The featured studies

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.

38 studies, 2 as cards, 36 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.

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

9 studies, 0 as cards, 9 in the register

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

50 studies, 8 as cards, 42 in the register

• LThe Lord's PrayerPhrase by phrase — the Old Testament roots under each petition, the Jewish prayers it spoke alongside, and Matthew's and Luke's forms honestly compared.
• BThe BeatitudesEight blessings from the mountain — each with roots deep in the Psalms and Isaiah — and the shape of the life Jesus calls blessed.
• KThe Kingdom of Heaven: Matthew's Great SubjectWhy Matthew alone says 'of heaven,' and a kingdom already at hand yet not consummated in the present age.
• PParables of JesusThe kingdom told in stories — some forty parables of Jesus, gathered into seven clusters and opened one door at a time.
• PPrayer in Luke — Jesus at Every HingeThe Gospel of prayer: Jesus praying at the baptism, before the Twelve, before the confession, on the mountain, and from the cross.
• GThe Great Reversal — the Ledger of LukeLuke keeps accounts: the low lifted, the self-secure emptied, the Magnificat, the banquet, Lazarus, and Zacchaeus as one double-entry ledger.
• KThe Kingdom ParablesMatthew 13 is one teaching day with two rooms — four parables from a boat to the multitude, four in a house to the disciples — and the chapter's own hinges show the floorplan.
• WWhy Jesus Spoke in ParablesThe disciples asked the question outright — Matthew 13:10 — and Jesus answered it from Isaiah 6. One form of speech that reveals and conceals at once, and the text says both without blushing.

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.

1 studies, 0 as cards, 1 in the register