About
This website is designed to help people get better at reading and understanding the Bible. I’ve tried to keep the tools and the writing as neutral as I can, so that anyone can use them—whether you think the Bible is inspired, partly inspired, or just an ancient book worth knowing. You don’t have to share my conclusions to get something useful out of the site. At the same time, I should be honest: I do believe the Scriptures are God’s word, that they describe real events, and that they contain genuine predictions about the future. That conviction sits in the background, but it doesn’t have to be yours for the tools to work.
To me, knowing the Bible is only one part of a much larger life. The real goal, as I see it, is to return a kind of loving thankfulness to the God who made us, and to treat other people the same way. Jesus pointed to the greatest commandments—loving God and loving your neighbor—and those two ideas run through the whole story. The tools here are meant to help with the “knowing” part so that the living and the sharing can be better grounded. They’re not an end in themselves.
Before moving on to the “About Me” section of this page, I want to note that I have gone back and forth about whether or not to include it. The primary argument against including it is that it might come across as boastful. To that point, I want to highlight what the Apostle Paul was inspired to write in 2 Corinthians 11:16 and why he wrote that in the general context of 2 Corinthians chapters 10 and 11. He was reluctant to boast, but there was a legitimate short-term reason for doing so. With that in mind, I have decided to include the “About Me” section of this page for broadly similar reasons – I am trying to highlight the fact that this website is a genuine development of something that I have used myself for years and that I now want to share. What is notable is not my story, but rather that this website is NOT the work of some Church Council who decided to come with a Bible Study website so as to deceive people in any way.
About Me
I grew up in Arizona, in a house where my dad didn’t go to church as an adult, but my mom took my brothers and me to a small Christadelphian meeting. I wasn’t especially interested in any of it when I was young; I learned the usual Sunday-school stories, but they didn’t stick with me or matter much, and I figured that somewhere around age sixteen I would stop going.
That started to change when I was about fourteen. For reasons I won’t go into here, the big questions—why we’re here, what happens when we die—began to feel urgent. I also started to see that the Bible wasn’t just a pile of separate stories; it was one integrated story that actually spoke to those questions. I was baptized at fifteen.
People sometimes assume that because I was raised around Christadelphians and still am one, I never really looked at anything else, but that’s not how it happened. Over the last forty-plus years I’ve spent a lot of time in the Bible text itself and a lot of time looking at what various groups, including the Christadelphians, teach. After all that, I still hold to what Christadelphians call the “first principles”—the basic teachings they believe the Bible actually presents. Being part of a small group doesn’t make me right, but it also doesn’t make me wrong. The earliest Christians were a tiny minority inside another minority. The size of the group isn’t the test. What the Bible says is.
After high school I spent a year doing full-time preaching work in Pennsylvania, then worked a string of ordinary jobs, some of them around airplanes. At the urging of a friend and after passing the entrance exam, at twenty-two I became an air traffic controller. For more than 35 years, I worked in a radar room (technically, an “Air Route Traffic Control Center”) mostly working high-altitude traffic. As a teenager I had learned to fly gliders and then small airplanes, and later I became a flight instructor. Most controllers aren’t pilots, let alone flight instructors, so I began to develop teaching materials for other controllers about how to respond to inflight emergencies. That work has been presented nationally. Controlling airplanes, teaching other controllers, giving flight instruction, and building an entire curriculum about emergencies all taught me valuable lessons about how people actually learn and remember. Those lessons have shaped how I study the Bible and how I’ve tried to build the tools on this site.
I’ve been a serious Bible reader since just before I was baptized. By early 2013 I started experimenting with a different way of doing my daily Bible reading. It worked well enough for me that, in 2025, I decided to turn the tools I’d made for myself into something other people could use. That’s what this website is. You’ll find more of the story on the About the Project page.
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