• letting scripture interpret itself, in the verse, in its context, and by its earlier usage
• reading in context, and asking to whom a passage is addressed and under which administration
• reading literally first, and naming figures of speech rather than guessing at them
• going back to the Hebrew and Greek
• recognizing what translators and editors added later
• listening to the structure of a passage
• holding hard verses openly "in abeyance" rather than forcing them

Save Yourselves from This Untoward Generation Acts 2, the Many Other Words Behind It, and the Grace Administration They Opened

Peter's sermon at Pentecost ends with three thousand souls added to the church (Acts 2:41) — but Luke's own summary says Peter "with many other words did testify and exhort" before that happened (Acts 2:40), and this study takes that overlooked verse as its starting point, asking what the rest of those words most likely were. Twelve chapters trace Acts 2:38-41 verse by verse — the call to repent and be baptized, the promise reaching "to your children, and to all that are afar off" — then widen out to the other recorded words of Christ these three thousand almost certainly already knew (the Great Commission, the Upper Room Discourse, the keys of the kingdom) and to what changed at Pentecost itself: the Grace Administration it opened, traced from Genesis through the ascension. Closes by asking where a reader today actually stands relative to Acts 2:39's promise, and names honestly, rather than glossing over, the handful of questions the study leaves open. A thorough, scripture-first study of what it actually meant, and still means, to "save yourselves from this untoward generation."

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God: Deliverer, Not Destroyer

God: Deliverer, Not Destroyer Takes on the hardest passages in scripture — the ones skeptics and believers alike struggle with, where God appears to destroy, judge, or command violence — and examines them carefully against His own revealed character and stated purpose. Rather than explaining these texts away, the study works through them directly, in their own context, asking how they fit with scripture's consistent testimony that God's desire is to deliver, not to destroy. Written for believers whose faith has been challenged by these passages.

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The Seven Administrations of Scripture -
A narrative study, with the governing word of each age

The Seven Administrations of Scripture A narrative study identifying and defining the seven administrations, or dispensations, of biblical history — Paradise (Eden), the Patriarchal age, the Mosaic Law, Christ's earthly ministry, the present Grace Administration, the coming Day of Wrath, and the Day of Judgment and Millennial Kingdom — each marked in scripture by its own audible declaration and governing basis. Traces how God has dealt with mankind differently across each age and resolves open questions such as whether the "Administration of the Mystery" is a separate era or the fuller unfolding of Grace. A clear big-picture framework for understanding how the whole Bible fits together from Genesis to Revelation.

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Who Is Paul? An Apostle's Most Unusual Calling

Thirteen of the New Testament's books carry Paul's name, and no other apostle's own story fills as much of the book of Acts. Yet by every human measure, Saul of Tarsus was the last man who should have been called to be an apostle — not a bystander to the church's earliest persecution, but its chief agent. Then came Damascus, and by his own account the reversal was immediate, coming, in his own words, without his once conferring "with flesh and blood." This study asks and answers, from the text itself, who Paul actually was before his conversion, what happened when he was called and how that calling is recorded and corroborated, how his commission to the Gentiles related to Peter's and James's to the circumcision, and how he says he received the gospel he preached — a claim this study finds without an exact parallel among the New Testament's other writers. It follows him through the book of Acts, across his thirteen letters both by the order he likely wrote them and the order the church has preserved them, and into what the seven letters written to churches actually divide into and why — before settling the hardest and most disputed question of all: was his journey to Jerusalem an act of disobedience, or the fulfillment of everything he had already been called to do?

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Purposed in the Spirit: Did Paul Err by Going to Jerusalem?

Paul told the Ephesian elders plainly that he was "purposed in the spirit" to go to Jerusalem, even though he already knew bonds and afflictions awaited him there (Acts 20:22-23). When he arrived at Tyre, disciples there, "by the Spirit," told him not to go (Acts 21:4) — and within days he was arrested, beginning an ordeal that would keep him a prisoner for years. Was Paul disobeying a direct word from God, or fulfilling a commission named at his very calling? This study works the question directly: from Paul's original commission (Acts 9:15-16) and Luke's own vocabulary of divine necessity, through the hardest verse for either side (Acts 21:4, read against Luke's own fuller account of what was actually revealed versus what alarmed companions concluded), to the Lord's own confirmation to Paul after his arrest (Acts 23:11) and what that imprisonment went on to produce — some of the fullest revelation Paul ever wrote. A considered, carefully argued answer to one of the most debated questions in Paul's life, weighed honestly against the case for the other side. This study also appears, in full, as Chapter 4 of the larger study Who Is Paul? An Apostle's Most Unusual Calling.

