Books
Single-volume books available on Amazon. Looking for the free manuscript-length studies or the Bible-study curriculum? Those live on the Bible Studies page.
The four books to start with
If you read nothing else here, read one of these — each is a doorway into the rest of the catalog.
- Start here · For Bible Readers
Ad Fontes
Textual Criticism for Lutheran Laity
How we got the biblical text — and why ordinary Lutherans can read it with confidence.
- Start here
What Horse?
Common Misconceptions About What the Bible Actually Says
The Bible doesn’t say what you’ve heard it says. Here’s what it actually says.
- Start here · For Weary Evangelicals
The Hollow Altar
A Confessional Lutheran Invitation to Weary Evangelicals
For evangelicals who are tired — an invitation to something older, deeper, and full of grace.
- Start here · For the Struggling
THORN
A Lutheran Word for the Christian Who Struggles
For the Christian who still struggles — and wonders what that means.
Books on Amazon
Single-volume books — each a complete study in its own right.
- For Bible Readers
Ad Fontes
Textual Criticism for Lutheran Laity
How we got the biblical text — and why ordinary Lutherans can read it with confidence.
- For Bible Readers
Ad Fontes: The Old Testament Text
How We Got Our Hebrew Bible
How we got the Hebrew Bible — and why ordinary Lutherans can trust the Old Testament text.
- Dispensationalism
Judeo-Christian Values?
A Confessional Lutheran Reckoning with Dispensationalism, Christian Zionism, and the Gospel They Replaced
What dispensationalism and Christian Zionism replaced — and how to recover the Gospel they obscured.
- Biblical misconceptions
What Horse?
Common Misconceptions About What the Bible Actually Says
The Bible doesn’t say what you’ve heard it says. Here’s what it actually says.
- For Weary Evangelicals
The Hollow Altar
A Confessional Lutheran Invitation to Weary Evangelicals
For evangelicals who are tired — an invitation to something older, deeper, and full of grace.
- For Weary Evangelicals
The Altar Call, the Anxious Bench, and the Empty Pew
A Former Atheist’s Case for the Rest Outside You
You walked the aisle and prayed the prayer — so why the sleepless doubt? A former atheist’s case for an assurance that rests outside you, in Christ.
- For Weary Evangelicals
For You
Baptism, Absolution, the Lord’s Supper, and the Preached Word
Forgiveness is not an inward feeling to recover. It is a gift God delivers for you — in water, spoken absolution, bread and wine, and the preached Word.
- For Weary Evangelicals
Grace Withheld
The Army That Feeds the Body but Starves the Soul
Rigorous but never cruel, Grace Withheld is written not to wound the Salvation Army but to call it home — and to convict the sacramental churches that kept the gifts and let them grow cold.
- Artificial intelligence
Dust & Data
A Christian Confession in the Age of the Machine
Artificial intelligence promises salvation by ascent. This confessional Lutheran response calls the thing what it is — and asks what it means to be dust God has spoken to.
- For Weary Evangelicals
The Left Hand
Vocation, Neighbor, and the Christian Life
You did not miss God’s will for your life. Vocation is received, not discovered: God is already at work through your ordinary callings, and none of them measures whether you are His.
- Hymnody
By Heart
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.
- For the Struggling
KEPT
Sobriety, Grace, and the Hand That Won’t Let Go
Sobriety is not self-rescue. A word of grace for the addict Christ refuses to let go.
- For the Struggling
Reverie
A memoir of addiction, music, and the ordinary people whose invitations kept putting the next performance — and the next day — on the calendar.
- For the Struggling
THORN
A Lutheran Word for the Christian Who Struggles
For the Christian who still struggles — and wonders what that means.
- For the Struggling
A MAN OF BLOOD
The Warrior’s Wounded Conscience and the Blood That Cleanses It
A confessional Lutheran theology of moral injury — and the blood of Christ that cleanses the warrior’s wounded conscience itself.
The Bible Studies page also gathers 9 free manuscript-length studies of Scripture and selected books with free leader material.