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Everything on this page is free. Take what serves your congregation, your class, or your own reading — and if these are useful to you, Ordinary Means is where new material is announced first.

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New to confessional Lutheranism? What It Means to Be Confessional Lutheran (PDF · 205 KB)
Teaching an adult class? begin with Under the Word
Choosing material for a class? browse the Bible studies and class materials
Untangling dispensationalism? the dispensationalism study library
Want Greek helps? the Greek Word Explorer

Free studies and commentaries

Full-length studies and commentaries, free to read, download, and use in a class.

Once for All Delivered — A Greek Word Study of the Letter of Jude
The Knowledge of Him — A Greek Word Study of the Second Letter of Peter
No Other Gospel — A Greek Word Study of the Letter to the Galatians
That You May Believe — A Greek Word Study of the Gospel of John
Worthy Is the Lamb — A Confessional Lutheran Commentary on the Revelation of St. John
Guard the Deposit — The Shared Greek Vocabulary of 1–2 Timothy and Titus
The Purest Gospel — A Confessional Lutheran Exposition of Romans
With These Words — Paul’s Letters to the Thessalonians
For Nothing — A Study of the Book of Job

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Class materials and teaching tools

Handbooks, printable sessions, and preparation tools for adult Bible classes and personal study.

Weekly Scripture Studies
Downloadable guides for Saturday study and preparation for Sunday's sermon.
Under the Word — handbook, Field Guide, and printable teaching tools
Online and downloadable Bible studies
Dispensationalism study library and six-week adult class

Online study and reference tools

Browser-based tools and topical guides for studying Scripture and the Lutheran confession; no download required.

Position papers for lay teachers

Short, plain-language papers on questions that come up in adult Bible class.

What It Means to Be Confessional Lutheran (PDF · 205 KB)
Distinguishing Law and Gospel (PDF · 230 KB)
The Sacrament of Holy Baptism (PDF · 221 KB)
The Lord’s Supper (PDF · 231 KB)
Confession & Absolution (PDF · 233 KB)
Where Non-Lutheran Assumptions Creep In (PDF · 239 KB)

Recent essays

The five newest longer-form essays on the confessional Lutheran faith — free to read, share, and hand on.

Honor to Whom Honor Is Due — John Boswell, the Word Paul Borrowed from Moses, and a Mercy That Does Not Need a New Dictionary
The Word Is Near You — Romans 10:9 and the Confession God Puts in Your Mouth
Cross Now, Glory Then — A Response to Christopher Jackson
Confession Has Two Parts — Alcoholics Anonymous, Celebrate Recovery, and the Word the Rooms Cannot Speak
An Open Book — The Berean Bibles and the Lutheran Reader

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