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My heart in presenting these studies is to further Ephesians 4:3, "Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace," within the body of Christ. Providing these studies is my way of contributing to the body of Christ.

1Ti 2:4 Who (God) will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. All Christians are saved, sadly few come unto the knowledge of the truth. The phrase "It is written" is found 63 times in the new testament. That phrase was given by God, spoken by Jesus and penned by the apostles. "It is written" is the standard God desires for his people. Accuracy matters.

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How We Study Scripture: Our Method, and Why Accuracy Matters
A 25 page detailed presentation in pdf

The phrase "It is written" is found 63 times in the new testament. That phrase was given by God, spoken by Jesus and penned by the apostles. "It is written" is the standard God desires for his people.

Every study on this site reaches conclusions, and every reader deserves to know how those conclusions were reached. This presentation sets out the whole process openly. It names and explains more than forty methods, each illustrated from scripture, beginning with the reasons accuracy matters at all: the words are God's, tradition can quietly take their place, and real people live by what they are taught.

Readers will also see how each claim is labeled as scripture, inference, or outside support, and how the other side is always stated at full strength. The presentation ends with an invitation to do what the Bereans did: search the scriptures and see "whether those things were so."

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That Ye May Know: The Epistles of John
First, Second and Third John, Verse by Verse, with the Antichrist and Love Explained

The apostle John wrote his first letter for one stated purpose: "that ye may know that ye have eternal life" (1 John 5:13). This study takes all three of his letters verse by verse, so that the reader may know what John wrote and why.

Structure charts show how entire epistle and each passage is built, drawn the way E. W. Bullinger drew them. The epistle opens with Christ (1:1–2:17) and ends with Christ (5:1-21). At the centre stand the two subjects John sets against each other twice. The first is the antichrist: what John actually says he is, how the "spirits" of chapter 4 are to be tried, and what the believer is to do. The second is love: God's own nature, shown when the Father sent His Son and the Son laid down His life for us.

Part One introduces the man behind the letters: the fisherman, the son of thunder, the disciple whom Jesus loved, the pillar of Jerusalem, and in old age the elder of Ephesus. It covers when and where he wrote, the false teachers who had "went out from us," how the letters stand beside John's Gospel, and to whom they were written. Every one of John's 132 verses is then explained phrase by phrase, with the Greek words made plain, the cross-references quoted, and the figures of speech named.

Contested questions, including the longer text of 1 John 5:7-8, are answered plainly, and the evidence is set out in the appendices.

The Structure of Scripture: A Demonstration of the Precision of God's Word

The Bible is one book with one plan. This study shows how what was lost in the opening chapters of Genesis is restored, step by step and in reverse order, in the closing chapters of Revelation. The heavens and earth created are answered by the new heavens and earth. The serpent entering the garden is answered by the serpent bound. The tree of life closed off is answered by the tree of life restored. At the centre of the whole plan stands the Church of God. Written for readers new to these subjects, it explains the two comings of Christ, the kingdom promised to Israel, and the Mystery revealed to Paul. Each step is weighed honestly against Scripture, and together they show a God who declared "the end from the beginning.

GENESIS AND CREATION

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

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.

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.

God’s Witness in the Stars: The Heavens Declare — From Creation to the Bright and Morning Star

Go outside on a clear night, away from the lights of town, and look up. What you see is the oldest book in the world. It was open before Moses wrote a word, before Abraham left Ur, before the Flood. Adam saw it. Enoch saw it. Noah saw it from the deck of the ark. Every generation since has seen the same pages, turning slowly with the seasons.

The Bible says this book speaks.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge” (Psalm 19:1-2). Not “the heavens are pretty.” Not “the heavens make us feel small.” The heavens declare. They utter speech. They show knowledge.

Driven Out: The First Year East of Eden

"So he drove out the man" (Genesis 3:24). Adam and Eve left the garden with coats of skins and nothing else: no knife, no fire, no shelter and no harvest. How did two people with empty hands meet every need in the days, weeks and months that followed? This study works through it in order, from the first drink of water and the first night under the sky, through the first sharp stone, the first cord, the first booth and the making of fire, to the first bread from "the herb of the field." It sets out what each step required, how long it may have taken, and which obstacles no tool could fix. It weighs what Adam already knew and what the land east of Eden was like before rain and the Flood. Castaway accounts from Alexander Selkirk to the Lykov family are used only to measure time and endurance, because none of those people started with nothing. The study is honest about where Scripture speaks and where it is silent, and it marks how much weight each argument can bear. It closes with a full inventory of necessities in order, a possible calendar of the first year, and what the account teaches about a God who drove them out but did not abandon them.

