If you’re ready to move from simply existing or surviving in this cultural moment to living out your calling with purpose, become a Truth Rising: The Study facilitator! Watch the video to learn more.
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You can use Truth Rising: The Study in any setting!
Truth Rising: The Study is flexible and customizable, allowing you to structure your group as you see fit. Check out a few ideas below!
4 Weeks | 60 Minutes
Watch the teaching video together and complete the discussion questions as a group. Participants watch the story video on their own at home. This is best for groups who want a four-week study with an hour-long meeting time.
4 Weeks | 90 Minutes
Watch both the teaching and story videos together and complete the discussion questions as a group. This is best for groups who want to complete the study in four weeks and have a meeting time of 90 minutes or more.
8 Weeks | 60 Minutes
Spread the study out over eight weeks, watching one video per week, and complete the corresponding discussion questions. This is best for groups who have time to conduct an extended-format study.
Course Teacher
John Stonestreet
John Stonestreet serves as president of the Colson Center. He’s a sought-after speaker and author on areas of faith and culture, theology, worldview, education and apologetics. John is the daily voice of Breakpoint, the nationally syndicated commentary on the culture founded by the late Chuck Colson. He has co-authored five books including A Practical Guide to Culture and Restoring All Things.
John Stonestreet | President, Colson Center
Meet the Courageous Christians featured in Truth Rising: The Study
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Muslin-turned-atheist-turned-Christian. She is a champion for human rights, women’s rights, and free speech.
Born in Somalia, she emigrated to the Netherlands and eventually served as a member of the Dutch Parliament for three years.
As an activist, writer, conservative thinker, and former politician, Ayaan is known for speaking truth to power. She is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation.
As the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, Jack Phillips has become the name and face associated with business owners standing up for their deeply held religious beliefs.
For over 12 years, the Colorado cake artist has stood courageously and endured targeted attacks against him, his family, and his business, Masterpiece Cakeshop. The first attack started in 2012, when Colorado pursued legal action against Jack after he respectfully declined a request to create a custom cake celebrating a same-sex wedding.
In June 2018, Jack received his first hard-fought victory with the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the state had acted with “clear and impermissible hostility” toward Jack’s religious beliefs, violating the First Amendment. The legal attacks persist, and Jack continues to stand courageously for his faith.
Chloe Cole, a poised and articulate 21-year-old woman, passionately advocates against the practice of transitioning minors.
Driven by a noble mission to safeguard children from potentially harmful ideologies and medical interventions, Chloe draws from her personal experiences to shed light on the distressing consequences of “gender-affirming care” for adolescents.
Having embarked on her own transition journey at the tender age of 12, including puberty suppressants, cross-sex hormones at 13, and a double mastectomy at 15, only to subsequently detransition at 16, Chloe speaks with firsthand authority on the deeply traumatic effects experienced by minors undergoing “gender-affirming care.”
Omega Buckner was a humble, steadfast woman of faith whose quiet life in rural Virginia left an outsized mark on generations of students and church members.
An 89-year-old widow when a pair of reluctant teenage boys first knocked on her door in 1990, Ms. Buckner greeted them with warmth, a carol, and a kind of prayer that revealed a deep, lived friendship with God. Over the years, she remembered those boys by name (one of whom was John Stonestreet, who would one day be President of the Colson Center) and prayed for them daily for the rest of her life. In doing so, she embodied a faithfulness that shaped countless lives far beyond the small apartment attached to her grandson’s farmhouse.
Her legacy, evident in the tears and smiles of former students who had their own “Ms. Buckner story,” stands as a testament to the quiet power of steadfast prayer, simple obedience, and everyday hope.
A free, ready-to-use study
Truth Rising: The Study includes everything you need to do the study on your own or with a group!
Whether you're participating in a small group or doing Truth Rising: The Study at your own pace, the participant guide provides discussion questions and additional resources for each video.
We have everything you need to facilitate Truth Rising: The Study in your church, home, or community. Plus, we offer facilitator training for those who would like more resources from the Colson Center! You'll receive facilitator certification and access to our dedicated Facilitator Support Team.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Truth Rising: The Study is a free, four-part small group study designed to move Christians from feeling powerless in the face of civilizational decline to realizing their God-given calling in history. Built on the framework of hope, truth, identity, and calling, each lesson teaches a key ingredient of the Christian worldview so Christians can be equipped with unshakeable confidence in the Truth. Then, each teaching video is followed by the inspiring story of a Christian who lived out the Truth to show what courage can look like in our civilizational moment.
This ready-to-use digital resource includes four teaching videos, four courageous story videos, a small group facilitator guide, and a participant guide.
Each teaching video is 20-22 minutes in length, and each story video is 10-15 minutes in length.
Yes! You can sign up for free access to Truth Rising: The Study by clicking here. For additional resources like reflection questions, you can download the free Truth Rising: The Study Participant Guide once you sign up for the course.
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Presented By:
Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive in Christ. Each year, we provide biblical resources and guidance to millions of families, strengthening marriages, equipping parents, advocating for children, and engaging the culture with truth. As culture shifts, truth remains—unchanging and foundational. Through resources like Truth Rising, we empower families to stand firm in their faith and navigate today’s world with clarity and conviction. Visit Focus on the Family at FocusOnTheFamily.com or on Facebook and X.
Colson Center
The Colson Center exists to equip Christians with the clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Our podcasts and digital resources, including Breakpoint, the Identity Project, and the What Would You Say? video series equip hundreds of thousands of Christians each year with the clarity they need to celebrate good, resist evil, create what’s missing, and restore what’s broken right where God has placed them. Our formation programs, Colson Fellows and Colson Educators, have equipped thousands of men and women to pursue their vocational callings and daily lives with a courageous faith. To learn more about the Colson Center, visit the ColsonCenter.org, on Facebook, on Instagram, or on X.
