Bible Studies

A Biblical Foundation for Marriage

What Scripture teaches about covenant, love, sacrifice, communication, forgiveness, intimacy, and growing together in Christ.

Genesis 2Ephesians 5

Building a Christ-Centered Marriage

The practice rather than the principle: how two people actually build a shared life of worship, prayer, and honesty over years.

Ecclesiastes 4Psalm 127

Where Christians differ

Raising Children in Faith

Biblical principles for leading, discipling, correcting, encouraging, and loving children.

Deuteronomy 6Proverbs 22

Parenting With Purpose

The shape of a household: discipline, attention, rhythm, and what changes as children grow.

Proverbs 29Psalm 127

Forgiveness in the Family

The hardest place to forgive is usually the closest one. What Scripture says about long-standing hurt between people who share a name.

Genesis 45Matthew 18

A word of care

Friendship

Scripture treats friendship as a serious good, and describes it with unusual warmth.

1 Samuel 18Proverbs 17

Learning to Pray

What Scripture teaches about prayer, and how Christians develop a deeper and more consistent life of prayer.

Matthew 6Luke 11

When Faith Gets Hard

Doubt, questions, suffering, trust, and what Scripture says when belief does not feel easy.

Psalm 42Mark 9

Growing in Faith

Christian maturity is slow, ordinary, and mostly unspectacular. What growth looks like, and what actually produces it.

2 Peter 1Colossians 2

Following Jesus

What Jesus actually asked of the people who followed him — and what he promised them.

Mark 8Luke 9

Spiritual Disciplines

The old habits — Scripture, prayer, fasting, worship, rest, giving — and what they are and are not for.

Psalm 1Matthew 6

Trusting God

Trust when you cannot see the outcome — what Scripture asks, and what it does not promise.

Proverbs 3Psalm 23

Doubt

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, and Scripture treats it far more gently than most churches do.

Psalm 73Mark 9

How to Read the Bible

Where to start, how to read a book rather than a verse, and what to do when a passage will not open up.

Psalm 119Nehemiah 8

Understanding the Old Testament

Three quarters of the Bible, and the part most often skipped. How it is arranged, and how it holds together.

Genesis 12Exodus 20

Where scholars differ

Understanding the New Testament

Four gospels, a history, a stack of letters, and one apocalypse. What each is doing, and why the differences matter.

Matthew 5Acts 2

Where Christians differ

Difficult Bible Passages

Violence, silence, apparent contradiction, and the passages people quietly stop reading. How to sit with them honestly.

Job 38Ecclesiastes 1

Where Christians differ

How We Got the Bible

Manuscripts, canon, copying, translation, and history — the full exhibit, already in this section.

2 Timothy 32 Peter 1

Who Is God?

What Scripture says about God’s character — holy, near, just, patient — and what Christians mean by the Trinity.

Exodus 3Psalm 139

What the church has held

Who Is Jesus?

The central question of the New Testament, and the one Jesus put to his own followers.

Mark 8John 1

Keeping the claims apart

The Holy Spirit

The person of the Trinity Christians most often leave vague. What Scripture says the Spirit does.

John 14Acts 2

Where Christians differ

Salvation

What Christians mean when they say a person is saved — from what, by what, and for what.

John 3Romans 3

Where Christians differ

Grace

The word at the centre of the Christian vocabulary, and the hardest one to actually believe about yourself.

Ephesians 2Romans 5

Sin & Repentance

An unfashionable pair of words. What Scripture means by them, and why the second one is good news.

Psalm 51Romans 3

The Resurrection

The claim the whole faith stands on. What the accounts say, what historians can weigh, and what the church confesses.

Matthew 28Luke 24

Keeping the claims apart

Heaven & Eternal Life

What Scripture actually describes about the life to come — which is less than people assume, and better.

John 141 Corinthians 15

Where Christians differ

When Faith Gets Hard

Doubt, questions, suffering, trust, and what Scripture says when belief does not feel easy.