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.

The Trees in the Garden Eden's Two Trees, and Their Meaning Through All of Scripture

Genesis names two actual trees standing in the middle of the first garden — the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil — and this study follows both through the whole of scripture rather than stopping at Genesis 3. Hebrew word studies (chai/chayah behind "life," da'at/yada behind "knowledge," the serpent's own arum/arom wordplay) ground each step: the tree of life from its guarding — not destruction — at Genesis 3:24 all the way to its reopening in Revelation 22; the tree of knowledge through the doubled warning "thou shalt surely die" and what eating it actually opened; and the tree itself as the place of the curse, from Deuteronomy 21:22-23's hanging law through Galatians 3:13 to the apostles' own deliberate word choice for the cross. Closing chapters follow trees as scripture's own recurring figure for people and kingdoms (Psalm 1, Ezekiel 31, Daniel 4, Isaiah 11) before drawing the whole-Bible arc together: two paths to being "as gods" — one seized, one received. A rigorous, Hebrew-grounded study for readers who want to see how much one image in the first garden is still doing work in the last chapter of Revelation.

Who Are the "Sons of God"? Settling the Genesis Six Question

Who Are the "Sons of God"? A focused, in-depth study of one of the Bible's most debated passages — Genesis 6:1-4's "sons of God" who took wives from among "the daughters of men" — working through the major interpretive views against the Hebrew text, cross-references elsewhere in scripture, and the passage's own immediate context. Settles the question directly rather than leaving it open, with every step of the reasoning shown so the reader can follow and test the conclusion for themselves. A must-read for anyone who has puzzled over "giants in the earth."

THE PLAN AND STRUCTURE OF SCRIPTURE

The Structure of Scripture: A Demonstration of the Precision of God's Word

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.

THE GRACE ADMINISTRATION

Grace Administration Primer: What scripture says to the new Christian

Salvation in the Grace Administration

Salvation in the Grace Administration sets aside the question of those who never heard, and asks a simpler one: what does God offer every person today, and how is it received? It begins with a brief look at how people were saved in the administrations before grace. From there it shows why salvation comes through one name only, and how simple it is to receive, with Romans 10:9-10 at the centre. It then sets out everything the believer gains: righteousness, the new birth, sonship, the gift of holy spirit, freedom from condemnation, and everlasting life held now. The study also covers why God saves by grace and why He sends preachers so that all may hear. It explains the resurrection of the just and the unjust, and closes with God's full will from 1 Timothy 2:4: "all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." It is a clear, encouraging study for new believers and anyone who wants to share the gospel with confidence.

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

Salvation and the Grace Administration: Does “No Access” Mean No Hope?

Salvation and the Grace Administration Addresses a question that troubles many sincere believers: what about those who lived — or live — without access to the gospel of Jesus Christ? Does "no access" mean no hope? Traces how the content of saving faith has developed across scripture, from the patriarchs' faith in God's promise, through the Law, to the full revelation of grace after the cross, showing what God has required for salvation in each administration and why access to that revelation matters. A careful, compassionate study for anyone wrestling with the fairness of God toward those who never heard.

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?

GOD AND HIS SON

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?

The Love of God
Simple Enough for a Child, Deep Enough for a Lifetime

"We love him, because he first loved us." The love of God is the simplest truth in the Bible, and the deepest. This study begins with the words scripture itself uses for love, Greek and Hebrew, each explained in plain English. It then follows God's love from the first word of Genesis, through the patriarchs, the prophets and the Psalms, to John 3:16, the cross, and 1 Corinthians 13. From there it carries that love into everyday life:

Along the way it answers the questions readers carry most: does God love me, and is He still loving me when life hurts? Jesus Christ stands at the centre as the living example. The study closes with the hope of His return and an invitation still open to whosoever will.

God: Deliverer, Not Destroyer

THE BELIEVER'S LIFE

God Wants You to Be Fully Persuaded: Faith Is Believing, and Here's How It's Done

"You just have to take it on faith." Many Christians hear that whenever Scripture seems to have no answer, and many walk away with a feeling instead of an answer. This study shows from God's Word that faith was never meant to be a leap in the dark. In the Greek of the New Testament, "faith" and "believe" are one word, and its root means to be persuaded. Faith is being fully persuaded of what God has said, as Abraham was (Romans 4:21), and acting on it.

