The featured studies

One study for each book, with the studies of how the Bible came to us and how its writers wrote. This is the place to begin a book from end to end.

114 studies, 8 as cards, 106 in the register

• GGenesisFrom the cosmos to a coffin in Egypt: the four movements, the study elements, and every Genesis featured study in one hub.
• EExodus: the Study GuideRedemption's master-type: the four-movement architecture: bondage, deliverance, covenant, dwelling, from the brick-kiln to the glory that filled the tent.
• DDeuteronomy: the Study GuideMoses' last sermon, cast as a covenant treaty, the historical prologue, the law restated, chapter 28's blessing-and-curse ledger, and the climactic choose life.
• HHebrews: the Study GuideBetter: seven rungs of superiority, five warnings braided through them, and a High Priest who sat down.
• LLeviticus: the Study GuideHow a holy God dwells among an unclean people without consuming them, the five offerings, the priesthood, and the Day of Atonement at the book's hinge.
• AActs, the Study GuideWhat the risen Christ kept doing from the throne: the 1:8 arc from a Jerusalem upper room to the heart of Rome, paced by six refrains, the word of God grew.
• JJoshua: the Study GuideNot one good promise failed: the fourfold march into the land, the name that is itself the Christ-connection, and the conquest's hardest question presented at full strength.
• MMatthew, the Study GuideThe Gospel of the King: five discourses, ten fulfillment formulas, and a Jewish gospel that ends by opening to all nations.

These studies take a chapter, a song or a single teaching and read it line by line. Each stays inside one passage and follows its own movement.

128 studies, 8 as cards, 120 in the register

• SThe Sermon on the MountThe longest teaching of Jesus in any Gospel — a floorplan you can walk, opening on blessing and ending on a house built to stand.
• LThe Law FulfilledWhat Jesus meant by fulfilling rather than destroying the law, and how the six sayings after it read the commandments back to the heart they came from.
• RThe Resurrection Chapter — 1 Corinthians 15The earliest written resurrection-testimony in the New Testament, the reductio that runs from 'if Christ is not raised' to 'but now hath Christ been raised.'
• AAll Scripture Is God-Breathed2 Timothy 3:16-17: theopneustos, the four profits, and what the verse does and does not settle about the canon.
• GThe Great Commission — Matthew 28:18–20All authority, all nations, all things, always, the four alls of the Commission that closes Matthew's Gospel.
• LThe Lord Is My Shepherd — Psalm 23Six verses walked as a road through five terrains, and the shepherd-thread that runs from Psalm 23 to the Good Shepherd of John 10.
• MThe Mind of Christ — Philippians 2:5–11The hymn's own V-shape: descent to the death of the cross, then exaltation to the name above every name, and the mind Paul commands the church to share.
• PThe Penitential PsalmsSeven psalms read together as one set since at least the sixth century, each walking the same road from trouble owned to confession made to pardon received.

The events themselves: what happened, where the retelling has drifted from the text, and what the scene was really like.

177 studies, 8 as cards, 169 in the register

• WThe Wilderness GenerationNumbers' wilderness cycle read the way the New Testament reads it, a standing warning to the church, not just a record of the past.
• EThe Exile and the ReturnThree deportations, seventy years reckoned two ways, Cyrus's decree corroborated by the Cyrus Cylinder, and three returns under Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah.
• CThe Creation WeekSix ordinary days: God forms three realms, then fills them, and crowns the whole 'very good.'
• BThe Binding of IsaacThe strongest type in Genesis of the Father offering the Son, the beloved son, the wood, the ram, and the mountain that looks to Calvary.
• FThe FloodA real, global Deluge: judgment and mercy running together, pivoting on five words: 'And God remembered Noah.'
• JThe Judges CycleJudges' six-stage formula run six times, with the 'land had rest' notice vanishing after Gideon.
• FThe Fall of JerichoNo siege engine, no battering ram: a city falls to a trumpet and a shout, with Rahab saved and Achan destroyed.
• JJacob's LadderA fleeing deceiver lies down on a stone and meets God, a ladder set between heaven and earth that Jesus claims as Himself.

