Books with Companion Study Guides
Need ideas for resources to use in your small group, Sunday school class, or book club? These books are easy solutions when you pair them with their accompanying study guide—discussion questions and conversation starters are right there at your fingertips. Whether you're a leader or participant, preparing for your group meeting has never been easier!
View all Bible study series or browse resources by your group's favorite discussion topics below: discipleship, leadership, the Enneagram, friendship and fellowship, evangelism and outreach, justice, and fiction.
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Discipleship
Knowing God
22-Session Study Guide, 5-Session Bible Study
For half a century, J. I. Packer's classic has helped Christians discover the wonder, glory, and joy of knowing God. Use this book with the chapter-by-chapter study guide and companion Bible study to know God more clearly through rich discussions and Scripture meditation.
Basic Christianity
6 Sessions
Who is Jesus Christ, and what does it mean for us? This classic book and companion Bible study guide from John Stott present a biblical portrait of Christ, considering our need for salvation, how we should respond to the gospel, and what it looks like to live as a Christian.
Long Obedience in the Same Direction
6 Sessions
Our society idealizes quick results and stimulating experiences. The Christian life, however, calls us to be disciples committed to a long journey of faith. Use this book and study guide from Eugene Peterson to find encouragement in the Psalms to press on with hope, repentance, patience, and joy.
A Fragile Stone
9 Sessions
This book and study guide by Michael Card explore the dynamic life of the apostle Peter, providing a model for our own transforming relationship with Jesus. Learn more about Peter’s life and how the impetuous fisherman of the Gospels was transformed into the pivotal leader of the early church.
Discover Your Gifts
12 Sessions
Discover twelve different kinds of giftings with examples of how each can be used in church, family, work, and society. Use this book and workbook together to grow in your understanding and use of your own gifts and become better equipped to recognize and unleash the gifts of others.
Hearing God
6 Sessions
How do we hear God's voice? Dallas Willard offers rich spiritual insight into how we can hear God's voice clearly and develop an intimate relationship with him. Using this book and study guide, you will encounter what Scripture says about listening to God and what it means for you today.
Leadership
Lead Like It Matters to God
8 Sessions
Richard Stearns shares seventeen transformative leadership values he has learned in his corporate and ministry career. Leaders who use this book and study guide will learn how to embody these ideals in order to shape institutions, influence culture, and create healthy workplaces.
Tempered Resilience
8 Sessions
Tod Bolsinger explores qualities of adaptive leadership and resilience within churches and nonprofit organizations. This book and study guide offer conversation starters for self-discovery as well as practices that leaders and their teams can take on together to lead through change.
Strong and Weak
6 Sessions
Jesus blended authority and vulnerability to use his power for the benefit of others. To truly flourish, Andy Crouch argues, we must follow Jesus' example. Use this book and study guide to discover what Scripture says about power, vulnerability, humble leadership, and flourishing communities.
Enneagram
The Road Back to You
5 Sessions
Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile share their Enneagram wisdom and help you grow in knowledge of yourself, compassion for others, and love for God. Witty and story-filled, use this book and study guide in your group or individually to get a peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types.
The Path Between Us
6 Sessions
Can the Enneagram help us have more loving, mature, and compassionate relationships? This book, study guide, and journal from Suzanne Stabile will guide you into deeper Enneagram insights about your own type and others’ personalities for more life-giving relationships.
The Journey Toward Wholeness
6 Sessions
How can we achieve lasting transformation in our lives? Using the wisdom of the Enneagram, this book and study guide from Suzanne Stabile opens the concept of three Centers of Intelligence and how they can guide you on a path to reducing fear, improving relationships, and finding wholeness.
Friendship & Fellowship
True Companions
5 Sessions
How do we cultivate the life-long relationships we long for? In this book and study guide, psychologist Kelly Flannagan shares how groups, couples, and individuals can show up in our most important relationships and enjoy the satisfying, transformational love of companionship.
The Next Worship
5 Sessions
Our destiny is to worship together as the multiethnic, multilingual family of God. In this book and companion Bible study, innovative worship leader Sandra Maria Van Opstal dives into biblical perspectives on how worship relates to diversity, reconciliation, hospitality, unity, and more.
Evangelism & Outreach
How to Give Away Your Faith
6 Sessions
In this book and Bible study, Paul Little offers real-world examples and helpful advice that show how friendly and natural evangelism can really be. Use them together to deepen your understanding and strengthen your confidence as you talk with others about the best news of all.
True Story
5 Sessions
Is the gospel really good news? What was the central message of Jesus, and how can Christians share it effectively with others? Use James Choung's book and Bible study with your group to discover the four movements of the gospel's Big Story and what they mean for living and sharing the Christian faith.
Justice
Good News About Injustice
5 Sessions
God's heart for justice resonates through Scripture. This five-session book and companion Bible study from Gary Haugen will guide your group deeper into biblical texts and themes that will help you understand what God's Word says about justice and what it means for you today.
The Heart of Racial Justice
5 Sessions
Pursuing racial justice and reconciliation begins with following Scripture and the voice of the Holy Spirit. This book and companion Bible study from Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson offer a model of racial reconciliation, social justice, and spiritual healing that creates both individual and communal transformation.
The Hopeful Neighborhood
6 Sessions
When Christians pursue the common good of our neighborhoods, we bring hope to the world, credibility to the church, and glory to God. Using research from the Barna Group and Lutheran Hour Ministries, this book and field guide from Don Everts offer a simple, powerful process for blessing your own neighborhood.
Fiction
Sensible Shoes
12 SessionS
Sharon Garlough Brown's bestselling novel Sensible Shoes is meant to bring spiritual transformation in community. Women's groups can use the book and study guide to practice the spiritual disciplines introduced in the book. A leader's guide and resource bundles for leaders or participants offer additional formats for using the 12-week curriculum or planning a retreat based on the content.
Two Steps Forward
8 Sessions
The women of Sensible Shoes encounter new adventures and roadblocks in their spiritual journeys in Two Steps Forward. In the book's companion study guide you'll find daily Scripture readings, reflection questions, and spiritual practices, as well as discussion questions and suggested practices for groups to try together.
Barefoot
12 Sessions
The spiritual journey takes unexpected turns for the women in Barefoot, the third book of the Sensible Shoes series. Having been challenged to persevere in hope, can they now embrace the joy of complete surrender? Use the novel and study guide to invite your group into prayer and spiritual practices in community.
An Extra Mile
8 Sessions
The women of Sensible Shoes are navigating both deep joy and devastating loss in An Extra Mile, the final book in the Sensible Shoes series. Journey with the women through the seasons of Lent and Easter using the book and study guide to dive deeper into key spiritual practices from the book.
Shades of Light
6 Sessions
In this novel from Sensible Shoes author Sharon Garlough Brown, Wren Crawford is a social worker whose struggles with anxiety and depression are starting to overcome her. Groups are invited to use this book and study guide to move beyond pat answers into an experience of hope that illuminates the darkness.
Feathers of Hope
8 Sessions
In this followup to Shades of Light, Wren Crawford and Katherine Rhodes share the journey as companions in sorrow and hope. With this novel and accompanying study guide, groups will not only be able to attend Katherine's final retreat sessions at New Hope but also encounter old and new friends along the way.
The Singer
8 Sessions
Calvin Miller retells the story of Jesus through an allegorical poem about a Singer whose song could not be silenced. This book and companion Bible study guide will engage your imagination and deepen your understanding as you encounter Jesus in the pages of the Gospels.