Written simply for anyone, it shows that faith comes by hearing God's Word, that God gives reasons and invites questions, and which parts of the Bible are written directly to believers today. It then gives a practical way to renew the mind: receive the Word with meekness, hold it fast with conviction, and release it with boldness. It closes with 89 verses to write on index cards, carry everywhere, memorize with understanding, and keep ready for the moments you need them.

The Christian's God-Given Titles & Attributes
What God Calls the Believer, and What He Has Made Him

Saints. Sons of God. Ambassadors. Justified, redeemed, complete in Him. This study gathers the names and qualities God's word gives to those who belong to Him, book by book through the New Testament. Each title is explained in plain words, along with the spiritual reality behind it. Believers, for example, are Christ's brethren because they share one Father through the new birth, not because of any earthly family tie. The study also explains the difference between a title (who you are) and an attribute (what God has made you). For every book it shows who the words were first written to and how they pertain to us today, keeping the Gospel period distinct from the Grace administration. Along the way it settles two questions often misread: who "the Israel of God" is, and where the name "Christian" came from. Not one of these titles is earned. Each is God's gift, and knowing them is knowing who you are.

Overcoming Temptation and Sin: From Eden to Victory in Grace

Why do I still do what I don't want to do, and can it really change? This study answers that question from scripture, in plain words. It shows what sin is and where it began. It shows how temptation works: from the first look, to desire, to the act, to hiding. It explains why being tempted is not the same as sinning, and why God tempts no one.

It follows God's dealings with sin through the ages to the cross, the resurrection and the ascension. It watches Jesus answer every temptation with "It is written," and learns from Joseph, Daniel, Job, David and Peter, who stood, or fell and rose again.

Then it shows the simplicity of overcoming. Temptation is not beaten by gritted-teeth willpower. It is beaten by believing God's word, as surely as a driver trusts his mirror or a pilot his instruments. A chapter of verses for common temptations (lust, anger, greed, fear, bitterness, the tongue and more) gives the reader the word for his own battle. The study ends with how to get up after a fall, and with the goal: a peaceful, joyful walk with the Father.

If you'd like a one-sentence version for a list view: Shows from scripture how temptation works and why it is overcome not by willpower but by believing God's word, with Jesus as the example and the verses for each common battle.

THE APOSTLE PAUL

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?

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.

DEATH AND THE HOPE OF RESURRECTION

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

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.

BOOK AND PASSAGE STUDIES

Blessed Be Thy Advice: Abigail, Nabal and David in 1 Samuel 25

A fool insults the coming king. The king straps on his sword and swears that by morning not one man of the fool's household will be left alive. Then a wise woman rides out alone, falls at his feet, and turns him back. Ten days later the LORD Himself settles the matter. First Samuel 25 is one of the most vivid stories in the Old Testament, and there is far more in it than first meets the eye.

This study goes through the chapter verse by verse. It starts with how David and his six hundred men came to be in the wilderness of Maon, and with the land, the season and the shearing feast at Carmel. It then looks closely at Nabal, whose very name means "fool." The Hebrew writer surrounds him with wordplays on wine-skins, dogs and stone, and draws him, point by point, as a picture of King Saul. It explains what David's strange oath against "him that pisseth against the wall" really means, and tests whether the wall could stand for the face of God.

At the heart of the study is Abigail's speech, one of the longest speeches by a woman anywhere in the Old Testament. She speaks of God making David "a sure house" in the very words God would later use in His promise to David's line. She speaks of the "bundle of life" and the sling. She warns David of what one act of revenge would cost his conscience as king. Was she speaking by revelation from God? The study weighs the evidence openly and states how strong each conclusion is.

The study also shows why the chapter sits between the two scenes where David spares Saul. Chapter 24 states the principle, chapter 25 tests it, and chapter 26 shows the lesson learned: vengeance belongs to God. It finishes with what the chapter teaches the believer today about anger, humility, wise counsel and being a peacemaker.

The Psalms Restored: Their Titles, Their Structure, and Their Sense
All 150 Psalms Presented One by One

The Psalms are the best-loved book of the Old Testament, yet much of what makes them clear has been lost to the ordinary reader. Their Titles are read as puzzles or skipped. The way each Psalm is built is seldom seen. And most people read them one at a time, as if they had been gathered at random, when in fact they stand in five Books, in ordered groups, each with its own subject. The Psalms Restored sets out to give back what has been lost, so that, as in Nehemiah's day, the Word is read distinctly, the sense is given, and the reader understands.

