For Bible Readers
You want to read Scripture with more confidence — and teach it to others.
Maybe you have read the Bible for years and still feel like you are reading someone else’s mail — that the people who really understand it went to seminary, and the rest of us take their word for it. That feeling is common. It is also wrong. The Scriptures were written to be read aloud in ordinary congregations, to fishermen and tentmakers and household servants, and they have not stopped being for you.
Two of these books clear away the obstacles: where the biblical text came from and whether you can trust it, and the handful of Greek words that carry the New Testament’s weight. Neither assumes anything more than a willingness to read.
You can start today, for free: the Greek Word Explorer opens its words in full — what each means, where you’ll meet it in Scripture, and what confessional Lutherans hear in it.
And if you teach — or have ever been talked into teaching — the complete online Bible study series below were built for adult classes, small groups, and personal reading.
- Best place to begin
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.
- 1–2 Thessalonians
With These Words
Paul’s Letters to the Thessalonians
A free, eleven-session confessional Lutheran study of Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians — words of comfort for a grieving church, read without the prophecy charts.
- Romans
The Purest Gospel
A Confessional Lutheran Exposition of Romans
A free, full-length confessional Lutheran exposition of Romans — fourteen movements and nine extended excursuses that read Paul’s greatest letter by the distinction between Law and Gospel.