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Alone in the Universe
What Scripture Says About UFOs, UAPs, and Intelligent Alien Life

This study asks a question scripture is not usually read as answering directly, and states its own answer plainly before a single chapter argues for it: does the universe contain other advanced, intelligent life — somewhere among the stars, or already here, watching, in the objects the government itself now calls Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena?

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Genesis 1:2 and the Gap Theory Revealed

Tests the Gap Theory — the idea that an undated ruin-and-reconstruction gap separates Genesis 1:1 from 1:2 — directly against scripture, arguing it has no place to sit: the fall requires a prior creation as its very destination, and creation's own purpose was never repair work improvised after an unplanned catastrophe, but the stage foreordained for man, a Redeemer, and the demonstration of love. Having settled that question, the study turns to the verse's own vocabulary, examining Genesis 1:2 word by word and letter by letter — down to its Hebrew grammar, its paleo-Hebrew pictographs, and its gematria — to let the text speak for itself.

 

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Grace Administration Primer
What scripture says to the new Christian

Grace Administration Primer: A foundational study written for the new believer, walking step by step through what the Grace Administration provides in Christ: salvation and the promise of a Messiah traced from Genesis 3:15 forward, the six Sonship Rights every believer receives (Righteousness, Sanctification, Redemption, Justification, Reconciliation, and Adoption), the believer's Hope and the armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-17), our God-given titles and attributes in Christ, and practical instruction on temptation, sin, and prayer. A full section explains the gift of holy spirit — the distinction between the Holy Spirit as Giver and holy spirit as gift — along with the purpose and benefits of speaking in tongues. Scripture-saturated and easy to follow, ideal both for personal grounding in the basics of the faith and for sharing with someone newly born again.

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Did Enoch Die?
Translation, "Seeing Death," and the Two Men Scripture Says God Took

Two men are commonly held to have escaped death altogether — Enoch, of whom Genesis says only "he was not; for God took him," and Elijah, carried up by a whirlwind. This study asks whether the phrase that case rests on actually means what it is usually taken to mean, since "not seeing death" and "not dying" may not be the same claim. It works directly through all four occurrences of "see death" in scripture, including the one where the Lord applies it to people who do die; through the Hebrew of Genesis 5:24, where both "he was not" and "God took him" are ordinary words for the dead; and through the same construction used of Christ, who died and yet did not see corruption. It closes with the writer of Hebrews' own verdict on Enoch, thirty-four verses later, and names plainly the one place the traditional reading still has its strongest ground.

 

A Son Have I Established
Genesis 1:1 — Title, Authorship, and Purpose of All Scripture

Son Have I Established A deep, word-by-word study of Genesis 1:1 — "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" — read through the full weight of Hebrew grammar and figures of speech to uncover what the very first verse of scripture establishes about the Son of God, long before His birth in Bethlehem. Traces this opening declaration forward through scripture's own numbers, patterns, and types, including the New Jerusalem's cube shape in Revelation 21:16, echoing the cube of Solomon's Temple's Holy of Holies. A rigorous, exhaustively-sourced study for readers who want to see just how much the Bible's very first sentence was already saying about God's plan in Christ.

Related to the Gen 1:1 study
Genesis One: God's Table of Contents to the Bible
by Melvin Elliott: (Free pdf download) A foundational book which provides a wonderful overview of scripture from Gen throuth Rev. He shares several important truths which when undersood, remove much misunderstanding of structure and purpose of God's word.

NOTE:
Genesis One is copyrighted, however I have express permission
from Melvin Elliott to make this digital book freely available for download.

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In Vain Do They Worship Me
A Scriptural Study of Mark 7:6-9
Tracing the tradition of men from the Pharisees back to Eden, and forward into the church

In Vain Do They Worship Me: Beginning from Jesus's own indictment in Mark 7:6-9 — "in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" — this study traces the tradition of men as a recurring pattern throughout scripture: its roots in the patriarchal household, its cure in the Mosaic Law, its return through the Judges and Kings, and its confrontation head-on in the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus brings people back to right doctrine and introduces a Father instead of a performance-based religion. Follows the same pattern resurfacing in the early church (Acts 15's Judaizers, Paul's own echoes of Mark 7's language in Colossians and Titus) and closes by asking whether churches, as organizations, tend to devolve the same way over time.

