Storyteller Bible Study

Job is a book of the Bible that many pick up to ask and answer big existential questions—Why does God allow suffering?Is there any purpose in life?If God is good, why do bad things happen?

• Find God in the middle of difficult circumstances.

• Learn to be a kind and compassionate presence to those who are suffering.

• Discover God is with us and for us no matter what we face.

The book commonly known as “Acts” is short for “Acts of the Apostles” because it prominently features Jesus’s called, gifted, and set apart messengers to expand His church.

• Study the work of the Spirit as He empowers the mission of the church.

• Reflect on Jesus’s last words to His disciples before He ascends into heaven.

• Witness the Spirit-empowered boldness and passion available to all disciples of Jesus Christ.

The book of Genesis describes what happened before anything but God existed. It’s the story of how God made everything out of nothing and called it “good.” It shows how we messed everything up and introduces the central problem in Scripture—sin. It also shows how God is intimately involved in redeeming and recreating the broken mess of the world. (6 sessions) 

• Five-day concise reading plans each week

• Open, inviting design  

• Understand the beginning of the Bible’s story and see how it links to all the other stories.

• Begin to see God’s plan to redeem the broken world.

• Find hope in God’s future plans.

Freedom is something everyone wants but few truly experience. It’s also understood differently by various people and cultures. But what does the Bible mean when it says that we’re free? After all, it is “for freedom” that Christ set us free.

The kind of freedom that Jesus offers is not the absence of constraint, or license, or personal autonomy. It’s a deeper and more liberating freedom.

• Reassess what gospel freedom means for you.

• See the benefits of the gospel applied to your life through a popular and easy-to-understand New Testament letter.

• Experience adoption and the freedom that comes from knowing that you are a fully loved and accepted child of God.

• Understand that there is no other gospel than the one Jesus offers, and that’s a good thing for all of us.

Many of the stories of the Bible involve seismic events—worldwide floods, warring kings, an entire people being taken into exile. But other stories are small and personal. Tucked into the beginning of the Old Testament is one such story in the book of Ruth.

When we meet Ruth, her husband has died, and she is traveling with her mother-in-law to a land that is not her own. Though the circumstances seem dire, they are not beyond God’s control.

• See God’s faithfulness in circumstances that feel like famine.

• Examine the theme of redemption and providence through an easy-to-understand story.

• Trust God when hope is hard to find.

• Understand waiting not as a detour off the path but part of God’s kindness and plan for you.

The Gospel of John is one of four books that describes the life of Jesus. John’s gospel is organized in two big divisions, the book of the signs and the book of the suffering servant.

The first part introduces us to Jesus through the lens of 7 key miracles or signs that Jesus does to disclose His identity and prove His divinity. These signs are meant to show us who Jesus is and what He is like. They disclose to us what He cares about and point us back to God.

• Study the first 12 chapters of John

• Understand the purpose of miracles and see how they are signs that point us to a savior.

• Dive deeper and understand key moments from Jesus life and ministry for the first time.

• Examine the book of John in an easy-to-read fashion following the flow of the book.