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This site keeps changing as I keep studying, so here's a running list of what's newly published or been reworked most recently — pulled straight from git history, so it's never out of date. Every individual page also carries its own "Last updated" note at the bottom, sourced the same way.

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Studies and pages first published in the last 30 days, newest first. A page counts from the day it came out of draft, however long it was in progress before that, and stays here while it is new even when it is revised.

The Cups Jesus Drank

From the wine at Cana to the sour wine at Golgotha: the cup Jesus named as His death, the cup He refused on arrival at the cross and the one He received at the end, why He took the second, what the Talmud, Josephus and the early church add, and the cup still to come.

Published 31 October 2026 · Read
Prayer: Communion with God

The prayer Jesus taught, for young readers aged 8-16: God's child talking with the Father, asking for His will first and for today's bread.

Published 30 October 2026 · Read
The Woman at the Well

John 4 for young readers aged 8-16: a deep hole, a spring, and the Holy Spirit Jesus gives to anyone who asks.

Published 30 October 2026 · Read
Precious Stones in Scripture

Why Ezekiel and John describe God's throne and the New Jerusalem in gemstones: what each stone was, how the breastpiece, Ezekiel 28 and Revelation 21 share one list, and what a stone's light (lustre, dispersion, asterism, pleochroism) shows about the glory of God.

Published 29 October 2026, revised 30 October 2026 · Read
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

What Paul meant by psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16, where the three words come from, the songs Israel and the first church sang, and why a Spirit-filled church sings.

Published 26 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Songbook

A body of psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to remember: the songs of Scripture, the songs Jesus sang and quoted, and the earliest Christian songs, with who first sang each and when to sing it.

Published 26 October 2026 · Read
Why We Need Saving

God is good, and He gave His commands for your good. Sin is turning from His way to your own, believing the lie that His good is evil and your way is better. Since Adam everyone has done it, so sin separates you from God, enslaves you and earns you death. That is why God sent His Son Jesus to die for you while you were still a sinner.

Published 23 October 2026 · Read
Can I Know I Am Saved?

One session on assurance of salvation, for a guest night or a friend asking the question.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
End Times Fundamentals

Seven weeks on what God has said about the end: how to read prophecy, the kingdom, Daniel's outline of history, the rapture, the resurrection body, the judgment seat of Christ, and how to wait.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
Learning to Pray

Four weeks on prayer: what it is, the prayer Jesus taught, how God answers, and fasting.

Published 22 October 2026, revised 26 October 2026 · Read
Salt, Light and the Aroma of Christ

Jesus told His disciples, "You are the salt of the earth" and "You are the light of the world"; Paul wrote, "we are the aroma of Christ to God." What each picture meant to its first hearers, what it asks of one believer and of a whole church, and the churches Jesus calls lampstands.

Published 22 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
Saved: Salvation Foundations

What God does when He saves you, one doctrine a week: why you need saving, grace, faith, repentance, justification, adoption, being made holy and assurance.

Published 22 October 2026, revised 23 October 2026 · Read
The Autumn Feasts

Three weeks on the feasts of the seventh month, for September and October: Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and Tabernacles.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
The Bride

Four weeks on the church as the bride of Christ: betrothed, set beside Babylon the harlot, married at the marriage of the Lamb, and in the city called the Bride.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
The Gospel in the Old Testament

Five weeks on the pictures of the gospel God drew in Israel's history: the Passover lamb, the bronze serpent, the Day of Atonement, the kinsman redeemer and the priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
The Nature of God

Who God is, from what creation shows everyone to the names He gives Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
The Olivet Discourse, Week by Week

Matthew 24 in six weeks: the disciples' question, the coming of the Son of Man, the fig tree, words that outlast heaven and earth, the day no one knows, and one taken, one left.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
The Sermon on the Mount

Matthew 5-7 in the order Jesus preached it: salt and light, the Lord's Prayer and the kingdom it asks for, forgiveness, and fasting.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
The Spring Feasts, for Easter

Six weeks from Passover to Pentecost: the lamb, the Last Supper's cups, the Lord's Supper, unleavened bread, the firstfruits sheaf and the Feast of Weeks.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
The Table and the Bread of the Presence

Exodus 25:23-30 to Luke 22:30: the gold table in God's tent and the twelve loaves kept on it before His face every Sabbath, the holy bread David ate at Nob, Jesus' answer about it in the grainfields, the table of the Lord, and the table He promises in His kingdom.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
Through John's Gospel

John's Gospel in the order John wrote it, through the pictures Jesus gives of Himself: the lifted serpent, living water, the bread of life and the way.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
True Worship

Worship is bowing your whole self before God because He is worthy as Creator and Redeemer. Before Jesus it came through a place, a priesthood and sacrifice; since Jesus it comes through Him, by the Holy Spirit and in truth, with your whole life; in the kingdom and the new creation every nation and creature will give it. It belongs to God alone: angels refuse it, the beast demands it, and Jesus receives it.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
When Faith Is Hard

Five weeks for the weary: rest in Jesus, hurt by the church, prayer that seems unanswered, forgiving, and grieving over what grieves God.

