In addition to my published Bible studies, I’ve posted all kinds of Bible studies you can read or print from this blog. I’ve arranged them according to topic below. Just click on the links to see the studies!
Blogging and Ministry:
- Blogging and Ministry Series – This is a series I did back in the early days of my blog. Click on the link to see a list of posts in the series.
- Bible Study: When Ministry and Blogging is Hard
- Bible Study: Temptations of Blogging and Ministry
- Bible Study: When God Asks You to Do the Impossible
- Bible Study: When You Feel Like Giving Up
- This was a series on how to break free from idolatry with journaling exercises. Click on the steps at the end of the post to see the whole series. The first step links to a quiz to help you know if you have any idols.
Insecurity
- Insecurity Bible Study
- When You’re Not Good Enough
- The “I Want to Be Great” (Or At Least Avoid Being a Loser) Bible Study
New Year’s Resolution Bible Study Series
Overcoming Temptation Bible Study
Renewing of the Mind Bible Study Series
- How to Renew Your Mind
- Bible Study: Working with God on Your Goal
- Bible Study: God’s View of Your Goal
- Bible Study: When God Doesn’t Change You Instantly
- Bible Study: Spiritual Warfare and Your Goal
- Renewing of the Mind Workshop: Week 1
- Renewing of the Mind Workshop: Week 2
- Renewing of the Mind Workshop: Week 3
- Renewing of the Mind Workshop: Week 4
- For a summary of the posts in this series, click here. (This series is tied in with the New Year’s study.)
- If you’d like a book on this topic, check out The Renewing of the Mind Project.
Trials Bible Studies:
- Keeping the Faith in the Storms of Life Bible Study
- When Life is Hard: A Bible Study on Trials
- When Life or Ministry is Hard
- Hope in God Bible Study
When God Asks You to Do the Impossible.
- To see individual free Bible studies, click on the weight loss study tab.
Note: You are welcome to print any of the Bible studies you find on this blog to use with a class except for the weight loss Bible studies. My only request is that you include the website (www.barbraveling.com) or author info on the Bible study. If you want a weight loss Bible study and finances aren’t an issue, I’d recommend Taste for Truth (see below) as it offers more comprehensive help for weight loss than the free Bible studies.
Barb’s Published Bible Studies
Taste for Truth: A 30 Day Weight Loss Bible Study is a 30-day Bible study that will help you follow your weight loss or maintenance boundaries. It’s focused on the lies that make you overeat, body image, and the weight loss process. I wrote this Bible study to go along with the questions and Bible verses in I Deserve a Donut, which is also available as a free app. I often recommend that people do this Bible study first and then Freedom from Emotional Eating, but I have others tell me they liked the opposite approach.
Freedom from Emotional Eating: A Weight Loss Bible Study The comment I get most often with this book is that yes, it helped me with eating, but it helped me even more with letting go of my negative emotions. Although there is material on boundaries and breaking free from the control of food, most of the book is devoted to learning how to let go of negative emotions. Because of that, this is a study that can be helpful for anyone, whether you struggle with emotional eating or not.
Freedom from Procrastination Bible Study: This Bible study offers both spiritual and practical help for overcoming procrastination. It’s filled with Bible studies, to-do lists, practical tips, and renewing activities to help you develop the habit of finishing your to-do list each day and/or following through on your goals.
Rally: A Personal Growth Bible Study This is a Bible study about going to God for help with regular life in a way that will help you grow. This would be a good Bible study to do if you’re going through a trial.
James is the perfect study for someone who wants to grow closer to God. Each of the 20 lessons includes questions you can use to apply that day’s Bible passage to something that’s going on in your life right now. Topics include comparison, anger, trials, temptation, envy, spiritual attack, taking risks for God, and making God first. The study is application-oriented, and each lesson includes prayer suggestions to encourage you to visit with God about life.
