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Volume One · The Theological Framework

Part One · Creation

1. Why Are You Precious and Valuable?
2. Is Belief in God Reasonable? — for those who want to believe but cannot get past an intellectual barrier
3. Why You Need Not Fear Death — how should we face death?
4. Where Is My Loved One Now? — what Scripture says about the world beyond death
5. Is It Reasonable to Believe God Exists? (Condensed Version)
6. What Is God Like? His Glorious Image
7. If God Created the Universe, Who Created God?
8. Did the iPhone 17 "Evolve" from the iPhone 16? — rethinking evolution and creation
9. Do Demons Really Exist? What Is Their Relationship to God?
10. The God of the Jews, or the God of All Humanity?
11. How Should We Read Genesis 1? — how the “six days of creation” and modern science can be considered together
12. Is the Bible Revealed by God?
13. The Chinese People and God: From Our Common Origin to the Cross
14. God's Plan of Salvation
15. Other Common Questions about God

Part Two · Sin and the Gospel

Chapter One · The Truth About Sin

1. Sin: The Destroyer of Good Order: how Genesis shows sin overturning the order God established
2. When We Expelled Justice from the World: the cycle of disordered human life in families, society and nations
3. We Have Been Turned against Each Other!: the rupture in Eden began with trust, the foundation of every covenant
4. Leaving God Creates a Bottomless Pit within Us: the fundamental loss of security, worth and belonging
5. The Word "Sin" Is More Complex Than You Think: three Hebrew words for sin: chatta’t, missing the mark; ’avon, distortion; pesha, rebellion
6. Sin's Hiddenness: Why Does It So Easily Disappear from View?
7. Sin's Enslaving Power: More Than Behaviour(John 8:34; Romans 6:16)
8. Sin's Contagion: The Continuing Legacy of Adam's Family(Genesis 5:3 and David’s family)
9. Sin's Corporate Dimension: Structural and Cultural Sin(such as consumerism and different forms of discrimination)
10. Why Did God Give the Law?

Chapter Two · The Gospel

1. The Gospel Is God's Power
2. The Gospel Saves Everyone Who Believes
3. The Gospel Is the Good News about Jesus Christ
4. Jesus: The Messiah Promised in the Old Testament
5. Jesus: Did He Really Exist in History?
6. Jesus: Is the Virgin Birth Credible?
7. Jesus: Three and a Half Years That Changed the World
8. Jesus: Crucified for Our Sins
9. Jesus: Declared the Son of God with Power through His Resurrection
10. Jesus: Is the Resurrection Credible?
11. Jesus: What Does His Resurrection Mean for Us?
12. Jesus: Giving Us the Holy Spirit and Remaining with Us
13. Jesus: The King Who Will Return to Judge the Whole Earth

Chapter Three · The Gospel’s Healing

1. The Gospel Rebuilds Our Trust in God
2. Faith: The Wire Connecting Us to God's Power
3. Believing and Being Baptised
4. The Gospel and New Birth
5. How Can I Know I Have Been Born Again?
6. Is 'Once Saved, Always Saved' Right?
7. Repentance Is More Than Correcting Mistakes(שׁוּב + metanoia)
8. Understanding the New Self and the Old Self
9. The Gospel Removes Our Shame: no longer fugitives: God clothes us in Christ’s righteousness
10. Christ Will Redeem Every Original Good for Us
11. How the Gospel Rebuilds Our Security
12. How the Gospel Rebuilds Our Worth
13. How the Gospel Rebuilds Our Belonging
14. Security, Worth, and Belonging — How the Gospel Meets Our Three Deepest Needs
15. When Work Becomes Everything — The Workplace Traps of Security, Worth, and Belonging
16. When Marriage Can't Carry the Weight of Your Soul — Security, Worth, and Belonging in the Family
17. Discontentment, Greed, and Idols — When the Emptiness of the Soul Drives You to Keep Taking
18. From Knowing to Living It Out — Seven Practices for Rebuilding Security, Worth, and Belonging in Christ

Chapter Four · The Believer’s Daily Response

1. Living a Life Led by the Holy Spirit
2. Rebuilding Order in Your Life through God's Word
3. A Guide to Contemplative Prayer — from a one-way monologue to walking with God
4. How to Pray
5. How to Keep Growing
6. Why Do We Still Sin When Christ Has Already Borne Our Sin? — an overview of the three Hebrew words for sin
7. Why Do I Still Sin After Believing? (Introductory Edition)
8. Why Confess and Make Restitution to Others When the Father Has Forgiven Us?
9. Why Does Jesus Require Forgiveness? What Is True Forgiveness?
10. Must I Forgive Someone Who Will Not Admit Hurting Me?
11. How to Love Someone Who Is Hard to Love
12. Honouring God with Our Words
13. Becoming a Good and Faithful Steward
14. How to Bear Witness
15. How to Share the Gospel
16. Sharing the Gospel with Family — those closest to us are often the hardest to speak to
17. Discerning an Opportunity from a Temptation
18. Holding to Faith in Suffering
19. Beware of Treating Faith like Aladdin's Lamp

