Our class just finished this recent release by Amy-Jill Levine. If you’re not familiar with AJ, you should be! She’s a professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, and let’s just say I’d love to be in one of her classes! The next best thing is to study one of her books, and The Gospel of Mark is worth the read.
Read More & DownloadHoly Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others – Barbara Brown Taylor
If you’ve been involved in a Christian small group for any period of time, invariably someone requests that you do a lesson series on world religions. My Sunday School class has done several studies, most recently using Barbara Brown Taylor’s Holy Envy.
Read More & DownloadMaking Sense of the Bible: Rediscovering the Power of Scripture Today – Adam Hamilton
I wanted to make my first series a good one, and you don’t get much better than Adam Hamilton. His Making Sense of the Bible: Rediscovering the Power of Scripture Today does a great job of presenting scripture in a modern and still sacred context. You’ll want to allocate a fair amount of time for this one. It took our class eighteen sessions, but they were good ones!
Read More & DownloadWelcome to Studies on Faith!
My name is Mark Schneider, and I’ve been facilitating small Christian group studies for decades. As such, I’ve constructed lesson plans for dozens of spiritual books, scripture passages, and social reflections. These bespoke plans served me well in leading thought-provoking discussions with the goal of groups growing closer to each other and closer to God.
It seems a shame to develop lesson plans only to be used once, so I created this site to share what I hope are ready-to-use lessons for some of my favorite studies. I encourage you to use them as-is, or tailor them for your specific purposes. No attribution is necessary, but I would appreciate comments on which studies worked well for you (or not).
Also – let me know if you have any suggestions for additional courses of study.
Your brother in Christ,
Mark