will not be rushed toward resolution but will instead be invited to sit with sorrow long enough to find something true inside it.
Known and Held: Identity & Worth
This ten-day journey begins by honestly naming the weight of self-doubt and the questions we carry about our own value. It moves through the layers of false identity — comparison, performance, failure, and shame — before arriving at a turning point where the reader encounters who God says they are. The final days settle into a hard-won, grounded sense of worth that doesn't depend on circumstance.
Who Is Jesus? A 10-Day Journey
This plan takes new believers on a foundational journey into the identity of Jesus — starting with the honest question of who He is, moving through what He did and why it matters, and arriving at the life-changing reality of a personal relationship with Him. By the end, readers will not only know more about Jesus intellectually, but will feel the warmth of His presence and the confidence of belonging to Him.
Knowing the God Who Cannot Be Known
This plan takes the reader on a slow, rigorous descent into the mystery of who God actually is — moving from the discomfort of human assumptions, through the classical and relational attributes of God, to the unsettling beauty of divine incomprehensibility. By the end, the reader will not have God more neatly defined, but will have learned to stand more honestly before the One who defies every category while remaining intimately near.
Faith in Action: Living What You Believe
This 10-day journey moves small groups from honest self-examination of passive faith through the tensions of real-world obedience, arriving at a shared identity as a community that acts together. Readers will be challenged, stretched, and ultimately equipped — not just to believe differently, but to live differently, together.
Justice and Mercy: The Unbearable Tension
This plan takes small groups on a confrontational journey through one of Scripture's most demanding paradoxes — that God demands justice and extends mercy, and that his people are called to do both without collapsing one into the other. By the end, readers will not have resolved the tension so much as been changed by it, challenged to examine where they have weaponized mercy to avoid justice, or wielded justice to escape the cost of mercy.
The Cost of Becoming: Discipline & Growth
This plan is a ten-day confrontation with the gap between who you are and who God is calling you to become. It does not offer easy encouragement — it demands honest self-examination, exposes the roots of spiritual stagnation, and moves the reader through repentance toward the kind of disciplined life that actually produces lasting change.
Handling Conflict: A 10-Day Journey
This plan takes readers from the raw discomfort of conflict through the hard interior work of self-examination, arriving at a vision of redemptive relationship. Small groups will wrestle together with why conflict feels so threatening, what it reveals about us, and what it looks like to pursue peace without losing truth or self.
Wisdom for Daily Life
This 10-day study invites you to examine how wisdom actually operates in the ordinary rhythms of your life — not as an abstract ideal, but as a daily posture you either embrace or resist. Beginning with an honest look at where you are, the arc moves through the habits, fears, and relationships that shape your choices, pivoting at the moment you recognize that wisdom is less about knowing more and more about choosing differently. By the end, you will have moved from self-awareness to concrete, practiced commitment.
Born in Fire: The Early Church
This ten-day journey traces the early church from its explosive, uncertain birth through its struggles, fractures, and faithful persistence — and arrives at a vision of what it means to belong to one another across every difference. Small groups will find themselves not just studying the first believers, but recognizing their own community in them: the same fears, the same hopes, the same God holding it all together.
From Creation to Covenant
This plan traces the sweeping arc from the first moment of creation to the intimate bonds of covenant — exploring how God moves from making a world to binding himself to the people within it. Over ten days, readers will sit with the tensions between order and chaos, freedom and responsibility, distance and nearness, arriving at a deeper understanding of what it means to be called into relationship with the Creator. The journey is slow and interior, designed not just to inform but to draw the group into honest conversation about belonging, failure, and faithfulness.
Hope in Hard Seasons
This fourteen-day journey begins by honestly naming the weight of hard seasons — the confusion, the grief, the silence — and gradually moves the reader toward a steady, tested hope that is not the absence of pain but the presence of God within it. Each day invites personal reflection and self-examination, pressing the reader to look inward before looking upward. By the end, the reader arrives not at easy answers, but at genuine consolation: a deepened trust in the God who is near in the dark.
Long Plans
21–30 daysPrayer as a Way of Life
This 21-day journey moves the reader from an honest reckoning with their current prayer life — its gaps, its silences, its unspoken doubts — through a slow and interior deepening into what prayer actually is and can be. By the end, the reader arrives not at a method or a discipline, but at a posture: a way of living that is quietly, continuously oriented toward God.
Called Out: Walking with Abraham
This 21-day journey follows Abraham not as a distant hero but as a mirror — a man called out of comfort, repeatedly tested, and slowly reshaped by a God he was still learning to trust. Each day moves inward, asking the reader to sit with the same tensions Abraham faced: the cost of obedience, the silence of waiting, and the strange arithmetic of faith. By the end, the reader arrives not with all answers resolved, but with a deeper, more honest understanding of what it means to walk with God over the long haul.