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Where Are the Dead Right Now?
A Scriptural Search for the Truth About Death, the Grave, and the Hope of the Resurrection

Ask ten believers where a man goes the moment he dies and the answers will not agree. Much of that confusion traces to a handful of English words carrying work that several distinct Hebrew and Greek words were meant to do separately. This study separates them and works through each verse by verse — sheol and hades, the common condition of all the dead; qeber and mnēmeion, the literal grave; and gehenna, tartarus, the abyss, and the lake of fire, which belong to a different question entirely. From there it traces what scripture plainly says happens at death, why it so often calls death sleep, and where the resurrection actually places everyone. The hardest verses are given their own chapter and read in full rather than avoided — among them Enoch and Elijah, taken bodily by God's own hand but not, on this study's reading, exempted from death. One passage the study could not resolve is named and held open rather than forced to fit.

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The Tithe and the Church: Whose Law Is It?
A Scripture Study on the Tithe and the Church
Testing the tithe against every administration scripture places it in

The Tithe and the Church Asks directly is the tithe — a required tenth — binding on believers today, or was it provision specific to one administration that ended at the cross? Presents the traditional case for tithing fully and fairly before testing it, then works through every tithing passage in its own administration: Abraham and Jacob before the Law, the Mosaic tithe's actual purpose (supporting the landless Levitical priesthood), Malachi 3 in its original post-exilic setting, Jesus's own tithing statements (given before the cross, under the Law), and Hebrews 7's argument about priesthood rather than a command to tithe. Closes with the Grace Administration's own pattern of giving and pastoral guardrails for whichever conclusion the reader reaches.

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Climate Change
A Study From Creation to New Creation

Most treatments of this subject begin in the last two centuries. This study begins on the sixth day, with a verdict — very good — and asks what that verdict was actually describing before asking what has changed since. It traces the account forward from there: six ordinary days shown from the Hebrew grammar itself, a world watered by mist and never by rain, the Curse and the long abundant centuries after it, the Flood from its opening rupture to where the water finally went, and the rock layers, coal, and oil it left behind — weighed against what was directly observed at Mount St. Helens within living memory. Only then does it turn to the present controversy: what the data shows, what is genuinely disputed, and what is claimed past what the evidence bears. The disagreements are named throughout, including those within creation science itself.

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One God, One Mediator
The Man Christ Jesus

One God, One Mediator: A careful, scripture-first examination of the nature of God and the identity of Jesus Christ, anchored in 1 Timothy 2:5: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." Works directly through the texts most often cited on every side of this question to let scripture itself define the relationship between the Father and the Son, rather than importing a later creedal framework. Written for believers who want a clear, honest, and thoroughly biblical answer to one of the most debated questions in Christian history — who is the one true God, and who is Jesus Christ in relation to Him?

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Christian Nationalism
Wrong Kingdom, Wrong Fruit

First: worldly Christian nationalism, examined as a political-fusion ideology, will be tested against scripture and found, at real and specific points, to be in error. Second: godly civic faithfulness — call it godly patriotism — is not merely permitted by scripture. It is commanded.

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Overcoming Temptation and Sin
From Eden to Victory in Grace

Overcoming Temptation and Sin Traces the biblical pattern of temptation and sin from its first appearance in Eden, through the Law's diagnosis of sin, to the believer's victory over it in the Grace Administration. Examines how temptation works, what scripture says about the sin nature versus the new birth, and the specific provision believers have in Christ to overcome sin day to day — not through willpower alone, but through the resources of the new birth. Practical and pastoral, written to equip the believer for real, everyday victory.

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Outreach in the Grace Administration
Biblical Pattern and Practical Strategy for Sharing Christ

Outreach in the Grace Administration: A practical, scripture-grounded study on how the gospel was carried to people — first by Christ during His own earthly ministry, then by the early church under the Grace Administration — and what that pattern means for personal witnessing, home fellowships, and door-to-door outreach today. Draws on Christ's own method (Matthew 10, Luke 10, John 4, the sower) and the church's pattern in Acts, comparing what changes and what stays constant between the two administrations. Offers a structured approach for short encounters, guidance on handling common objections, and worked-through responses to three frequent scenarios — "I'm Jewish," "I already believe in God," and "the Bible has too many contradictions" — each brought back to the one question that matters most: do you want everlasting life?