Most of our decisions aren't made badly. They're made on autopilot — shaped by cultural conventions, political instincts, and habits we've never examined. The result is a Christian life that looks mostly like the world around it. This guide gives you a different framework.
The Framework
The Problem Isn't That We Make Bad Decisions. It's That We Make Them Without God.
When Pharaoh saw Israel multiplying, he made a decision. When Moses saw a Hebrew being beaten, he made a decision. Both had legitimate concerns. Neither was responding to God.
The Bible is full of cautionary tales like these — and positive examples too. David, Abram, Josiah, the Hebrew midwives. What distinguished the faithful from the faithless wasn't intelligence or information. It was a theological understanding of the world: God is present. God is relevant. God gets the glory.
Four Ways of Knowing. One Governing Question.
Cognitive psychologist John Vervaeke identifies four ways of knowing: propositional, procedural, perspectival, and participatory. Most Christian decision-making stays at the propositional level. But God-glorifying decisions require all four. This guide shows you how.
The governing question behind every decision: Does this reflect my conviction that God is infinitely more relevant than any other actor or factor?
Seven Biblical Case Studies
Seven Questions to Shape Your Decisions.
Devotional 1 · Genesis 14
So No One Else Can Claim the Glory
When a good outcome might allow someone else to claim credit for what God did, what do you do?
Devotional 2 · Exodus 1–2
Are My Legitimate Concerns Overshadowing God?
Having a legitimate concern doesn’t mean you’re responding to God. Are your concerns driving you, or is God?
Devotional 3 · 1 Samuel 24
How Can I Make God’s Infinite Relevance Clear?
Sometimes restraint, not action, is the most powerful way to demonstrate that God is in charge.
Devotional 4 · 2 Kings 22–23
What If Honoring God Doesn’t Work?
Faithfulness isn’t a means to an end. Josiah honored God knowing it wouldn’t spare Judah. It was still right.
Devotional 5 · Jeremiah 7
What’s Keeping Me from Making God-Glorifying Decisions?
False frameworks make it easy to keep living as we are. What framework might be blinding you?
Devotional 6 · Romans 14–15, 1 Corinthians 9
Have My Rights Become More Important Than Glorifying God?
Paul set aside apostolic rights for the sake of the gospel. We cannot allow freedoms to eclipse faithfulness.
Devotional 7 · 1 Timothy 6:1, Titus 2:5
How Might My Behavior Cause God’s Word to Be Reviled?
Our decisions don’t just affect us. The way we relate to others reflects on God and his word.
The Approach
Resist. Hear. Do.
Resist
A cultural convention or distraction that’s keeping you on autopilot.
Hear
God through a devotional study rooted in a specific biblical passage, with additional readings and podcast or video resources linked throughout.
Do
Something that puts the week’s question into practice — a deliberate decision, a conversation, a concrete act of obedience.
Good For
Individual self-study
Small groups wrestling with how faith intersects with public and political life
Sunday school classes
Anyone who found Serpents and Doves or Christian Resistance challenging and wants a structured follow-up
Length
7 weeks
Format
Framework + devotionals + Bible reading + reflection questions
Cost
Free
Companion Book
Serpents and Doves: Christians, Politics, and the Art of Bearing Witness
What would change if you started every decision with one question? Does this point to and glorify the triune God?
Pair this guide with the Making Everyday Decisions Audio Seminary series or explore the AI Library for guided conversation.