Scripture taken seriously: the context, the original words, and what it asks of us. Each weekly teaching is a beginner study, about five pages, short enough to read in one sitting. Every one of them also has a fuller version in our Deeper Studies, with more Scripture, more of the original languages, and more of what faithful teachers have said through the centuries. When a subject grabs you and you want the whole thing, that’s where to go. A new one lands every week or so, and some weeks “or so” does a lot of heavy lifting. Join the list and each one comes to you the day it’s ready. No calendar math required.
A short, beginner-friendly study of the Holy Spirit: who he is, why he is a person and not a force, why he deserves the same love we give the Father and the Son, and how he pours God's love into our hearts, teaches us to pray, and makes us holy.
A short, beginner-friendly study of happiness: why God made us to want it, why the world's cisterns cannot hold it, and why the Bible says holiness is the road into joy, beginning with forgiveness at the cross.
The basic tools for reading the Bible well, for anyone just starting out: what hermeneutics is, three questions to ask of any passage, reading in context, knowing what kind of writing you are reading, the world behind the text, letting Scripture explain Scripture, five common mistakes, and a simple method you can use every time.
A short, beginner-friendly study of eleven popular sayings about fear, anger, anxiety, the past, and control, each set beside what God's Word says. Our feelings are real, but they are never the final authority, and the God who keeps us is better than the faith we hold.
A short, beginner-friendly study on surrender: what it is and is not, what it means to cast your anxieties on God, ten signs you are still holding on, and why the God who did not spare his own Son can be trusted with everything you release.
A short, beginner-friendly study of forgiveness: why Jesus answered Peter with a number too big to count, what the parable of the two servants shows about the debt we were forgiven, why we forgive just as the Lord forgave us, and how releasing a debt differs from trusting someone again.
A short, beginner-friendly study of three Bible commands (repent, take every thought captive, be transformed by the renewing of your mind) and how they work together as one fight for your mind, a fight Christ has already won.
A short, beginner-friendly study of Mark 11:22-25, where Jesus pauses in the last week before the cross to teach on prayer: all of heaven's resources are at the disposal of the believer who prays. Five necessities: remember, trust, believe, ask, forgive.
A new teaching from Scripture every week or two (the day it’s ready, not a day before), plus the free study guide, The Necessities for Effective Prayer (Mark 11:22-25), the moment you confirm.
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