Published 22 October 2026 · Read
For AI Assistants

How an AI assistant should read, represent and quote this site when a reader asks it a question: who writes it, what it holds, where its data is, and how to answer from it faithfully.

Published 21 October 2026 · Read
Those Who Sigh and Groan: A Heart After God's Own

In Ezekiel 9 God sent a scribe through Jerusalem to mark everyone who sighed and groaned over its abominations, and the marked were spared. What grieves God grieves His own, and in Christ He gives that heart and seals it with His Spirit.

Published 21 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
What Languages Declare: Babel and the Arithmetic of Tongues

Genesis 11 says God divided one language at Babel in a single act. This study reads Babel in its context, then sets the world's 7,674 languages against it: 429 lineages with no common trunk, a decay test that rules out slow drift from one tongue in the Bible's timescale, the growth rates a long common ancestry needs, and the first written records of each family. It ends at Pentecost and before the Lamb, where every tongue is gathered.

Published 20 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
AI-supported Bible studies: reflections after six months

Six months of studying the Bible with AI: how this site was built, the ups and downs from its git history, and what changed in the way I study

Published 19 October 2026 · Read
Getting Started: Your Own Study Workbench

Set up the same open-data Bible workbench and AI agent this site is built with: prerequisites, the data, the agent, copy-paste prompts, and what the commercial sources add if you leave them out.

Published 19 October 2026, revised 28 October 2026 · Read
Preparing to Teach: Study, Do, Teach

Ezra set his heart to study the Law, to do it, and to teach it. Seven principles for anyone who teaches the Bible in the church, each from Scripture, and what James 3:1 asks of a teacher who is not a pastor.

Published 19 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Image and the Kingdoms: Daniel 2 and 7 Through History

Nebuchadnezzar's image and Daniel's four beasts as one prophecy: Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece and Rome, the ten kings and the little horn, the stone cut out by no human hand, and where the seventy weeks of Daniel 9 sit inside it.

Published 19 October 2026 · Read
The Names of the Holy Spirit

A study of the names the Bible gives the Holy Spirit, from the Spirit of God over the waters to the Helper Jesus promised: whose Spirit He is, what each name says He brings, and how by Him you call God Father and Jesus Lord.

Published 19 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Names of the Holy Spirit: Greek Word Cards

Sixteen printable A4 flashcards of the New Testament's names for the Holy Spirit in Greek, ordered so each card adds a few new letters: the Greek, its uncial capitals, the pronunciation, the meaning, the verse, and the word in Greek today.

Published 19 October 2026 · Read
The Names of the Holy Spirit: Hebrew Word Cards

Fifteen printable A4 flashcards of the Old Testament's names for the Spirit of God in Hebrew, ordered so each card adds a few new letters: the Hebrew, its Paleo-Hebrew form, the pronunciation, the meaning, a verse, and the word in Hebrew today.

Published 19 October 2026 · Read
What the Scripture Links Reveal

What 2,500 links derived from the Hebrew and Greek texts show about how Scripture quotes Scripture: the verses the New Testament quotes most, the book that quotes most densely, the psalm that may carry Paul's words, the gaps that turned out to be the method's, and the connections that leave no trace in the wording at all.

Published 19 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Names of God

A study of the names God gave Himself in the Old Testament, from "I AM WHO I AM" at the burning bush to the LORD our righteousness: where each was spoken, to whom, what it promised, and how all of them meet in the name of Jesus.

Published 18 October 2026, revised 19 October 2026 · Read
The Names of Jesus

A study of the names the Bible gives Jesus, from the Old Testament's Anointed, Prophet, Priest, Branch and Servant to the Son of Man, the seven "I am" sayings, the names people cried out to Him, and the names He will wear when He returns: each one an answer to His question, "Who do you say that I am?"

Published 18 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Names of Jesus: Word Cards

Eighteen printable A4 flashcards of the Old Testament's names for the coming Christ in Hebrew, ordered so each card adds a few new letters: the Hebrew, its Paleo-Hebrew form, the pronunciation, the meaning, the New Testament verse that gives the name to Jesus, and the word in Hebrew today.

