Studies

Somewhere along the way, Bible study got a reputation for being dull. Fill-in-the-blank workbooks. Three points and a poem. The right answer you already knew before you opened the page.

This is not that.

Studies is where I actually dig into Scripture — slowly, closely, and a little unorthodox. I like to come at a passage sideways. To ask the questions we're quietly told not to ask out loud. To sit in the weird bits instead of rushing past them, and to trust that the text can handle our honesty. Pastoral, always. Reverent, mostly. But also — and I mean this — fun. Because the Bible is stranger, wilder, and more alive than we usually let it be, and reading it should feel less like homework and more like discovery.

I'm not here to hand you my conclusions. I'm here to explore with you: to turn a passage over in the light, notice what we've been trained to skim past, and see what's really there once we stop assuming we already know it.

The series

Formed — starting now. A three-month series for men, walking through what it means to be shaped and re-shaped: who we're becoming, what's doing the forming, and how we take an honest look at the person we're turning into. Built for men who want more than platitudes and are willing to be changed.

Seeds and Fruit — in the can, ready to go up. A study on what grows in us and why — the slow work of roots, seasons, and patience, and the strange economy of the Kingdom where the smallest things carry the whole harvest.

More studies will follow as they grow. Some will run for a season; some will be a single deep dive. All of them come from the same place: a conviction that Scripture rewards the person who leans in.

How to use these

Read them on your own, or gather a few people and work through them together — most of the series are built to hold up in a group as well as solo. Take your time. Argue with me in the margins. The point was never to finish the study; it's to be formed by it.