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Study the Bible in order
34 free lessons, each with a clear objective, the passages themselves, historical background, reflection questions and a short knowledge check. Follow a guided path or read whatever you like. No account needed — signing in just remembers where you got to.
Guided learning paths
Start to finish, in a sensible order
New to the Bible
Start here. Five short lessons that give you the map before the detail.
5 lessons · beginner
The Life of Jesus
Six lessons walking from Bethlehem to the empty tomb.
6 lessons · beginner
Old Testament Journey
Eight lessons from creation to the Psalms.
8 lessons · beginner
New Testament Journey
Eight lessons from the nativity to Paul's letters.
8 lessons · beginner
Foundations of Faith
Six lessons on how Christian faith is actually lived.
6 lessons · beginner
People of the Bible
Six character studies, failures included.
6 lessons · beginner
Prayer and Devotion
Four lessons to deepen how you pray.
4 lessons · beginner
Covenants and Promises
Five lessons following the promise through Scripture.
5 lessons · intermediate
All lessons
Bible Foundations
How the Bible Is Organized
The Bible is a library of 66 books written across roughly 1,500 years. Learn how it is arranged and why that arrangement helps you read it well.
8 minbeginner
Old Testament Overview
A single walk through the storyline of the Old Testament, from creation to the return from exile.
10 minbeginner
New Testament Overview
How the Gospels, Acts, the letters and Revelation fit together as one account of Jesus and the church he founded.
10 minbeginner
The Bible Timeline
The major eras of biblical history in order, so passages stop floating free of their moment.
9 minbeginner
How to Study Scripture
A repeatable method for reading a passage carefully: observe, interpret in context, then apply.
9 minbeginner
Major Biblical Covenants
Covenant is the spine of the biblical story. Five of them carry the plot.
10 minintermediate
Old Testament
Creation
Genesis 1-2 introduces God, the world he calls good, and human beings made in his image.
9 minbeginner
Noah and the Flood
Judgment, rescue and the first covenant — read as Genesis tells it rather than as a nursery decoration.
9 minbeginner
Abraham Called by God
One family is called so that all families of the earth might be blessed.
9 minbeginner
Joseph in Egypt
Betrayal, slavery, prison and unexpected authority — and a family kept alive.
9 minbeginner
Moses and the Burning Bush
A reluctant shepherd, a bush that will not burn up, and the name of God.
8 minbeginner
The Exodus and Passover
The defining rescue of the Old Testament, and the meal that keeps it in memory.
10 minbeginner
David: Shepherd and King
Israel's most celebrated king, presented with both his courage and his crimes.
10 minbeginner
The Psalms: Praying the Scriptures
A prayer book with room for praise, grief, anger and confusion.
9 minbeginner
New Testament
The Birth of Jesus
Matthew and Luke tell the nativity from different angles, and both are more political than sentimental.
9 minbeginner
The Sermon on the Mount
The best known and least followed sermon in history — Jesus' description of life under God's reign.
11 minintermediate
The Parables of Jesus
Short stories that reveal and conceal at once, and rarely leave the hearer where they were.
10 minbeginner
The Miracles of Jesus
Signs that point beyond themselves to who Jesus is and what the kingdom looks like.
9 minbeginner
The Crucifixion
What happened, why the New Testament says it happened, and what it accomplished.
10 minintermediate
The Resurrection
The claim the whole New Testament rests on, and what the earliest sources actually say.
10 minintermediate
Acts and the Early Church
How a small group in Jerusalem became a movement across the Roman Empire.
10 minbeginner
Paul and the Epistles
Real letters to real congregations — and how to read them without mistaking mail for a manual.
10 minintermediate
Christian Living
What Is Faith?
Faith in Scripture is trust in a person, not certainty about an outcome.
8 minbeginner
Learning to Pray
The disciples asked for one thing to be taught. Jesus gave them a pattern, not a script.
9 minbeginner
Grace Explained
Unearned favour — and why it produces obedience rather than excusing its absence.
9 minbeginner
Forgiveness
What forgiveness is, what it is not, and why Jesus ties it to being forgiven.
10 minintermediate
Hope in Trials
Scripture does not explain away suffering. It gives lament, presence, and a settled hope.
10 minintermediate
Spiritual Growth
Growth is ordinary, slow and communal — and God is the one who gives it.
9 minbeginner
Bible Characters
Ruth
Loyalty, loss and quiet redemption in the time of the judges.
9 minbeginner
Esther
A Jewish queen in a Persian court, a genocide averted, and a book that never names God.
9 minbeginner
Daniel
Faithfulness in a foreign empire, from a diet decision to a den of lions.
10 minintermediate
Mary, Mother of Jesus
A young woman from an unimportant town who said yes to something enormous.
8 minbeginner
Peter
Impulsive, confident, catastrophically wrong once — and restored.
9 minbeginner
Paul of Tarsus
A persecutor turned apostle whose letters shaped Christian thought more than any other writer's.
10 minintermediate
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