Part One is twelve short chapters to read before the Psalms themselves. They cover what the Psalms are, who wrote them and to whom, the five Books and their match with the five books of Moses, and how the Titles are restored using Dr. Thirtle's key from Habakkuk 3. They also explain Selah and the special words of the Titles, Hebrew poetry and the structures, figures of speech, the Names of God, Messiah in the Psalms, and the Psalms in Israel's history.

Part Two presents all 150 Psalms, one by one, in the order and groups of the Psalter. Each Book and division opens with its subject, its structure and its purpose. Each Psalm then has:

its place in its group, its writer and its occasion;
an introduction;
its structure;
the whole Psalm in the King James Version, with the Name of God shown in green after LORD and GOD: "The LORD [Jehovah] is my shepherd";
its Title restored to its proper place, so that "To the chief Musician . . ." closes the Psalm it belongs to;
a verse-by-verse commentary that explains the words, names the figures of speech, and shows where the New Testament quotes the verse;
a closing section that ties the Psalm to its group

Psalm 119 has its own introduction to the ten words for God's Word: law, testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, judgments, the two Hebrew words translated "word," and way. Each word is marked in the text so the reader can follow it from Aleph to Tau.

Part Three closes the study with a Conclusion on what the Psalter says as a whole, from "Blessed is the man" to "Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD," and a chapter gathering what the study has learned. Ten appendices follow:

A Scripture Index completes the volume.
The PDF has a clickable list of all 150 Psalms, arranged in three blocks of fifty, so any Psalm is one click away, and each Psalm's heading leads back to the list.

"Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth?" (Proverbs 22:20, 21). This study goes through all thirty-one chapters of Proverbs, every one of its 915 verses, phrase by phrase. It follows the book's own headings through its five divisions: Solomon's ten discourses to his son, Solomon's proverbs, the words of the wise, the proverbs copied by the men of Hezekiah, and the words of Agur and of Lemuel.

Part One comes first. It explains what a proverb is, settles that the proverbs are by Solomon and not merely for him, and sets out the Hebrew words the English hides. These are the simple, the three kinds of fool, the scorner, the sluggard, the four words for the poor, and the words for wisdom itself. Each one is tagged in green throughout the text, and the reader is reminded of its meaning every time it occurs. The LORD is marked [Jehovah] wherever the Hebrew has the Name.

Wherever the King James Version departs from the Hebrew, the study follows the Hebrew. Its findings on the claim that Proverbs borrowed from the Egyptian Instruction of Amenemope are presented in full. The study closes with "What We Have Learned" and six appendices: a Subject Index, every occurrence of the tagged Hebrew words, the Proverbs quoted in the New Testament, the repeated proverbs, the sayings shared with the rest of the Old Testament, and the disputed questions with each answer's weight.

If you'd rather match the one-sentence style of your other listings, here is a short version:

"Explains every verse of all thirty-one chapters, phrase by phrase, following the book's own five divisions, tagging in green the Hebrew words for wisdom, the fool and the poor, and setting out the findings on the Amenemope question.

Harmony of the Gospels: Four Witnesses, One Lord and Saviour

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John each tell the life of Jesus Christ in their own way. Matthew presents the King, Mark the Servant, Luke the Man, and John the Son of God. This harmony sets all four in one order, event by event, from the writers' openings to the ascension. It doesn't print the Gospels side by side. Instead it gives a simple reading grid, with the chapter and verse in each Gospel for every event, so you can open your Bible and read every account together. Every verse of the four Gospels is placed. Before each of the 77 sections, a short commentary tells you where the story stands, who the people and places are, and what to watch for in each Gospel. Dates, seasons and feasts are marked throughout, with John's Passovers giving the frame. Where the accounts seem to differ, the harmony shows how they fit and says plainly how sure each judgment is. Use it to read the life of Christ straight through, to study one event, or to start from any verse.

How Long Did Christ Minister?
Searching the Scriptures for the Length of His Ministry

Most Christians have heard that Jesus ministered for three and a half years. Others have heard one year, two years, or a little over three. Yet no verse in the Bible says "he ministered so many years." Every answer has to be built from other evidence. That evidence includes the feasts the Gospels mention, the seasons they describe, the rulers they name, and the prophecies of the Old Testament.

