Faith and the Christian Life

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.

Most Christian teaching on conflict skips straight to forgiveness. But Scripture takes the wound seriously first — and the New Testament knows that not every relationship can or should be repaired. This plan walks through personal conflict the way Jesus and the apostles actually did: honest about hurt, slow to escalate, willing to name sin, and clear-eyed about when reconciliation is not yet safe.

If God is good and God is all-powerful, why is there cancer? Why was there the Holocaust? Why did the child die? This is the oldest objection in the world, and it is more than a debating point — for many it is the moment faith breaks. This plan walks slowly through Scripture's strange refusal to give the kind of answer modern philosophy demands, and through the answer it does give: a God who, on the cross, takes the question into himself.

A 14-day exploration of the most divisive issues in modern public life, read through the lens of Scripture rather than partisan platforms. Discover what the left gets right, what the right gets right, what both get wrong, and what the Bible actually teaches.

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.

Over 14 days, wrestle with Bonhoeffer's radical call to follow Jesus — from the famous distinction between cheap and costly grace, through the Sermon on the Mount, to the meaning of the cross and Christian community. Written from a prison cell and a life laid down.

A 7-day beginner-friendly guide to thinking biblically about civic life. Learn how to pray for leaders, vote with conscience, disagree without dividing, and hold earthly citizenship loosely while living as citizens of heaven.

Over 14 days, explore the character and attributes of God through J.I. Packer's beloved classic 'Knowing God.' Move from knowing about God to truly knowing Him — His majesty, love, wrath, grace, and sufficiency.