How to know (and do) God's will without losing your mind: the study guide

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Maybe there is a decision sitting in front of you right now, and you have prayed about it for weeks, and the thought underneath the praying is, "What if God has one right answer and I pick the wrong one?" Or maybe there is a temptation you keep losing to, and the thought underneath that one is, "Why can't I just try harder?" I know both thoughts from the inside. This guide is for the person carrying either one, and especially for the person carrying both and assuming they are unrelated.

This is the written companion to the video. The video uses a game called Tsuro to make its points; this guide makes the same points with plainer pictures, so you can read it without ever having seen the game. It goes further than the video can into the Hebrew and Greek, the history, and the passages, and it stops more often to ask what you would do with each piece. Read "The teaching" straight through once with nothing else open. Then come back with a Bible and a pen for "The passages" and "Questions to sit with," one sitting at a time.

Why should you care? Because the two thoughts above have the same engine, and that engine is eating your peace. If I am right about what Paul and David and the Preacher of Ecclesiastes say, then the path out of the frozen decision and the path out of the losing fight are one path, it is short, and what is on the other side of it is better than you have been told. I want to show you that from the text, so that you can check me.