Honest Hope · For pastors and caregivers
Using a guide with someone you're caring for.
Every Honest Hope guide is written to be read alone — and built to be walked through with someone. Here is what each one gives you.
If someone may be in danger, see our crisis and help resources (U.S.) first.
Before you hand someone a guide
- Read it first, all the way to the end. Each guide says plainly what Scripture promises and what it does not; you'll want to know both before you sit with someone.
- The group map is four sessions, not one. It's near the end of each guide. Use it over four weeks; don't try to do the whole guide in an evening.
- The printables are for the table, not the sermon. One page each — a one-pager and a template — meant to be handed across, written in, and kept.
- You are not the last line. Every guide names 988 and licensed help where they belong. When a conversation goes past what a guide is for, that's the moment to say so.
The eight guides
When God Feels Silent: His Silence Is Not His Absence
His silence is not His absence. For everyone quietly asking, “Is He there — and does He care that I am?”
Open the guide →
Print the one-pager →
Print the Psalm 13 lament template →
Your Adult Child’s Choices Are Not Proof That You Failed
What Proverbs 22:6 actually says — and what it never promised. For every parent quietly asking, “Did I do this?”
Open the guide →
Print the one-pager →
Print the Proverbs 22:6 sheet →
You Can Forgive Someone Without Rebuilding an Unsafe Relationship
Forgiveness, reconciliation, and trust are three different roads — and Scripture never asked you to walk them as one.
Open the guide →
Print the one-pager →
Print the Three Lanes chart →
Nothing in Your Past Puts You Beyond God’s Grace
What Scripture actually says about failure and usefulness — for everyone who serves a little less, sits a little farther back.
Open the guide →
Print the one-pager →
Print the No Condemnation page →
Repentance Is Not the Same as Living in Shame
You turned. You confessed. This page is about why you are still carrying it — and what God says about a sentence He never gave.
Open the guide →
Print the one-pager →
Print the Closed Case →
How to Pray When You Are Angry With God
What Scripture actually says about the fury you’ve been hiding from Him — for everyone praying polite prayers through gritted teeth.
Open the guide →
Print the one-pager →
Print the borrowed openers →
God Is Not Punishing You Every Time Something Goes Wrong
What Scripture actually says about suffering and payback — for everyone lying awake running the audit.
Open the guide →
Print the one-pager →
Print the Punishment or Discipline chart →
Doubt Is Not the Opposite of Faith
“I believe. Help my unbelief!” is a prayer Jesus answered with a healing — this page is about the question you’ve been afraid to ask out loud.
Open the guide →
Print the one-pager →
Print the Doubters’ Roll →
Guides in preparation are not listed here until they are cleared for use.