Four courses, ONE Book — take them in order, or start where you are.
There is no tuition here, no semester, and no diploma . . . this is a shelf of studies laid out in the order a believer actually needs them: FIRST the foundation, then how to read the Book for yourself, then the New Testament one book at a time, and last the Old Testament shadows that all point forward to Christ.
Work through it as fast or as slowly as you like . . . NOTHING here is locked, and nothing here is graded . . . the aim is the one Paul gave Timothy:
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth NOT to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
— II Timothy 2:15 (KJV)
The first walk-through goes up January 1, 2027.
Courses I and II are on the shelf and open to you today. Course III begins in January — and if the writing runs ahead of schedule, it begins sooner.
Course I — Foundations
Where a new believer starts . . . what happened when you were saved, what the Bible says about salvation, prayer, worship, the church, and Christian living. Plain answers, straight from the text, for someone reading it all for the first time.
Seven chapters . . . the seventh is the bridge out: having watched the Book answer six questions, you are handed the tools to go ask it yourself — which is Course II.
Begin Course I • Available now — seven chapters
Course II — How to Read the Bible
Thirteen lessons in the habits of a reader . . . how to start with the whole before the part, how to let a verse keep its context, how to trace a word, how to tell what a passage says from what we wish it said . . . these are the tools – Course III is where you pick them up and use them.
Begin Course II • Available now — thirteen lessons
Course III — The New Testament, Book by Book
Now the tools go to work on whole books. One New Testament book each month, from the first verse to the last, in groups of verses rather than one verse at a time — because that is how the writers wrote and how the first readers read.
These are called walk-throughs, and the name is deliberate. A walk-through is not a commentary . . . it does not argue a system, defend a position, or tell you what the verse ought to mean . . . it walks beside you through the book and asks the same question at every stop: what does the Bible say here? The answers are the Bible's own.
Twenty-seven books, one a month. A book's name below becomes a link the month its walk-through goes up.
The books are indexed below in the order your Bible binds them, but they are released in the order a reader can bear them: first John, so the Person is settled – then Matthew, Mark and Luke, four portraits for four kinds of reader – then Acts – then the letters, beginning with Ephesians.
Before any of them comes Booklet Zero — The Bridge, which carries the thirteen tools of Course II up from a single verse to a whole book, and explains the order above.
The Gospels and Acts
Matthew • Mark • Luke • John • Acts
Paul's Letters
Romans • I Corinthians • II Corinthians • Galatians • Ephesians • Philippians • Colossians • I Thessalonians • II Thessalonians • I Timothy • II Timothy • Titus • Philemon
Hebrews and the General Letters
Hebrews • James • I Peter • II Peter • I John • II John • III John • Jude
Revelation
Revelation
Jude is finished and on the shelf now — five booklets, verse groups, author's notes and all . . . it is the pattern every other book will follow.
Course IV — Shadows: Christ in the Old Testament
The last course, and the one the first three are preparing you for . . . the tabernacle, the offerings, the feasts, the kinsman redeemer, the passover lamb, the rock in the wilderness — the Old Testament pictures that the New Testament turns around and names.
Begins when Course III is complete.
Questions at the End
Every walk-through ends with a few questions — not a test, and not graded . . . they are the questions a reader ought to be able to answer from the text itself, and answering them out loud is most of the work of learning a book.
If you want to send your answers in, each booklet has a short form at the end. Pastor Chuck reads every one . . . you are welcome to work through the whole school and never send in a single answer – the questions are there to slow you down in the right places.
"...they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."
— Acts 17:11 (KJV)
Questions about anything in the school? Use the Ask a Question page.
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