Note: All of these Bible studies can be done at home alone or with a group. You can find a leader’s guides for each Bible study here: Leader’s Guides for Bible Studies and Books.
Thank you for your site! This is great stuff! Just what i needed. Posted to my Facebook to pass on.
Thanks! I appreciate your sharing it on Facebook!
Hi Barb! I’m working through the Renewing of the Mind workshop right now. I have many areas of my mind that need to be renewed, but I’m focusing on my eating right now. I did the recommended reading and am now on Day 4 of week 1. But I also purchased your Freedom From Emotional Eating workbook and would like to get your Taste of Truth workbook also. Are there many differences between the three? Thank you for such a practical study!
Hi Betty, Good to hear from you! Yes, there are differences between the three studies. Freedom from Emotional Eating is focused mostly on letting go of negative emotions and going to God for help with trials. It covers anger, worry, discontentment, stress, and a few other things. It overlaps a bit with Taste for Truth in that the first chapter of Freedom from Emotional Eating talks a lot about overeating and how to break free from the stronghold of emotional eating.
Taste for Truth focuses more on eating – how we feel about boundaries, food, body image, etc. If your renewing of the mind project is eating, I would start with Taste for Truth.
The renewing of the mind project focuses more on trying out different renewing of the mind techniques – different ways of looking at life from a biblical perspective. Hope that helps!
This helps a lot! I am going to finish the online Renewing the Mind project because I think it’s going to give me a good foundation and understanding of the process. Then I’ll do the Freedom From Emotional Eating because I have a lot of strongholds in my emotions. And then we’ll see where God leads from there. Thanks so much!
You’re welcome! That sounds like a good plan!
Hi Barb, I am facilitating a live group at my church in Ventura, CA using “Taste for Truth”. I had the first meeting and ladies seem excited. I have downloaded the leader’s guide and is very helpful! Do you have any tips or feedback like “lessons learned” from other live groups? This would really help me!!
You know, I don’t know if I’ve ever asked anyone that! I don’t always know when people are doing studies. It would be fun to know. I wonder if you would be able to find any of that on the Amazon reviews for the book? If you’d like me to look, let me know and I can look through the comments to see if I see anything about lessons learned. I do know people have written me to say that the study has helped them grow closer to God, lose weight, and think differently about food and boundaries, if that helps!
I came across your website via my recent Kindle purchase of your book, The Renewing of the Mind Project. Someone with deep-seated emotional/mental issues, it was good to find help with trust in Scripture. I look forward to going through this site, reading the materials (and the eBook), and learning more to help bring the inner healing of the past which is desperately needed.
Hi Joe, I pray that these resources will be helpful to you. I know it can take a long time to heal from some of those emotional turmoils. I’ve heard that many Christian counselors also use the renewing of the mind and the Bible to help people in their counseling sessions, so that might be another helpful resource.
Within just the first seven days of your A Taste for Truth Bible Study, there are five things that I see, and consider them to be fundamentals for making weight loss effective. With deeper, personal study, I’m considering offering these five fundamentals as part of a challenge group to women who are seriously ready to finally be done with the struggle of weight and food. I also plan to recommend your study to them once the five day challenge is over. In fact I plan to recommend that they do the study before they even consider going on another diet fad. Coming across this study has definitely changed my life. I have discovered some things that I never really paid much attention to before. This study will now and forever be my recommendation to anyone who is truly serious about their life and health God’s way.
I hope that this is alright for me to do?
Hi Erica! Did I ever answer this by email? I’m sorry, I’m behind on my emails and blog comments and now I can’t remember which ones I answered!
I have 20 free Bible Studies for women on my website to download and print. http://melanienewton.com/free-bible-studies/Feel free to link to them on your blog and website. Thanks.
Hi Barb, I was wondering if I need to be on Wi-Fi when I use I want a Donut app?
Hi Audrey! No, you don’t need to be on Wi-Fi. You do need to have a smart phone though. Let me know if you have any other questions!