Psalm 42Mark 9

Trusting God

Trust when you cannot see the outcome — what Scripture asks, and what it does not promise.

Proverbs 3Psalm 23

Difficult Bible Passages

Violence, silence, apparent contradiction, and the passages people quietly stop reading. How to sit with them honestly.

Job 38Ecclesiastes 1

Where Christians differ

Heaven & Eternal Life

What Scripture actually describes about the life to come — which is less than people assume, and better.

John 141 Corinthians 15

Where Christians differ

Fear & Anxiety

What Scripture says to a mind that will not settle — and what it does not say.

Psalm 34Matthew 6

A word of care

Grief & Loss

Scripture does not hurry the grieving. What it gives them instead.

Psalm 23Lamentations 3

Doubt

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, and Scripture treats it far more gently than most churches do.

Psalm 73Mark 9

Suffering

The oldest question there is. What Scripture says, and what it refuses to say.

Job 1Romans 8

Where Christians differ

Temptation

How temptation works, what Jesus did with it, and what to do the next time.

Matthew 41 Corinthians 10

Anger

Scripture does not forbid anger. It is unusually specific about what to do with it.

Proverbs 15Matthew 5

Loneliness

A common and rarely named condition, including inside a full church building.

Genesis 2Psalm 25

Failure

What Scripture does with people who have failed badly — which is mostly to restore them.

Psalm 51Micah 7

Finding Your Purpose

Scripture answers the purpose question, but not usually in the form people are asking it.

Micah 6Jeremiah 29

Read it in context

Work & Calling

Most of your waking life happens at work. Scripture has more to say about that than most sermons do.

Genesis 2Ecclesiastes 3

Money & Stewardship

Jesus talked about money constantly. What he said, and how Christians handle it.

Proverbs 3Matthew 6

Generosity

Giving in Scripture is cheerful, proportional, and frequently inconvenient.

Malachi 3Luke 21

Where Christians differ

Leadership

Whether you lead a company, a class, or a household, Scripture inverts most of what leadership usually means.

Mark 101 Timothy 3

Serving Others

The towel and the basin — and what service looks like when nobody is watching.

Matthew 25John 13

Sharing Your Faith

How to talk about what you believe without a script, a pitch, or an argument.

Matthew 28Acts 1

Forgiveness in the Family

The hardest place to forgive is usually the closest one. What Scripture says about long-standing hurt between people who share a name.

Genesis 45Matthew 18

A word of care

Anger

Scripture does not forbid anger. It is unusually specific about what to do with it.

Proverbs 15Matthew 5

Dating & Relationships

Scripture never mentions dating. It has a great deal to say about the things dating is for.

Song of Songs 21 Corinthians 6

Where Christians differ

Friendship

Scripture treats friendship as a serious good, and describes it with unusual warmth.

1 Samuel 18Proverbs 17

Conflict & Reconciliation

The New Testament assumes Christians will fall out. It is remarkably practical about what to do next.

Matthew 5Matthew 18

Forgiveness

What forgiveness is, what it costs, and the things it is regularly confused with.

Matthew 18Luke 23

Communication

James spends a whole chapter on the tongue. Proverbs never stops. Here is why.

Proverbs 15Ephesians 4

Following Jesus

What Jesus actually asked of the people who followed him — and what he promised them.

Mark 8Luke 9

Christianity 101

If the whole thing is new to you, start here. No assumed vocabulary, no assumed background.

Mark 1John 3

What Is the Gospel?

The word means announcement, not advice. What is being announced.

Mark 1John 3

Baptism

What baptism is, what it is not, and what Baptists in particular hold about it.

Matthew 3Matthew 28

A Baptist position, named as one

Communion

The Lord’s Supper: where it comes from, what it means, and how Baptists observe it.

Matthew 26Luke 22

Where Christians differ

Life in the Church

Why Christians gather at all, what a church is for, and what belonging to one involves.

Acts 21 Corinthians 12

A Baptist position, named as one