Get the Clarity Your Life Deserves

As a follower of Jesus, you want to live a life that glorifies him and is faithful to his Word. But sometimes it can feel as if the Bible isn't relevant to your life, can't it? God seems distant, relationships feel shallow, church lacks connection, and you struggle with anxiety and sins.

The Bible's nice, but its principles feel too hard to apply to daily life.

If this bugs you as much as it should, I'd like to help you get past that frustration, and take the right steps to finally understand God's message to you.

But there is a much larger story that's been happening long before we showed up on the scene. And it continues long after we leave the scene.

The brutal truth is without understanding this story, we're bound to continue feeling confused. Without looking at things from God's perspective, he'll only keep feeling distant, we'll keep feeling stuck.

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I used to think of scripture as a sort of roadmap for life. I'd read it to find where I needed to go and what I needed to do.

The problem, though, was that there were a lot of things I faced in my life that I couldn't find specific direction for in scripture.

What do I do if the girl I'm head-over-heels for turns me down? Why do Christians fight with each other so much? Where is God when my church splits, friendships disintegrate, or Mom dies? 

These are the frustrations I wrestled with that caused me to dig into his Word in a deeper way than ever before. I knew I couldn't go on hoping blindly for something to change, so I decided to see what he had to say - to see if he's planning for anything to change.

And do you know what I discovered?

I discovered the Bible isn't a roadmap but a story from Creator God to his creation: you and me. I realized I was only looking at one part of the story, one act in the play.

But, as N.T. Wright likes to put it, there are six acts in the grand play God is working out in this life. As I got to know the other five, I better understood the one I was currently in.

God tells us a beautiful story in scripture which we could break down into a six-act play. Each act builds upon the one that came before and continues the narrative to achieve the resolution we find in the final act. If we want to make sense of life, we need to understand the story God is telling through it.

The Making Sense of Life Journey is a five-module online course where we spend each module focusing on one of the first five acts. Because the sixth act deals with stuff yet to come, we only spend the final week of the course looking at it.

Week 1 - a video introducing the act, and a Question and Response article answering the top questions people face around the act (i.e. why does evil exist, which doctrines are essential for the church).

Weeks 2 & 3 - a video and article unpacking one of the questions from the week before even more with a weekly assignments to help you put to words your own questions and story.

Week 4 - a video fleshing-out how this section of the story affects us today, a podcast interview with another Bible teacher, pastor, or mentor of mine delving into further questions and issues we haven't yet addressed, and a final assignment guiding you through where to go in light of what you learned that month.

If you feel uncertain about life in any way but want to follow God and do what's right, this course is for you.

When you join The Making Sense of Life Journey, you join a tribe - a community. You are not alone on this journey. Together we can move beyond disillusionment and a sense of being stuck to living with purpose, passion, and clarity. 

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Most of us, when feeling disillusioned, don't trust anything. We don't trust anyone.

Our situation feels so unique, so beyond anything anyone else has been through that we don't really give others the chance to speak into our lives.

We vent. We look for sympathy from others. But we don't stop and truly listen to what they have to say - especially God.

The people that find clarity in life and lasting purpose realize that while they certainly have a unique journey they are taking, it still exists within a much larger story than themselves. For them, moving beyond confusion to living with clarity and passion means getting to know the greater story and where they fit in it all.

Each of us will live out of someone’s narrative.

It may be our own, but how can we know our narrative is true?

Or we could live out of other popular narratives of this world. We still have to ask the same question we’re asking about God’s narrative: “Did someone just make the story up?”

We address questions like this and more inside the course, but here are four quick reasons I am convinced God’s narrative is not made up by men:

1. Other ancient texts tell of similar events as scripture, but the character of the gods in those texts resemble humanity more than the character of the God of the Bible. If I made up a story, it wouldn't have been the biblical one.

2. The Bible has gone through excruciating events over a long period of time, many of which could have wiped it off the face of the earth. Yet, it has been preserved for us better than any other work of ancient literature.

3. The Bible is coherent with itself in spite of having been written by many different authors over many, many years.

4. The Biblical narrative jives with my personal experience and has the most compelling reason for pain and confusion.

The Making Sense of Life Journey doesn't promise to solve all your problems. We do promise to give you the space to process your problems. This course will get you going in the right direction. It will keep you from feeling stuck and alone and help you live without confusion.

Here are a few other pros and cons of this online course: