Study & Discussion
Scripture first. Stories for reflection.
Explore the biblical passages behind The Circuit Haven Series, consider faith under pressure, and practice loving our neighbors with conviction and compassion. Use these studies individually or with a group. You do not need to finish the novels to begin.
A note on perspective
These studies accompany novels written from a pre-Tribulation, premillennial Christian perspective. That framework shapes their portrayal of end-times events. Scripture is the authority for the study; the novels are fictional illustrations. Their dates are not predictions. Where Christians interpret a passage differently, examine the text carefully and distinguish its wording from conclusions about its meaning or sequence.
Three study tracks
Track 1 · 14 sessions
Understanding the Last Days
Prophecy, discernment, worship, judgment, and the hope of Christ’s return.
Track 2 · 14 sessions
Faith Under Pressure
Trust, grief, repentance, endurance, and ordinary faithfulness when life becomes difficult.
Track 3 · 14 sessions
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors
Honest witness, hospitality, service, and love across real differences.
Sessions
Showing 42 sessions.
Understanding the Last Days · Session 1
Why study prophecy?
Titus 2:11–14; 2 Peter 3:8–14
How should expectation of Christ’s return change our conduct today?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 2
The gathering of believers
John 14:1–3; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18; 1 Corinthians 15:50–58
What comfort do these promises offer, and how does the pre-Tribulation interpretation understand their timing?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 3
The covenant and its breaking
Daniel 9:24–27; Matthew 24:15–22
What does the text establish about the covenant, desecration, and flight?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 4
Deception that appears beneficial
Matthew 24:4–5, 23–25; 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12
Why are impressive results and supernatural signs insufficient tests of truth?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 5
Worship and allegiance
Exodus 20:1–6; Daniel 3; Revelation 13
When does cooperation with an authority become submission that belongs only to God?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 6
The mark and economic coercion
Revelation 13:11–18; 14:9–12
How are worship, allegiance, and buying and selling connected in these passages?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 7
The witnesses and costly testimony
Revelation 11:1–13
What does their testimony reveal about God’s authority over apparent defeat?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 8
Israel in God’s purposes
Jeremiah 31:31–37; Romans 11:1–36; Zechariah 12:10–13:1
How should God’s promises to Israel shape Christian humility and hope?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 9
The sealed servants and the proclamations
Revelation 7:1–8; 14:1–12
What do these passages say about belonging to God and calling the world to worship Him?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 10
Judgment and the call to repentance
Revelation 8–9; 16
What responses to judgment appear in the text, and what do they reveal about the human heart?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 11
Babylon and the collapse of false security
Revelation 17–18
What happens when wealth, commerce, and power become the foundation of our hope?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 12
Christ’s return and victory
Matthew 24:29–31; Zechariah 14; Revelation 19–20
What makes Christ’s authority different from the powers He defeats?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 13
Resurrection, judgment, and restoration
John 5:24–29; Revelation 20–22
What does Scripture promise—and what questions should we resist answering beyond it?
Understanding the Last Days · Session 14
Watchfulness without date-setting
Matthew 24:36–44; Acts 1:6–11; 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11
How can we live expectantly without claiming knowledge God has withheld?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 1
Faith when rescue is not promised
Daniel 3:16–18; Hebrews 11:32–40
What does obedience look like when deliverance may not come?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 2
Lament and unanswered prayer
Psalm 13; Psalm 88; Habakkuk 1
What can we say to God when we cannot make sense of what happened?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 3
Trust when provision disappears
Habakkuk 3:17–19; Matthew 6:25–34
How can we trust God while taking material needs seriously?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 4
Daily bread and wilderness dependence
Exodus 16; Deuteronomy 8:1–18; Matthew 6:11
What does receiving enough for today teach us about control, gratitude, and remembering?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 5
Fear, courage, and endurance
Psalm 56; James 1:2–8; Hebrews 10:32–39
How can fear be acknowledged without letting it decide our obedience?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 6
Temptation through good intentions
Genesis 3:1–7; Matthew 4:1–11
How can a legitimate need become the reason we accept a wrongful demand?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 7
The limits of competence
Psalm 127:1–2; Proverbs 3:5–7; 2 Corinthians 12:7–10
When does useful skill become an attempt to make ourselves indispensable?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 8
Failure, confession, and repair
Psalm 51; Luke 19:1–10; James 5:16
What distinguishes repentance from explaining why we meant well?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 9
Forgiveness after real harm
Romans 12:17–21; Colossians 3:12–15
How can forgiveness coexist with truth, boundaries, and consequences?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 10
Grief and resurrection hope
John 11:17–44; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
How does Christian hope make room for mourning rather than silence it?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 11
Faith within a divided household
Mark 9:24; 1 Corinthians 7:12–16; 1 Peter 3:1–2
How can family members remain loving when their convictions develop differently?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 12
Rest, worship, and human limits
Exodus 20:8–11; Mark 2:23–3:6
What does rest reveal about our dependence on God and our responsibility toward people?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 13
Remembering what God has done
Deuteronomy 6:4–9; Psalm 78:1–8
How do stories, meals, celebrations, and ordinary habits carry faith across generations?
Faith Under Pressure · Session 14
Hope after survival
Jeremiah 29:4–7; Romans 8:18–25
What does faithful living look like when life continues but remains changed?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 1
Who is my neighbor?
Luke 10:25–37
Whose need do we overlook because helping them complicates our loyalties?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 2
Every person bears God’s image
Genesis 1:26–27; James 3:7–12
How should another person’s dignity govern our speech and treatment of them?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 3
Truth spoken with gentleness
1 Peter 3:15–16; Colossians 4:2–6
How can we explain our hope without turning a person into an argument to win?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 4
Crossing religious and social boundaries
John 4:1–42; Acts 17:16–34
How do we listen carefully and still speak clearly about Christ?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 5
Service without leverage
Matthew 5:43–48; Luke 6:32–36
Would we offer the same help if the recipient never shared our faith?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 6
Hospitality and making room
Romans 12:9–13; Hebrews 13:1–3
What does welcoming someone cost beyond opening a door?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 7
Conscience and disputed practices
Romans 14; 1 Corinthians 8
How can we avoid contempt and coercion while recognizing that some choices are morally consequential?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 8
Listening before answering
Job 2:11–13; James 1:19–20
When does an attempt to comfort become an attempt to silence grief?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 9
Partiality, poverty, and access
James 2:1–17; Leviticus 19:9–18
Who receives less care because they lack status, money, documents, or useful connections?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 10
Shared work across disagreement
Jeremiah 29:7; Romans 12:18; Galatians 6:10
What good can we pursue together without pretending our differences have disappeared?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 11
Authority and faithful refusal
Romans 13:1–7; Acts 5:27–32; Daniel 6
How do we honor legitimate authority while refusing commands that contradict obedience to God?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 12
Systems, records, and personal responsibility
Exodus 23:1–9; Proverbs 11:1; Mark 3:1–6
When a procedure harms someone, what responsibility remains ours?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 13
Dignity for people who choose wrongly
Luke 6:27–36; Romans 12:14–21
Can we name a choice as wrong without becoming satisfied by the person’s suffering?
Living the Gospel Among Our Neighbors · Session 14
Witness through ordinary faithfulness
Matthew 5:13–16; 1 Thessalonians 4:9–12
How do work, generosity, apology, and care make our profession of faith credible?