This study starts where God first set his appointed times, in the Old Testament. It works through Daniel's seventy weeks and sets the two main readings of Daniel 9:27 side by side, so the reader can weigh them fairly. It looks at "the acceptable year of the LORD," which Jesus read in his first recorded sermon, and at its links to the jubilee and the sabbatical years. It also tests other patterns that are often cited: Elijah's three years and six months, the fruit tree of Leviticus 19 and the barren fig tree, the age of priestly service, the Passover lamb, and the feasts of Leviticus 23.

Next the study turns to the Gospel record. It follows the feasts John names in order and examines the two disputed verses that decide the count, John 5:1 and John 6:4. It sets beside them the grain fields and the "green grass" of the other Gospels. It then tries to fix the dates using:

The study reports what the earliest Christian writers said, but only as history, not as authority.

Every argument is weighed in the open. The study says how strong each one is, from direct statement of scripture down to corroboration only, and what a careful reader on the other side could fairly answer. The verdict separates what is certain, what is probable, and what remains open. It doesn't claim more than scripture says. The appendices give the full tables: every feast and season marker, the arithmetic of Daniel 9, the dates of 14 Nisan, the sabbatical-year evidence, and every argument with its weight.

The question is not a matter of salvation. It does bear on whether God's prophecies of the Messiah were fulfilled on time, and on how the four Gospels fit together. Those are reasons enough to search it out as far as the Word allows.

But We Have the Mind of Christ
The Wisdom of God in a Mystery — A Verse-by-Verse Study of 1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Paul writes that he speaks "the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom," and ends with a startling claim: "But we have the mind of Christ." This study works through all eleven verses, word by word, to ask what that wisdom is, why it was hidden, and who receives it. It shows that the "world" Paul speaks of is mostly the Greek aion, the age. That links the passage to God's purpose of the ages and to the mystery revealed in Ephesians and Colossians. It also traces Isaiah behind verses 9 and 16, and lets Paul's next sentence settle what verse 15 means. That sentence is "as unto babes in Christ." The conclusion is that the mind of Christ is God's gift to every believer, not the possession of a spiritual elite. What believers lack is growth, not access. The study is honest about its limits, naming three questions the text leaves open, and closes with a full Scripture index.

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith" (Hebrews 12:1–2). Most Christians know the verse. Fewer know the passage it closes, or the epistle it belongs to.

This study reads the great chapter of faith where it stands. It begins with Hebrews as a whole: how it opens and closes, its plan, its five warnings, and to whom it was written. It then shows that 10:32–12:3 is one passage, framed on either side of chapter 11 by matching words: "call to remembrance the former days," "ye have need of patience," and Habakkuk's "the just shall live by faith," which is quoted three times in Scripture.

Chapter 11 is then taken verse by verse, from Abel, Enoch and Noah through Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, to Moses, the Passover, the Red Sea, Jericho and Rahab. It continues to the faith that conquered kingdoms and the faith that was sawn asunder, and both are "by faith." Each witness is traced back to the Old Testament record, and each "by faith" is shown to follow something God had said.

The race itself closes the study: laying aside the weight and the sin, running with patience, and looking unto Jesus. He alone has finished the course, and he was raised, ascended, and set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Every argument is weighed for the reader, and the study names what would change its conclusions. It includes word studies, the Old Testament record behind each witness, a fair look at who wrote Hebrews, and a full Scripture index.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ

A complete, verse-by-verse presentation of the book of Revelation. All 404 verses are printed and explained, staying faithful to the words of Scripture and held to this library's research standards.

"And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: … So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." — Nehemiah 8:5, 8

Ezra's way is the pattern for this study: open the book, read it distinctly, give the sense and bring the reader to understanding. Part One gets the reader ready for the main presentation. It covers what the book is, who wrote it and to whom, how its figurative language works, how it is structured and which earlier prophecies point to it. The verse-by-verse presentation then goes through Revelation from beginning to end, explaining its words, figures of speech, numbers and cross-references so the reader can see what the book actually says. The Appendices show the research behind it: the questions weighed, the other views considered and the evidence for each conclusion.

