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Imagine walking into a library — sixty-six books on the shelves. Poetry. History. Law. Letters. Songs. Biographies. Written across roughly 1,500 years, on three continents, in three languages, by dozens of authors
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The Story of the Bible in 10 Days
This study is designed to take you on a flight at 30,000 feet. We will trace the grand narrative arc of redemption—from the garden of Eden to the New Jerusalem.
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Meet God
Fifteen days, fifteen facets of who God actually is — not the God we assume, but the God who has told us plainly who He is.
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What Is the Gospel?
Discover the core message of the Christian faith in plain language — traced through vivid pictures across Scripture — from creation, to fall, to redemption, to final restoration. ## Arc: What Is the Gospel? - **Day 1 — The Good Design.** Grounds the whole study first: the gospel is a defined, historical reality (1 Corinthians 15), not a vague feeling — then traces that reality back to a good God, a good world, and humanity made in His image. Ends by setting up the question the whole study circles: what broke this? Behold passage: Genesis 1:26-27, 31. - **Day 2 — The Fracture.** Humanity's rebellion was cosmic treason, and the immediate aftermath — fig leaves that fail versus the coats of skins God provides — is the Bible's first sketch of the whole gospel, three pages in. Ends by pointing toward the debt this treason leaves behind. Behold passage: Romans 5:12. - **Day 3 — The Great Exchange.** God doesn't overlook the debt; He pays it Himself. The bronze serpent in the wilderness — a cure that had to look like the curse — explains exactly what happens on the cross. Ends on the question a dead substitute can't answer: is the payment enough? Behold passage: 1 Peter 3:18. - **Day 4 — Grace Through Faith.** The resurrection proves the payment cleared. Salvation is received, not earned — the pattern goes back to Abraham, and it's the same grace that turned Zacchaeus, a corrupt tax collector, into a man who gave away half his wealth. Ends by widening the lens from personal rescue to the fate of the whole world. Behold passage: Ephesians 2:8-9. - **Day 5 — The Restoration.** The gospel's ending isn't escape from earth but its renewal — God dwelling with His people in a physical, restored creation forever. Closes with a challenge from Jesus's own parable of the soils: what will you do with what you've heard? Behold passage: Revelation 21:1-4.
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Your First 30 Days
A daily on-ramp for a new believer: reading, prayer, church, and the habits that make faith sustainable — one small step at a time for thirty days.
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How to Pray
A beginner's on-ramp into a real conversation with God — for anyone who has never learned to pray, from the God who hears to the daily rhythm of a life spent talking with Him.
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Big Words Made Simple
Grace. Sin. Covenant. Righteousness. Atonement. Five words that show up everywhere in church and nowhere in normal conversation — defined in plain language, traced through Scripture, and woven into one gospel story.
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How We Got the Bible
Canon, transmission, and translation — why your Bible says what it says, and why you can trust it.
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How to Read the Bible
The practical skills nobody teaches you — where to start, how to find any verse, what context actually means, and how to read for a lifetime, not just a study.
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What Is Happiness?
Every generation runs the same experiment: chase wealth, status, pleasure, or power and see if it satisfies. It never has. A ten-day dig through Ecclesiastes' honest verdict, Thomas Aquinas's philosophical dead-ends, and the New Testament's actual answer — a Person, not a possession — built to leave you longing, not settled.
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Why Trust the Bible?
Manuscripts, history, and honest answers to honest doubts — the evidence behind why the Bible has earned its trust, and what that evidence can and can't do on its own.
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Getting Started with Mark
A first guided 14-day read-through of the shortest, fastest-paced Gospel — follow Jesus from the wilderness to the empty tomb and discover for yourself who He really is.
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