Charles Spurgeon

The prosperity gospel says God will heal you if your faith is strong enough. Many ordinary churches teach a quieter version of the same idea. But Paul prayed three times for his thorn to be removed, and three times the answer was no. This plan is for Christians whose bodies, minds, or families are not getting better — and who suspect Scripture has something more honest to say to them than they have been hearing.

Christians have been arguing about other Christians since the day after Pentecost. Some splits have been faithful; many have been petty; most have been a mix. This plan walks through the New Testament's hard-won wisdom about church conflict, the long history of division and reform, and the practical question many believers wrestle with privately: when do you stay, when do you leave, and how do you tell the difference?

Roughly a third of the Psalms are laments. The book of Lamentations exists. The cross itself is wrapped in a psalm of complaint. Yet many modern churches sing only happy songs and treat sorrow as a problem to be solved on the way to victory. This plan recovers the biblical discipline of lament — not as despair, not as venting, but as a peculiarly Christian act of faith addressed to a God who can take it.

Acts 17:26 says God made every nation 'from one blood.' That truth is essential, but it is not enough. The American church has had a long, ugly relationship with race — slavery, segregation, the silence of evangelical leaders during the civil rights movement, and the more recent fracturing over critical theory and 'wokeness.' This plan picks up where the basic biblical case for unity ends and walks into the harder territory: history, repentance, the limits of color-blindness, and what reconciliation actually requires when the wound is generational.

Jesus warned his disciples that false prophets would do real signs. Paul said even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. The most concerning thing Scripture says about counterfeit spirituality is that it can be impressive — convincing, even to the elect. This plan walks through the New Testament's tools for evaluating Christian leaders, viral movements, healing claims, and the long, painful list of teachers who started faithful and ended elsewhere.

Trace the complex and often painful relationship between Christianity and slavery — from the Bible's radical vision of human dignity to the abolitionists who fought to end the slave trade, and the unfinished work that remains.

Is God a capitalist or a socialist? Neither — but He has much to say about wealth, poverty, generosity, work, and government's role. The Bible's economic ethic affirms private property, demands radical generosity, condemns both laziness and oppression, and holds the wealthy to a terrifying standard.

Trace the story of Christianity's global expansion from William Carey to the Majority World church. Meet the pioneers, confront the failures, and discover how the gospel reached the ends of the earth — often in ways no one expected.

Revelation has been hijacked twice — once by left-behind prophecy charts, and once by political apocalypticism that reads every news cycle as the final battle. This plan recovers Revelation for what it actually is: a pastoral letter to suffering churches, a brutal critique of empire and wealth, and a vision of God's renewed creation that should make Christians less politically frantic, not more.