Books, Bible studies, essays, and free resources for ordinary Christians—rooted in Scripture and formed by Word and Sacrament.
Read Scripture with greater confidence and learn how confessional Lutheran teaching receives the text.
Find older, deeper ground in Christ’s gifts when religious striving has worn you out.
Hear a word of grace in doubt, addiction, grief, moral injury, and spiritual fatigue.
Who decided which books belong in the Bible — and which English Bible should you read? The third Ad Fontes volume follows the Word the church received and the translations that hand it on.
Expanded Bible study tools for the Old and New Testaments, now in version 4.4.1.
A growing collection of books, studies, essays, and tools for reading Scripture and receiving Christ’s gifts with confidence.
Standalone titles for readers of Scripture, weary evangelicals, and Christians in the struggle.
17 books
Browse books →Full-length studies of Scripture and selected books for congregational use.
9 studies
Browse Bible studies →Plain answers to questions Christians actually ask, searchable by topic.
200 questions answered
Browse questions →Free handbooks, class sessions, and preparation tools for lay teachers.
Browse teaching materials →A searchable explorer and books for reading the New Testament more closely.
250 Greek words
Browse Greek resources →Field guides, position papers, handouts, samples, and full-length studies.
Browse free guides and downloads →A response to the claim that John Boswell proved the Bible says nothing about homosexual practice. Honoring a scholar means testing his arguments, and Boswell's have not survived the testing. The church does not need a softer Romans 1. It needs Romans 3.
Read →You cannot produce the faith of Romans 10:9 by trying harder to believe. You receive it by hearing Christ preached.
Read →God is known now under the cross, and his glory is given then, at the revelation of Christ.
Read →A confessional Lutheran look at what Alcoholics Anonymous and Celebrate Recovery get right, where both stop short of the gospel, and where a man in recovery can find what no meeting is able to give him.
Read →The Canon and the English Bible for the Laity
Who decided which books belong in the Bible — and which English Bible should you read? The third Ad Fontes volume follows the Word the church received and the translations that hand it on.
A Confessional Lutheran Invitation to Weary Evangelicals
For evangelicals who are tired — an invitation to something older, deeper, and full of grace.
Raising Baptized Children Without the Revivalist Playbook
A baptized child is not a prospect. A guide for parents and teachers who want the classroom, the kitchen table, and the VBS week to teach from the gift God has already given.
A Layman Reads the Ambassador Hymnal
The hymnal is the book a congregation opens more often than any other except the Bible — and the least examined object in the building. A page-by-page walk through the Ambassador Hymnal, and a three-question test for hearing what you sing.
