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.
View Ad Fontes → - 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.
View What Horse? → - 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.
View The Hollow Altar → - Start here · 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.
View KEPT →
Books on Amazon
Single-volume books — each a complete study in its own right.
- Standalone
Ad Fontes
Textual Criticism for Lutheran Laity
How we got the biblical text — and why ordinary Lutherans can read it with confidence.
View Ad Fontes → - Standalone
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.
View Ad Fontes: The Old Testament Text → - Standalone
Just Enough Greek
50 Words Every Confessional Lutheran Should Know
Fifty Greek words that open up the New Testament — no seminary required.
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50 More Greek Words for Confessional Lutherans
Just Enough Greek, Volume Two
Fifty more Greek words that open up the New Testament — the sequel to Just Enough Greek.
View 50 More Greek Words for Confessional Lutherans → - Standalone
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.
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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.
View What Horse? → - Standalone
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.
View The Hollow Altar → - Standalone
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.
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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.
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Data & Dust
A Christian Confession in the Age of the Machine
A confessional Lutheran reckoning with the machine age — data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence measured against the God who formed us from dust.
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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.
View KEPT → - Standalone
THORN
A Lutheran Word for the Christian Who Struggles
For the Christian who still struggles — and wonders what that means.
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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.
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Counterfeit Harvest
A Confessional Lutheran Field Guide to the Remnant Cults
A field guide to the groups that grew up at Christianity's edge — what they teach, where it came from, and the Gospel they leave out.
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The Purest Gospel
A Lutheran Layman's Exposition on Romans
A confessional Lutheran exposition of Romans for thoughtful laypeople, teachers, and pastors — Paul's greatest letter, opened rather than explained away.
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With These Words
Paul's Letters to the Thessalonians
A verse-by-verse confessional Lutheran study of Paul's earliest letters — and the words with which Christians comfort one another in the face of death.
View With These Words →
Beyond the books above, everything on this site's Bible Studies page is free: five manuscript-length studies of Scripture to read as PDFs, and twelve verse-by-verse congregational volumes, each with a free Teacher's Guide.