SIMPLE AND FREE: STUDY GUIDE

This study guide takes you deeper into SIMPLE AND FREE: 7 Experiments Against Excess by New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker, with tools and practices to combat the areas of overindulgence and excess in our lives, leaving us less stressed and more fulfilled in our daily lives.
In SIMPLE AND FREE, first published as 7, Jen Hatmaker gave readers the story of how her reckoning with excess and materialism turned into a social experiment, which soon propelled into a spiritual movement. Now, in SIMPLE AND FREE: STUDY GUIDE, Hatmaker invites readers to delve deeper into solutions and practices for their own seven areas of excess—from stress to spending to social media. This nine-week study guide walks readers through these excesses and equips readers with practical tools with which to create solutions, making this a way of life, not just an experiment.
This resource takes the best from SIMPLE AND FREE and packs these points with Scripture, followed with prompting questions, broken down into focused, thematically organized weeks for readers to explore patterns and solutions around sustainability and gratitude in greater depth.
What's the payoff from living a deeply reduced life? It's the discovery of a greatly increased connection with God—a call toward Christ-like simplicity and generosity that transcends social experiment to become a radically better life.

Jen Hatmaker is the author of the New York Times bestsellers For the Love and Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire. Jen hosts the award-winning For the Love podcast and leads a tightly knit online community where she reaches millions of people each week. Jen and her husband founded Legacy Collective, a giving community that grants millions of dollars around the world. They live in Austin with their five kids in a 1910-era farmhouse that they overhauled as the stars of the HGTV series My Big Family Renovation.