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Resources
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.
Start with these
- New to confessional Lutheranism? What It Means to Be Confessional Lutheran
- Teaching an adult class? begin with Under the Word
- Choosing material for a class? browse the Bible studies and Teacher's Guides
- 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
Teacher's Guides and class materials
Leader materials for the Bible studies, plus handouts ready for an adult class or personal study.
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.
Recent essays
The five newest longer-form essays on the confessional Lutheran faith — free to read, share, and hand on.
- The God Who Talks Out Loud — On Hearing from God When You Hear Nothing
- The Leaven Was a Teaching — On the claim that Jesus cared about hearts, not doctrine
- The Christ Behind the Doctrine — On a graphic that makes you choose between theology and love
- The Trouble with "Some" — A question about other people's errors, answered honestly
- The Wrong Address — Why a Debate Group Could Never Have Given Her What She Came For