Lives told from first mention to last, and the nations, families and parties around Israel and the church. The full roster of names stands on the people hub; these are the studies built around one life or one people.

89 studies, 8 as cards, 81 in the register

• JJosephThe longest sustained Christ-pattern in the Old Testament, beloved, betrayed, descended, exalted, the giver of bread, the forgiver.
• MMelchizedek: the King-Priest of SalemThree texts a thousand years apart, and the whole case that a man from Judah is our High Priest.
• TThe Twelve TribesThe promise narrows to one wrestling man, then opens into twelve tribes whose names are cut into the gates of heaven.
• GThe Genealogy of Jesus: Matthew's 3×14Fourteen, fourteen, fourteen: Matthew's stated design, the four women written into the royal line, and the Jeconiah hinge Luke's genealogy resolves.
• SSarah: Mother of NationsThe wife who laughed at the promise, was twice passed off as a sister, and is the only woman whose age at death Scripture records.
• EEve: The Mother of All LivingThe first woman, the first promise of a seed that would bruise the serpent, and the first funeral, read forward from Genesis 3 rather than backward from the Fall.
• RRachel and LeahTwo sisters married to one man, the tribes that came from each, and the weeping mother Jeremiah and Matthew both call by Rachel's name.
• TThe Table of NationsSeventy nations descend from three sons of Noah — a genealogy that is really a map of the whole post-Flood world, and the doorway that narrows to one chosen line.

The ground a story stands on: what was built there, what was found there, and what Scripture makes of the name afterwards.

50 studies, 8 as cards, 42 in the register

• TThe TabernacleA floor plan of the gospel. Eight furniture pieces, three concentric zones, one veil torn the moment Christ died. Among the most architecturally complete typological structures in Scripture.
• EEdenThe garden read as the first sanctuary, with the river, the gold, the guarded east gate, and the tree that returns on the last page of Revelation.
• BBabylonOne city from the plain of Shinar to the last book of the Bible: the tower, the empire that burned the temple, and the name John gives every power that trades in souls.
• CThe CityBabel, Sodom, Jerusalem and the New Jerusalem read as one line: what a city is for in Scripture, and what makes one stand or fall.
• EEzekiel's Temple, Ezekiel 40–48The measured temple of Ezekiel 40–48 drawn from its own cubits, the glory returning by the east gate, and a river that heals a dead sea.
• NThe New JerusalemScripture's last vision is a city measured with a golden reed — a cube of gold where Eden is restored and God dwells with men.
• SThe Seven Churches of RevelationAsia Minor, late 1st century. Seven cities along a clockwise postal route — Ephesus to Laodicea — each receiving a letter from the risen Christ. Praises, rebukes, promises. A Matt-13 parallel reading discoverable for those who want it.
• OOutside the CampWhere the sin offering was burned, where the leper waited, and where Jesus died: one place in the law that Hebrews turns into a call.

What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.

366 studies, 8 as cards, 358 in the register

• LThe LambRevelation announces the Lion of Judah, then shows a Lamb standing as though slain.
• DThe Day of AtonementLeviticus 16, walked in the chapter's own order — one man, one day a year, within the veil; two goats that are one offering; and the letter to the Hebrews reading the whole day as a shadow of Christ.
• JJustification by Faith: the Verdict of the CrossHow Romans says a guilty person is declared right with God, and what faith does.
• PPassoverThe night a lamb's blood turned judgment aside — and the Lamb it was always drawing toward.
• AThe Abrahamic CovenantGod binds Himself by oath to Abraham, land, seed, and blessing to all nations, sealed in a faith counted for righteousness.
• EThe Exodus, Redemption's Master-TypePlagues, Passover, sea, and song: the deliverance from Egypt as the pattern every later rescue in Scripture is measured by.
• SThe Sacrificial SystemThe five offerings of Leviticus 1–7 — burnt, grain, peace, sin, guilt — laid out as the structured system they are, and Hebrews 7–10 as the canon's own commentary on all of them.
• DThe Davidic Covenant — 2 Samuel 7David wants to build God a house; God promises to build David one instead, a throne established for ever, quoted directly of Jesus in Luke, Acts, and Hebrews.

