Essays

Each essay traces the seven threads through a specific passage, narrative comparison, or integrated-design pattern in the canon. Free to read, free to share, written to be tested against the biblical text.

LATEST · OCT 20, 2026The Face They Would Not ReadBefore Stephen said a word in his defense, God made his face shine like Moses coming down from Sinai, and the Sanhedrin condemned him anyway. Then Stephen used one word, resist, that a murdered man does not use of his killers unless their refusal was real. A reading of Acts 7 on the sign they would not read and the grace that is not irresistible.SEP 27, 2026The Other Day on XTen questions a Reformed brother asked me, and what the text said backSEP 22, 2026The Road Not TakenWhat would have been.SEP 21, 2026Knowing Isn't WritingThe glance that doesn't flatten.SEP 2, 2026The God Who AnswersHe does not sort men before they move. He answers what they do with Him.AUG 30, 2026Why Would He Look?2 Chronicles 16:9, the Searching God, and the Whole HeartAUG 26, 2026Jesus Never Told a Calvinist ParableRoughly forty stories. Not one pre-selected character. If I am wrong, one parable proves it. Find it.AUG 9, 2026The Name He Gave a FugitiveI AM, from the Burning Bush to John 8AUG 2, 2026Sheep Beget SheepThe Great Commission's One Command, and Who Gives the IncreaseJUL 26, 2026The One StoryWhy There Are Seven Threads, and Why They Change How You Read EverythingJUL 12, 2026The Rock Nobody Can MakeGranite, Job 38, and the Foundations of the EarthJUN 28, 2026The Word That Needs No ReceiptTetelestai Does Not Mean Paid in Full, and the Truth Is Better Than the MythJUN 7, 2026The Crown That Can Be WithheldThelēma, Ho Thelōn, and Why the Same Greek Root Opens and Closes RevelationMAY 31, 2026The Gift Was CertaintyWhy God Tests a Heart He Already Knows, and What Abraham Carried Down From MoriahMAY 24, 2026Not For Ours OnlyUniversal Atonement and the Scope That Never NarrowsMAY 17, 2026Agapaō: The Word That Doesn't Mean What You Think It MeansA deep dive on the Bible's most quoted wordMAY 10, 2026A Mile of WitnessesWhy the King James Stands on the Surest Textual Ground of Any English BibleAPR 12, 2026The Crimson WormA Sacrifice Hidden in CreationAPR 5, 2026The Pit, the Prison, and the PalaceWhat Joseph Got Right That Edmond Dantès Got Wrong