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Find Your Margin.
Find Your Margin.
By How I Feel
Start with where you are today. Choose a study based on your current mental, emotional, spiritual, or energy state—without needing to know exactly what you want to study first.
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For the days when you want to spend time with God, but your mind doesn’t have much left to give. These studies are designed to reduce the mental load with simple instructions, manageable Scripture, and activities that don’t require intense concentration. Come as you are, do what you have capacity for, and let a little time in the Word still be meaningful.
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For when something has caught your attention and you want to follow the question. These studies give you room to wonder, investigate, ask questions, notice details, and explore Scripture without already needing to know where your curiosity will lead. Start with the question and see what you discover along the way.
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For the moments when studying isn’t necessarily the goal—you simply need to be near God. Whether you’re overwhelmed, uncertain, discouraged, disconnected, or just longing for Him, these studies bring the focus back to who God is, what He has said, and spending intentional time in His presence.
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For when there’s something happening inside of you that needs somewhere to go. These studies help you slow down and examine your thoughts, emotions, experiences, decisions, or circumstances alongside Scripture. You won’t be asked to ignore what you’re feeling; instead, you’ll use the Word to help you understand it, challenge it when necessary, and decide what to do with it.
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For when you need a pen, some space, and time with God. These studies use guided writing to help you interact with Scripture, work through questions, record prayers, recognize patterns, reflect on what God is teaching you, and put thoughts into words. You don’t have to be a “journaler”—the prompts will give you somewhere to start and help you go deeper from there.
By What I Want
Start with what you want to understand. Choose a study based on the biblical knowledge, connection, topic, or Scripture you want to explore.
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For when you want to understand the Bible from the ground up and strengthen what you know. These studies focus on the foundational truths, concepts, people, events, and context that make the rest of Scripture easier to understand. Whether you’re new to studying the Bible or want to fill in gaps in what you’ve learned, this is a place to build knowledge piece by piece and understand not only what Scripture says, but why it matters.
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For when you want to see how different parts of the Bible fit together. These studies trace parallels, repeated patterns, themes, promises, prophecy, fulfillment, and connections between passages that may seem unrelated at first. Follow an idea across Scripture, compare what happened then with what happens later, and begin seeing the Bible as one connected story rather than a collection of separate books.
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For when there’s one thing you want to understand better. Choose a word, person, place, theme, event, question, or biblical concept and give it your full attention. These studies help you move beyond a single verse by examining context, related Scriptures, definitions, background, and recurring ideas so you can develop a fuller understanding of the subject.
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For when you want to stop jumping between individual passages and spend intentional time inside one book of the Bible. These guided reading plans take you through Scripture in manageable sections while helping you notice context, themes, changes, important moments, and connections along the way. Instead of simply finishing a reading plan, the goal is to understand the book you just read.
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For when you don’t just want the answer—you want to understand how everything underneath it works. These studies give you room for deeper research through historical and cultural context, original-language exploration, cross-references, literary structure, theology, and detailed observation. Take your time, follow the evidence, ask harder questions, and see what becomes visible when you stay with the text longer.
By How I Learn
Start with the way information makes the most sense to you. The Scripture stays central—you simply choose a study approach that helps you understand, process, and retain it.
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For when information makes more sense once you can actually see how it fits together. These studies use diagrams, timelines, maps, charts, comparisons, color, visual relationships, and other tools to turn information into something you can follow with your eyes. Instead of relying only on paragraphs of explanation, you’ll be able to see patterns, sequences, relationships, and the bigger picture of what Scripture is communicating.
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For when too much information at once makes it harder to understand what you’re studying. These studies take larger biblical ideas and divide them into smaller, clearly defined pieces with straightforward instructions and an intentional order. You’ll know what to look at first, what comes next, and why each step matters—giving you structure without removing the opportunity to think deeply.
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For when you learn best by figuring things out instead of simply being told the answer. These studies give you something to investigate through questions, comparisons, cross-references, context clues, patterns, and research. You’ll be encouraged to follow what catches your attention, test what you think you’re seeing against Scripture, and build conclusions from what you discover.
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For when understanding comes after you’ve had time to work through what you just learned. These studies create room to slow down, reflect, explain ideas in your own words, answer questions, make connections, and consider how Scripture applies to your life. Rather than immediately moving to the next passage, you’ll spend time making sense of what you read and identifying what you want to carry with you.
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For when creativity is part of how you think, understand, and communicate. These studies invite you to interact with Scripture through music, songwriting, poetry, drawing, painting, photography, design, movement, storytelling, or another creative medium. The goal isn’t simply to make something inspired by a verse—the creative process becomes part of the study itself, helping you examine the text, interpret what you’re seeing, and express what you’ve discovered in a form that makes sense to you.
Our Process
Start With Where You Are
How am I showing up today?
Choose By Where I Am when your current mental, emotional, spiritual, or energy state is driving what you need. You don’t have to prepare yourself first. Start exactly where you are.
Start With What I Want’
What do I want to understand?
Choose By What I Want when you already have a direction. Build your biblical foundation, follow connections through Scripture, study something specific, walk through a book, or go deeper.
Start With How You Learn
How will this make the most sense to me?
Choose By How I Learn when the way information is presented matters most. See it, break it down, investigate it, process it, or create something from what you discover.
Change Your Mind
You’re not locked into one way of studying.
Your needs can change from day to day—and your Margin can change with them. Try another path, choose a different depth, or revisit Scripture in a new way. The goal isn’t to complete The Margin. The goal is to use it.