Experiencing God in Everyday Life: A Journey Toward Spiritual Maturity is an 8-session Bible study for teens by Mike Blackaby and Daniel Blackaby. Designed for students in grades 7–12, this study helps students understand that many of us first meet God in powerful mountaintop moments, but the Christian life is lived on a daily journey of learning to experience God and follow Jesus.

Through small-group sessions, five days of personal study each week, Scripture engagement, reflection questions, and practical spiritual habits, students will discover that God invites them to take part in His story daily as He pursues His eternal purposes in the world. The study encourages teens to recognize God’s presence and activity in ordinary routines, align their daily rhythms with Him, and respond with both major leaps of faith and small steps of faithfulness in everyday moments.

This gospel-centered student Bible study is ideal for youth groups, student ministries, small groups, discipleship groups, new believers, seekers, and teens who want to experience God not only on the mountaintops but in all the places in between.

Key Features:

• 8-session Bible study for teens
• Designed for students in grades 7–12
• Includes small-group teaching and discussion
• Includes five days of personal study per session
• Focuses on the 8 realities of experiencing God in everyday life
• Helps students develop practical spiritual rhythms and habits
• Includes Scripture reading, reflection questions, and personal application
• Includes a Leader Guide in the back of the Bible study book
• Includes a Habit Glossary to support ongoing spiritual growth
• Biblically rooted and gospel-centered
• Free leader resources, including promotional video and social media assets, available for download

Benefits:

• Helps teens recognize God’s presence and activity in ordinary life
• Encourages students to grow in spiritual maturity one faithful step at a time
• Shows teens how daily rhythms and spiritual habits can shape a lifelong walk with God
• Helps students engage God with their emotions, intellect, character, worship, and relationships
• Encourages Christlike character through the fruit of the Spirit
• Equips students to love and serve family, friends, neighbors, and nonbelievers
• Helps teens connect their faith to school, work, community, culture, and everyday responsibilities
• Gives students a biblical framework for navigating trials, doubts, pain, and disappointments
• Encourages ongoing faithfulness through every season of life

MIKE BLACKABY

Mike Blackaby serves as a church planter in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he lives with his wife, Sarah, and their four children. He holds a PhD in worldview and apologetics from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Along with his brother Daniel, Mike is the author of several books and Bible studies including God, Heroes, and Everyday Dragons; Experiencing God Teen Edition; and Straight to the Heart: Communicating the Gospel in an Emotionally Driven Culture.

DANIEL BLACKABY

Daniel Blackaby is the author and co-author of nine books, including Experiencing God Teen Edition; 7 Steps for Knowing, Doing, and Experiencing the Will of God; God, Heroes, and Everyday Dragons; and the imaginative fiction trilogy The Lost City Chronicles. Daniel holds a PhD in Christianity and the arts and a ThM in philosophy, apologetics, and worldview from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He speaks on cultural engagement, Christianity and the arts, apologetics, and reaching the next generation for Christ, and he is the founder of The Collision (thecollision.org), a multimedia ministry designed to help Christians thoughtfully and biblically engage with culture and the arts. Daniel and his wife Sarah are the parents of twin boys.