Let Every Soul Be Subject": Settling Romans 13:1-7 and What "Ordained of God" Actually Claims
An Open Investigation — Testing Civil Authority and "the Higher Powers" Against Context and the Greek Text

Romans 13:1-7 looks, on its face, like an abrupt swerve from Paul's sustained doctrine straight into "be subject unto the higher powers" — and "the powers that be are ordained of God" can sound like a blank check for any ruler, regardless of character. This study tests that reading directly against the Greek text, the passage's own context, and scripture's own established pattern, rather than starting from a preset conclusion. Traces the word behind "ordained" (tasso) across scripture's other uses of it for rulers — Nebuchadnezzar named God's "servant" in Jeremiah 27, Pilate told his authority was "given from above" at the very moment of his worst use of it, Pharaoh raised up in Romans 9:17 itself — showing that "ordained of God" is positional language about an office, never a character reference for the person holding it. Shows Romans 13:1-7 continuing Romans 12:19's "vengeance is mine" rather than departing from it, and identifies the real, scripturally-stated limit on submission (Acts 5:29, with Exodus 1 and Daniel 3 as proof it can be kept and blessed). Written for believers wrestling honestly with what scripture actually claims about civil authority, rather than what popular reading assumes it claims.

CHURCH TRADITION AND PRACTICE

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.

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 Cup of Blessing: What Scripture Says About Communion

Most churches take communion, but they disagree on what the bread and cup are and how often to take them. Some take it every Sunday, some once a month, some once a year, and some never. Some hold that the bread becomes Christ's flesh, others that it is only a symbol. This study sets every tradition aside to look and see what Scripture actually says. It follows the bread and the cup from Melchizedek, the priest who brought bread and wine to Abram, through the first Passover, where the blood protected Israel and the lamb, eaten whole with not a bone broken, gave strength for the journey. Israel came out of Egypt with "not one feeble person among their tribes." It sits at the Hebrew table Jesus and His apostles knew, where God is blessed for the food, "bread" means the whole meal, and the cup after supper was called "the cup of blessing." From John's Gospel it shows that the Last Supper came the evening before the Passover, and that Jesus died as the Lamb at the very hour the Passover lambs were being slain. It explains what Jesus meant by "This is my body" and "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Through Paul's letters to the church, it shows that communion means fellowship, what "unworthily" and "discerning the Lord's body" really mean, and why Scripture says "as oft as" and sets no number. It also shows the wholeness the bread and cup proclaim: forgiveness through His blood, and healing by His stripes. It closes with how believers can come to the table without a script, and how every meal can be received with thanksgiving in the name of Jesus Christ.

The First Century Church: Is That What We Have Today?
Christ the Head of His Body — What God Wanted, What It Became, and What He Gives Us in Grace

Scripture shows the first-century church as a household of believers. They met in homes, every member took part, local elders served them, and travelling workers taught and moved on. Every gift went to people in need and to those who taught the word. This study lets scripture speak first and throughout, then traces through history how that household was gradually turned into an institution, with buildings, a paid clergy, power and money at its centre. It sets present-day church finances and practices beside the first-century pattern, gently and without condemnation. It closes with what God gives His household in this administration of grace: gathered in homes, fed from the word, reaching outward one person at a time, with Christ alone as head.

SCRIPTURE AND TODAY'S ISSUES

Christian Nationalism: Wrong Kingdom, Wrong Fruit

What is Christian nationalism, where did it come from, and does it agree with scripture? This study answers in two parts.

First, Christian nationalism as a political ideology, the fusing of church and state, is tested against scripture and found to be in error at real and specific points. The study traces it from colonial "city upon a hill" sermons to the Seven Mountain Mandate. It asks honestly whether America was founded as a Christian nation, and lays out the strongest case in its favour in full. Then it weighs that case against Christ's own words: "My kingdom is not of this world." It shows why Israel's God-given theocracy does not carry over to the church today, and why the joining of rule and worship belongs to Christ's coming kingdom, not to this administration.

Second, godly civic faithfulness is not merely allowed by scripture. It is commanded:

The answer to the wrong kingdom is not withdrawal, but godly patriotism with its eyes on the right one.

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

Is anyone else out there, among the stars, or already here in the objects the government now calls Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena? This study gives a clear answer up front. Scripture's own account of creation, sin and redemption leaves no room for another race of intelligent, fallen, redeemable beings.

It begins with the facts: what UFOs and UAPs are, from Kenneth Arnold to the congressional hearings and file releases of 2026, and what most sightings turn out to be. It states the case for alien life fairly. Then it builds scripture's answer step by step:

It also examines the "ancient astronaut" theory, Genesis 6 and Ezekiel's vision, showing angels, not aliens. The conclusion is good news, not a letdown: alone in the universe, but never alone in Christ. Along the way, the study shows how to use the subject to share the gospel.