Questions Christians answer differently. Each study sets out the texts both sides read, the positions with their holders, and where this site's tradition lands.

37 studies, 8 as cards, 29 in the register

• EEternal Security, and the Five Warnings of HebrewsJohn 10:28 and the five warnings of Hebrews set side by side, with the readings named and the cost of each stated plainly.
• FThe Four Schools of RevelationFuturist, preterist, historicist, idealist: four lenses over the same book, tested against the beast, the millennium and Babylon.
• AArchaeology and the BibleSixteen excavated objects that touch the text, sorted by how much each one actually carries, every row states what the object does not show.
• FFaith and WorksJames 2:14-26 beside Romans 3:28-4:5: the same Abraham, two moments, harmonized.
• CCovenant Theology and DispensationalismTwo systems read the same sixty-six books and draw two different maps of history, seven test passages read both ways, both at full strength.
• JJacob Have I Loved: the Election ThreadGen 25:23 → Obadiah → Malachi 1 → Romans 9: one election thread across two millennia of text, with the hard question of 'hated' held honestly.
• IIsaiah 53 and the RabbisWhich rabbis read the fourth Servant Song of the Messiah and which of Israel, quoted in their own words, with the point where the readings part.
• GGematria and Its LimitsWhat the letter-number system is, where the Bible itself uses it, and the four tests that separate a real numeric pattern from one a reader could find in any long text.

A picture or a word traced across the canon, from its first mention to the place it comes to rest.

126 studies, 8 as cards, 118 in the register

• FFireThe bush that burns and is not consumed, the pillar, the altar, the tongues at Pentecost, and the lake at the end: what fire does in Scripture is refine, judge and reveal.
• SThe SeedOne word running from Genesis 3:15 to Galatians 3:16, through the sowing parables, and why Paul rests an argument on its being singular.
• CCreation to New CreationThe Bible begins in a garden and ends in a city — and the city has the garden in the middle of it. Seven explicit textual echoes bind Genesis 1–2 to Revelation 21–22.
• WWaterThe flood, the rock at Horeb, the well at noon, the pool at Siloam, and the river from the throne: what washing, thirst and drowning mean across the canon.
• NThe Numbers of ScriptureEvery number 1–40 from the catalog, each marked as visible structural pattern or associative tradition, the honesty rail stated plainly.
• FThe Fulfillment Formula (Matthew's Ten Quotations)Ten times Matthew stops the story to say 'that it might be fulfilled', the sources, the sites, and the three modes of fulfilment.
• AApocalyptic LiteratureThe Bible's genre of the unveiling — from Daniel's beasts to Revelation's throne, where history is shown its appointed end.
• TTheological WordsEight words that carry the Bible's theology — agape, chesed, logos, hilastērion, berith, shalom, emunah, doxa — each a door into its full workbench page.

The dispositions Scripture commands and commends, such as gratitude, each grounded in God's own character. Each value page outlines the value and opens onto studies of its texts, stories, words and practice. Each value opens on its value page where one is built, and on its subject page until then. A value with neither shows its key text and the studies the plan names for it, and its page is planned.

47 values and subjects, 8 as cards, 39 in the register

• GGratitude and thankfulnessGratitude is the thanks people owe to God for who He is and for everything He gives, commanded from the Law of Moses to the letters of Paul.9 studies
• JJoy and rejoicingJoy is gladness in God, which He commands of His people, gives by His Spirit and keeps through sorrow.8 studies
• LLoveLove in Scripture is the self-giving goodwill God shows in Christ and commands of His people toward Him and toward one another.4 studies
• FFaith and trustFaith is trust in God and in His word, grounded in God's own faithfulness.6 studies
• HHopeHope is a sure expectation resting on God, an anchor for the soul.7 studies
• HHumilityHumility is the lowly mind that God dwells with and rewards with grace.6 studies
• MMeekness and gentlenessMeekness in Scripture is the gentleness that bears wrong without retaliation and leaves vindication to God.5 studies
• PPatience and longsufferingPatience in Scripture is the slowness to anger God shows to sinners and the steady endurance He asks of His people under wrong, suffering and delay.6 studies