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Wisdom and its edges
A woman in your group has prayed over her adult son for twenty years.
Why context matters
If you've ever walked into the middle of a conversation, you know how easy it is to misread what's being said.
What the Church Is
Ask ten Christians why they attend church and you will get ten different answers.
What Sin Actually Is
Most people, even churchgoers, think of sin mainly as a list.
Union with Christ
Ask most Christians to list the blessings of salvation and they can.
The Work of Christ
When Jesus ascended, the disciples stood staring at the sky.
The Trinity
At the Jordan River, something happened that no single category in Jewish theology could contain.
The Return of Christ
Forty days after the resurrection, eleven men stood on a hillside outside Jerusalem watching Jesus rise until a cloud took him from their sight.
The Person of the Spirit
In a lot of conversations about the Holy Spirit, the language drifts toward atmosphere.
The Old Testament Arc
Ask most churchgoers what the Old Testament is about, and they will name a character: Abraham, Moses, David.
The Knowable God
Picture Paul on the Areopagus in Athens, mid-first century.
The Kingdom of God
When John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, he had one sentence: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt 3:2).
The Gospel Through the Canon
Two disciples are walking away from Jerusalem, three days after the crucifixion, convinced the story is over.
The Gospel Announced
Imagine a soldier stationed in a remote post in 1945, cut off from communications for weeks.
The Fruit of the Spirit
Ask most Christians what the gifts of the Spirit are and they will give you a list.
The Deity of Christ
When Jesus returned to Nazareth after beginning his ministry, the crowd looked at him and asked, "Is not this the carpenter?" (Mark 6:3).
Temple and Presence
When the priests completed the dedication of Solomon's temple and stepped back, something happened that stopped them in their tracks.
Sufficient and Clear
A woman in a small group held her Bible open on her lap and said something the leader hadn't expected.
Sovereignty and Responsibility
Peter stood before a crowd that had watched Jesus die five weeks earlier.
Sanctification, The Long Walk
A man in his sixties, a follower of Jesus for forty years, sat across from his pastor and said something that surprised them both.
Revelation, Four Frameworks
Two people in the same Bible study can read Revelation 13 and arrive at conclusions so different they wonder if they read the same text.
Resurrection and Judgment
Walk through any ancient Roman graveyard and you find the same inscription carved into stone after stone: "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." Four...
Regeneration and Sanctification
A new believer once pulled her pastor aside three months after her baptism, visibly shaken.
Reflective Reading
At first, we come to Scripture to learn, to understand what it says and what it means.
Reading the Psalms
Psalm 88 ends like this: "my companions have become darkness" (Ps 88:18, ESV).
Reading the Gospels
Someone in your group has almost certainly asked it, even if they phrased it as a doubt: "Why does John put the temple cleansing at the beginning of Jes...
Reading the Epistles
Walk into almost any gym locker room in America and you'll find Philippians 4:13 on the wall.
Reading by genre
Picture someone reading a legal contract the way they'd read a love letter.
Prophets as covenant voice
Picture Amos standing in the royal sanctuary at Bethel, an outsider from Tekoa who tends sycamore trees, delivering a verdict to a prosperous nation.
Prayer Grounded in Truth
A woman in a church small group once confided that she had stopped praying.
New Heavens, New Earth
A man in his seventies once told me he had spent his whole Christian life waiting to leave.
Marks of the Church
You have probably sat in a service that had all the features: a building, a crowd, music, someone speaking.
Made in His Image
There is a moment in a neonatal ward when a nurse hands a premature infant to a parent for the first time.
Justification by Faith
Imagine a courtroom where the verdict has already been read.
Inspiration of Scripture
Somewhere around AD 65, a man named Paul is sitting in a Roman prison, aware that his execution is not far off, writing a last letter to a younger pasto...
Incommunicable Attributes
Moses is standing at a burning bush in the wilderness of Midian, a fugitive tending someone else's flock, and he asks the most reasonable question a per...
Image and Glory
A medieval cathedral builder carved faces into stone at heights no one would ever see from the ground.
How We Got the Canon
One of the most persistent myths in popular Christian culture goes like this: Constantine called the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, bishops voted on which...
Gospel Equilibrium
Every generation of Christians has to relearn the balance of the gospel.
How to study the Bible with Protos
Most of us want to grow in our Bible reading and aren't quite sure how to move past "reading a chapter." This guide gives you a simple 5-step rhythm you...
Gathered Worship
Picture the square before the Water Gate in Jerusalem, sometime in the fifth century before Christ.
From Then to Now
A cell group leader once told her group that Deuteronomy 22:8 was God's instruction to put railings on their balconies.
Four Gospels, One Christ
Around 170 AD, a Syrian scholar named Tatian sat down and solved what he took to be an obvious problem.
Elders, Deacons, Members
Picture a congregation in Crete, perhaps forty years after the resurrection.
Eisegesis vs exegesis
Paul once wrote to Timothy, "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the wor...
Discipline and Restoration
A man in one congregation had been sleeping with his father's wife.
Dealing With Doubt
A woman in her thirties had been in the same small group for four years.
Covenant as Spine
Most first-time readers of the Bible experience it as a library of disconnected books.
Contextual study
Most of Scripture was written by someone to someone else before it was written for us.
Communicable Attributes
A group leader I know once told me she had stopped talking about God's holiness in her Tuesday-night study.
Common Interpretive Errors
Most Bible teaching goes wrong before anyone opens their mouth.
Carrying the Word
The real proof of reflection has nothing to do with how much you write.
Baptism Across Traditions
Two devout Christians, both with Bibles open, disagree about baptism.
Authority and Inerrancy
A student in a Bible study once paused mid-session and asked a question that stopped the room cold: "If Matthew and Luke describe Judas dying differentl...
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