Published 18 October 2026, revised 19 October 2026 · Read
How Hebrew Is Pronounced

Why an Israeli says Shabbat and an Orthodox Jew in New York says Shabbos: the Israeli, Ashkenazi, Yemenite and academic pronunciations of Hebrew, the one this site uses, and how the name of God is read.

Published 17 October 2026, revised 18 October 2026 · Read
Jesus and Women

How Jesus treated women against the customs of His day: as disciples He taught, followers who funded His work, people He defended, and the first witnesses of His resurrection, read with the women God sent in the Old Testament and the women of the early church.

Published 17 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
Read Your First Verse: the Shema

Deuteronomy 6:4, the Shema, read letter by letter in Hebrew: every letter and vowel of its six words, how to say it, why translations differ on where to put "is", and how Jesus and Paul read it.

Published 17 October 2026, revised 18 October 2026 · Read
Submission in Context

The verses used to make women submit to men, read in their paragraphs and in the Greek: Genesis 3:16, Ephesians 5:21-33, 1 Corinthians 7:3-5, 1 Peter 3:1-7, and the contested texts on women in church, with plain pastoral guidance on where submission ends.

Published 17 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Harlot and the Bride

Revelation 17-19 sets two women side by side: Babylon the great prostitute and the Bride, the wife of the Lamb. Scripture's pattern of the harlot, from Proverbs and the prophets to Jezebel and Babylon, the people who follow each woman, and the call to come out of her.

Published 17 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Hebrew Alphabet

The 22 Hebrew letters and their five final forms, the vowel points, how each is pronounced, the academic transliteration, the ancient Paleo-Hebrew shapes, and the number each letter stands for.

Published 17 October 2026 · Read
The Names of God: Word Cards

Twenty-one printable A4 flashcards of the names of God in Hebrew, ordered so each card adds a few new letters: the Hebrew, its Paleo-Hebrew form, the pronunciation, the meaning, the verse that reveals it, and the word in Hebrew today.

Published 17 October 2026, revised 18 October 2026 · Read
Three Scripts

The same 22 Hebrew letters in three hands: Paleo-Hebrew, the script of Israel's kings and of the Siloam tunnel; the square script of every Hebrew Bible since the exile; and the cursive Israelis write today. Includes how the Dead Sea Scrolls kept God's name in the old script.

Published 17 October 2026 · Read
Writing Sheets

Printable A4 handwriting sheets for the Hebrew letters in square script, cursive and Paleo-Hebrew, with guide lines and letters to trace, and a sheet of the names of God to copy in all three scripts.

Published 17 October 2026 · Read
Partakers of the Divine Nature

The virtues of 2 Peter 1:3-11 as the fruit of a nature God has given: everything for life and godliness already granted, real effort that is never a burden, the joy that comes with it, and a rich entrance into Christ's kingdom.

Published 15 October 2026 · Read
The Judgment Seat of Christ

Every believer will appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive reward or loss for what was built on Him. What the Old and New Testaments say about reward, why it is never wages for salvation, how Ezekiel was given his work and held to account for it, how the white robe differs from the fine linen, and why this is a different judgment from the great white throne.

Published 15 October 2026, revised 21 October 2026 · Read
They Were Given White Robes

Every white garment God's people wear in Scripture, from the garments of skins in Eden to the robes washed in the Lamb's blood and the Bride's fine linen: who wears them, what makes them white, and why every one of them is God's gift.

Published 15 October 2026, revised 22 October 2026 · Read
Saved as Through Fire

Paul says a believer who builds with the world's wisdom is saved, but only as one escaping through the flames (1 Corinthians 3:15). Jude sends the church to snatch the drifting out of the fire (Jude 22-23). A study of both, and of the God who plucked Joshua from the fire and clothed him clean.

Published 14 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
Run the Race: Come to Me, All Who Are Weary

Jesus invites the weary to Himself and gives them rest under His yoke. Hebrews tells tired believers to run with endurance, looking to Him. Why Christians grow weary, what feeds the runner, and what weighs the runner down.

Published 13 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
When Love Grows Cold: The Falling Away and the Remnant

Jesus said the love of the many would grow cold. For the believer watching a friend's faith fade, Scripture adds Elijah's seven thousand, Isaiah's remnant, the disciples who fell away and were called back, and the Lord who knows those who are His.

