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What Early Christian Life Actually Looked Like (and Why We’d Barely Recognize It Today)
What did early Christian life involve? Explore work, shared meals, worship, mutual care, and the community practices that shaped the first believers.
Why Words Matter: How a Single Greek Preposition Can Change Your Theology — The Importance of Understanding Nuance
Explore how Greek grammar and prepositions affect biblical interpretation, and why a word’s meaning must be tested within its sentence and wider argument.
Why I Read the Bible the Way the Apostles Did
Explore the scriptural world of the apostles, including Greek Jewish Scriptures, textual diversity, and the relationship between reading and tradition.
What Does It Mean to Be Human?
What does it mean to be human in biblical theology? Explore embodiment, the image of God, and resurrection as foundations for theological anthropology.
Jesus: The Wandering Rabbi
Explore Jesus as a teacher calling apprentices, and read his easy yoke within the concrete demands and practices of discipleship.
We Preach Paul like a Therapist when he Wrote like a Prophet.
Recover the urgency of Paul’s letters by attending to rhetoric, audience, and circumstance, rather than reading every passage as private reassurance.
Mercy That Counts: How the Early Church Understood Charity, Reward, and Atonement
Explore charity, mercy, and reward in early Christian teaching, including the Didache’s account of generosity and responsibility toward others.
Wind, Conscience, and Calling: On Being Fully Yourself in Christ
A personal reflection on calling, conscience, and finding clarity in Christ amid the pressures of theological study and daily life.
Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind — But Not Like You Think
Read love is patient, love is kind within 1 Corinthians 12–14, where Paul addresses gifts, rivalry, and the life of a congregation learning to mature.
Salvation: God’s Initiative, Our Response
Explore salvation as God’s initiative calling for a human response, and consider how grace, trust, obedience, and transformation belong together.
Restoring Apostolic Faith 