An inductive study on anxiety, fear, and the peace of Christ in six sessions of 75 to 90 minutes, written for a leader who is not a theologian. It is the study for the person who worries, and then carries a second weight for worrying at all, and it runs from the upper room to Gethsemane to Easter evening. Session 1 sends the group hunting for the three places John uses the word troubled of Jesus himself, so the room learns before anything else that the sinless One felt it too. Everyone writes an answer to the question of whether anxiety is a sin, seals it in an envelope, and does not get it back until Session 4, where Gethsemane answers it with the Church's own teaching on the passions and on what fear does to responsibility. Along the way the group traces one Greek word from a mountain to Martha's kitchen to a prison cell, and takes home one concrete practice every week. It ends at the two verses most often turned against anxious Christians, handed back as promises. Each session carries a Leader Preparation Guide, a Discussion Guide, and a Leader Reference Card listing every passage in order. Scripture follows the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. Leader guides and take-home sheets for every session.
Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled runs 6 sessions. Every session comes with a complete leader's preparation guide and a printable take-home sheet for the people in the room, and the full text of each night can be read on a phone from the list below. All of it is free to download, print, and share, with no sign up and no cost.
How these studies were created, including our use of AI
Every session below carries three links. Read opens the full session on a phone, Sheet downloads that night's participant take-home sheet, and Leader opens the leader's guide for that session. Nothing is held back and nothing asks for an email address.
You do not need to be a theologian to lead Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled. The leader's guide carries the questions, the answers, and the background, so the group can discover the text together. There is a short guide to hosting a Bible study if this is your first one, and a set of six questions that will help you choose a study if you are still deciding.