The Kingdom of God Is at Hand
This 21-day journey takes small groups from a comfortable but vague idea of "the Kingdom" into a full-scale confrontation with what it actually demands. Readers will be unsettled, reoriented, and ultimately called to decide — not just what they believe about the Kingdom, but whether they are willing to live inside it. By the end, the group should feel the weight of arrival: this is not a concept to study, but a reign to submit to.
Through the Fire: Suffering and Redemption
This 21-day journey moves the reader from the raw, unfiltered reality of pain into the deeper territory of meaning, surrender, and ultimately transformation. Rather than rushing toward easy answers, each day invites honest self-examination — sitting with hard questions, tracing the shape of suffering in one's own life, and slowly discovering how redemption is not an escape from pain but a passage through it. By the end, the reader will arrive not at a place where suffering is explained, but where it is no longer the final word.
Judgment and Restoration: The Refiner's Arc
This 21-day study takes the reader through the full theological drama of divine judgment and restoration — not as two separate doctrines, but as a single, inseparable movement of God's character. The reader will be confronted with the weight of sin, the terrifying justice of God, and the radical nature of restoration that emerges only on the far side of reckoning. By the end, the reader will not simply know more about judgment and restoration — they will have been measured by both.
Learning to Live by Faith
This 21-day journey takes the reader from an honest confrontation with the limits of self-reliance, through the difficult and practical work of building a faith that holds under real pressure, to a place of grounded, daily trust. By the end, the reader will have moved from understanding faith as a concept to inhabiting it as a posture — a lived, practiced orientation toward God in ordinary life.
The Throne Above All Things
This 21-day journey moves through the full weight of what it means to live under a sovereign God — beginning with the disorienting questions that sovereignty raises, descending into its tensions and paradoxes, and arriving at a posture of trust that has been tested and refined rather than assumed. By the end, the reader will not have resolved every mystery, but will have been reshaped by sitting inside them long enough to find a different kind of ground to stand on.
The Story of David: A Man After God's Heart
This 25-day study traces the full arc of David's life — from obscure shepherd to celebrated king to broken man restored — as a mirror for the reader's own interior life. Each day slows down at a specific moment in David's story to ask not just what happened, but what it reveals about the human heart and its relationship with God. By the end, the reader will have moved from self-assessment through honest reckoning to a deeper, more resilient understanding of what it means to be known and loved by God.
The Story of Moses: Face to Face
This 25-day study follows Moses from obscurity to mount-top encounter, tracing not just his biography but the brutal, searching questions his life presses against your own. By the end, the reader will have stood at the burning bush, crossed the sea, and been forced to answer: when God calls, what is your excuse?
Walking With Jesus: A 30-Day Journey
This plan traces the life of Jesus as a mirror held up to the reader's own soul — beginning with honest questions about who we are and what we are looking for, moving through the full arc of his ministry, and arriving at a transformed sense of identity and calling. By the end, the reader will not merely know more about Jesus, but will have examined themselves in his light.
The Story of Redemption
This 30-day journey traces the full arc of redemption — from the weight of what is broken, through the long and costly work of restoration, to the arrival at a life genuinely made new. Each day moves inward before moving forward, asking the reader not merely to observe the story of redemption but to locate themselves honestly within it.
Extended Plans
40–60 daysThe Psalms: A Journey Through Emotion
This 40-day study leads the reader through the full emotional landscape of the Psalms — from raw honesty about pain and confusion, through the slow work of trust and transformation, to a settled place of worship and rest. Each day invites personal reflection rather than quick answers, guiding the reader to meet themselves — and God — with greater depth and authenticity by the end.
The Gospel of Matthew: A Deep Walk
This 45-day journey moves through Matthew's Gospel not as a survey but as a sustained encounter — tracing the arc from the ancient promises of Israel to the explosive claim of a risen King who redefines everything. The reader will be invited to sit inside Matthew's theological world, feel the mounting tension between Jesus and the religious establishment, and finally arrive at the Great Commission not as a familiar conclusion but as a genuinely unsettling and transforming charge.
The Whole Story: Genesis to Revelation
This 60-day journey traces the single, unified narrative of Scripture — from creation's first light to the New Jerusalem's eternal dawn — not as a survey of books, but as a deep immersion into the Bible's grand themes of covenant, fracture, redemption, and consummation. The reader will move through the full arc of God's story at a contemplative pace, sitting with its tensions, its silences, and its beauty, arriving at the end not merely more informed, but more formed — with a sense of having inhabited the whole story and found their place within it.