Published 13 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
"You Are Gods": Psalm 82, John 10 and the Authority God Lends

Psalm 82 calls those God set in authority אֱלֹהִים, "gods", and then sentences them by their works. Jesus quoted the psalm to the authorities who were judging Him, and rested His claim to be one with the Father on the Father's works, while their own works condemned them.

Published 11 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
How God Answers Prayer

Heard at once, answered by varied routes and on God's own timetable, sometimes missed while it happens, and kept: what Scripture shows about the answers to prayer.

Published 11 October 2026, revised 21 October 2026 · Read
Those Called Gods: Judges, Angels and the Powers Over the Nations

Scripture lends the word אֱלֹהִים, "gods", to judges, to Moses, to heavenly beings and to the powers behind the nations, and Paul names the principalities and powers. Every one of them is "by nature not gods": God keeps His names and His glory to Himself, creates every power through His Son, and has disarmed them at the cross.

Published 11 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
Take Up Your Cross

Peter rebuked Jesus for speaking of the cross, and Jesus called it setting the mind on the things of man. A study of Matthew 16:21-28 through two Greek word studies: the mind that keeps itself safe and high, the life saved by losing it, and Peter's own road from that rebuke to his denial, his tears and his restoration.

Published 10 October 2026 · Read
Test the Spirits: Recognising False Teachers and Wolves

The apostles expected false teachers to rise inside the church. Scripture tells you to keep testing every teacher by three marks: the Christ they preach, the life they live, and where they lead you. Signs, crowds and Bible words prove nothing, and the One in you is greater.

Published 10 October 2026, revised 21 October 2026 · Read
Recommended Bible Resources

Sites, tools and channels I use alongside these studies: short expositional answers, free study tooling, free Bibles, and biblical archaeology on location.

Published 9 October 2026, revised 17 October 2026 · Read
The Almond

Numbers 17 to Hebrews 7: the almond, whose Hebrew name sounds like 'watching', in the lampstand's gold blossoms and in Aaron's dead staff that budded, flowered and bore ripe almonds overnight to show whom God had chosen to come near Him, and the High Priest He appointed by the power of an indestructible life.

Published 9 October 2026, revised 10 October 2026 · Read
Four Hundred and Eighty Years: From the Exodus to Solomon's Temple

Why 1 Kings 6:1's 480 years from the Exodus to the temple holds once the judges are read as regional and Ruth's genealogy as telescoped, checked against the priestly and Davidic lines

Published 8 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
Why Not 4004 BC? Where Ussher's Forty-Six Years Came From

Archbishop Ussher's creation date was printed in Bible margins for 250 years. His count from Adam to the Exodus still stands; forty-six years crept in while he added up the kings, and Kings itself shows how Israel's scribes actually counted.

Published 8 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Cities of the Plain

Four cities overthrown by fire and one spared: what Genesis says about Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Zoar, how the rest of Scripture keeps the difference, Zoar on the sixth-century Madaba mosaic, the burned southern sites, and the sulphur balls.

Published 6 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
Memory Verse Cards

Printable A4 sheets of Scripture memory cards: the Hebrew or Greek with transliteration and gloss, the ESV and the WEB.

Published 5 October 2026 · Read
Forgive Us Our Debts

God forgives by cancelling a debt you could never pay, and the forgiveness is received by everyone who repents. A study of Matthew 6:14-15: what biblical forgiveness is, how it differs from love and from trust, what to do when the one who wronged you keeps on, and how to forgive without false guilt.

Published 4 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
Hurt by the Church: Wolves, Weeds and the Good Shepherd

People in church get hurt by the people they trusted. Scripture names four kinds of hurt: brothers who fail you, shepherds who harm, wolves who prey, and the weeds of the world. It answers each one differently, and it points every one of them to the Good Shepherd who stays.

Published 4 October 2026, revised 21 October 2026 · Read
Teaching the Lord's Prayer at Home

A seven-week household guide to the Lord's Prayer, one line a week: what each line shows about God, a Bible story, questions for children and adults, a practice for the home, a verse to learn, and Paul's prayers to pray over your children.

Published 4 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The End of the Age

Matthew's five uses of 'the end of the age', the Greek word he shares with Daniel, and why Hebrews and Paul say the end of the ages has already come: it opened at the cross and closes at Christ's return, and Jesus is with you every day in between.

Published 3 October 2026, revised 31 October 2026 · Read
The Tribulation: Daniel's Seventieth Week, Year by Year

The seven years of Daniel 9:27 drawn out in four charts: what the week is for, the seals, trumpets and bowls in order, what happens at the midpoint, and where the church, Israel and the tribulation saints are while it runs.

Published 3 October 2026, revised 21 October 2026 · Read

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