Insight for Living Ministries’ Searching the Scriptures studies are designed to accompany each of our daily broadcasts. Formerly known as Message Mates, these expanded, substantive, and in-depth interactive studies based on the Bible-teaching ministry of Chuck Swindoll will challenge you to dig deeply into the fortifying nutrients of God’s Word.Based on Chuck’s book Searching the Scriptures: Find the Nourishment Your Soul Needs, each Searching the Scriptures study unpacks Chuck’s lifelong process of studying the Scriptures—digging deeply into each biblical passage’s cultural, historical, and theological contexts, and then presenting the lessons learned.
Each study is available as a downloadable PDF you can use for future study.
Previously released Message Mates are still available for use when studying the series they correspond with. Click on the appropriate tab below to find the right study tool for each series.
Current Searching the Scriptures Studies
The full set of Searching the Scriptures studies for Laugh Again: Experience Outrageous Joy can be downloaded here. If you would like to download individual Searching the Scriptures studies for each message visit our Current Broadcast page.
- A Great Savior . . . A Humble Servant
- A Living Hope
- Abraham: One Nomad's Amazing Journey of Faith
- Beholding Christ . . . The Son of God
- Biblical Parenting
- Changing Wanderers Into Worshipers
- Cultivating a Dynamic Ministry
- Esther
- Exalting Christ . . . The Lamb of God
- Finding Healing through Forgiveness
- Following Christ . . . The Man of God
- Gloria in Excelsis Deo Concert
- God Knows What He's About
- James: Hands-On Christianity
- Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet
- Laugh Again: Experience Outrageous Joy
- Loving One Another
- Miracle Announced from a Tomb: "He Is Risen!"
- Paul's Swan Song
- Searching the Scriptures: Find the Nourishment Your Soul Needs
- The Greatest Words
- The Grace Awakening
- Things to Stop and Start
- Things That Enhance Your Years at Seminary
- Things That Hinder Your Years at Seminary
- What If . . . ?
- Wise Counsel for Troubled Times
- A Prophet We Can Trust
- Adventuring With God
- Balancing Grace with Love
- Can One Person Make a Difference?
- Celebrate and Trust God
- Character Counts
- Creating a Legacy
- Daniel, Volume 1
- Daniel, Volume 2
- Divine Love and Grace
- Easter 2010
- Easter 2011
- Easter 2012
- Easter 2013
- Easter 2014
- Easter 2015
- Easter 2016
- Encouraging Essentials for a Dynamic Ministry
- Excellence in Ministry: Starting Strong
- Excellence in Ministry: Finishing Well
- Experience the Land and the Book
- Family Matters
- Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives
- Getting Through the Tough Stuff
- Gods Hands on Human Clay
- Gods Masterwork, Volume One
- Gods Masterwork, Volume Two
- Gods Masterwork, Volume Three
- Gods Masterwork, Volume Four
- Gods Masterwork, Volume Five
- Gods Masterwork, Volume Six
- Gods Masterwork, Volume Seven
- Growing Deep in the Christian Life
- Growing Up in God's Family
- Guilt, Grace, and Gratitude
- Hand Me Another Brick
- Hilarious Generosity
- How Great Is Our God!
- Impact of a Faithful Father, The
- Imprint of a Faithful Mother, The
- Insights on 1 Peter
- Insights on 2 Peter
- Joseph
- Listener Favorites, Volume 2
- Listener Favorites, Volume 3
- Living on the Ragged Edge
- Living Portraits of the Church
- Living Right in a Wrong World
- Living the Life
- New Testament Postcards
- Questions Christians Ask
- Resolving Family Conflicts
- Saying "Yes" to Christ's Call
- Simple Faith
- Songs for All Seasons from the Psalms
- Stand Firm in Your Freedom
- Staying Pure in a World Gone Wild
- Strengthening Your Grip
- Strike the Original Match
- Supernatural Living in a Secular World
- The Sanctity of Life . . . The Inescapable Issue
- Three "Musts" for a New Year
- Trusting the God of Impossibilities