Part Three · The Church and the Last Things

1. Watching and Ready: How Christians Today Should Prepare for Christ's Return
2. Believers Who Have Died and Believers Still Living When the Lord Returns
3. Different Views of the Last Things
4. The Church: God's Household
5. The Church: Christ's Body
6. The Church's Mission
7. False Christs, False Prophets and False Teachers

Volume Two · Practical Application

Seekers and New Believers

For friends beginning to explore faith, and new believers without someone nearby whom they can ask.

• How Do You Become a Christian? — starting from zero: the core of faith, what believing involves, a prayer of commitment, and what comes next
• My Family Will Not Let Me Believe: Seeking God When Relatives Oppose You — whether exploring privately is cowardly, what must be held firm, and what to do without a church
• Qingming, Funerals and That Stick of Incense: What Christians Can and Cannot Do — a practical criterion and a specific checklist
• Do Christians Have a List of Taboos? — music, television, short videos, eating blood and direct selling: four questions for discernment
• Is 'Once Saved, Always Saved' Right? — what the two sides disagree about, and what they do not

Mental Health

• Doing Our Part and Depending on Grace: Wisdom for Overcoming Anxiety
• Anxiety: When Anxiety Knocks — how Christians can understand and face anxiety disorders
• Depression: Through the Valley — understanding depression and becoming a true companion
• Suicide: Breaking the Silence — what we need to know about suicide
• Irritability: Beneath the Anger — when irritability becomes a cycle you cannot escape
• The Sanctification of Emotions — how should Christians understand their emotions?
• Shame: Fig Leaves — uncovering the veil of shame
• Sexual Temptation and Victory
• Healing from Trauma
• Addiction: Pain Relief Used Wrongly

Church Life

• What Does It Mean to Commit to a Church?
• Why Should Christians Commit to a Church?
• A Vision for Healthy Relationships in Christ's Body
• Handling Conflict between Believers Maturely
• Do Not Gossip behind People's Backs
• Receiving and Expressing Different Views Respectfully
• When Loving Fellow Believers Is Hard
• Why Join a Small Group?
• Building a Vibrant Small Group
• Living Honestly in the Gospel: Do Not Become a Performer
• Dealing with Jealousy and Envy
• Healthy Boundaries among Believers
• Accepting and Supporting Fellow Believers in Weakness
• God's Glory Reflected in Every Person
• Walking alongside New Believers as They Grow
• Why Tithe?
• Preparing for Small Group Multiplication
• How to Face the End of Life
• How Do You Care for a Loved One at the End of Life?

Building Families

• How to Date: Guidance for Christians
• Marriage: God's Beautiful Design
• Are We Ready to Marry?
• Two Sinners Living Together
• Six Practical Principles for Marriage
• Biblical Principles for Parenting
• Learning to Let Go: Developing Children's Independence
• Passing Faith between Generations
• Reconciliation with Your Family of Origin
• Strangling Motivation: Why Pushing Harder Makes Others Want to Escape
• From “Should” to “Willing”: Legalism Hidden in Close Relationships
• From Trying to Achieve to Learning to Grow
• You Cannot Change Him, but Someone Can
• Refined Gold or Cold Ashes: Leaving Bitterness and Resentment in Marriage
• Whoever Changes First Is Blessed First
• Following Christ through Marriage's Suffering, rather than Living as a Victim

Society and Work

• Work Is Service
• How Can I Overcome Temptation at Work?
• How Can I Be an Employee Who Pleases God?
• How Can Team Leaders Display God's Glory?
• How Can I Bear Witness and Share the Gospel at Work?
• What Should I Do While Unemployed and Waiting?

Life Renewal

• Study Guide: Rebuilding Self-Understanding in Christ — rebuilding security, worth and belonging through the gospel
• Study Guide: Enjoying a Life of Prayer — from religious duty to intimate conversation between children and their heavenly Father
• Study Guide: Renewing Your Emotional Map — seeing the heart through emotions and bringing feelings before our heavenly Father
• Study Guide: Hope in Suffering — a biblical understanding of suffering, from its roots to the response of the cross
• Study Guide: Building a Family That Glorifies God — building Christ-centred marriage, parenting and family relationships from the gospel
• Study Guide: Communication and Intimacy That Glorify God — from the power of words to reconciliation in conflict, living Christ’s love in every relationship
• Study Guide: Stewarding Money — learning contentment, diligence, generous giving and eternal investment on the foundation that everything belongs to the Lord
• Study Guide: A View of Work That Pleases Our Heavenly Father — from creation to the new heaven and earth, rejecting the sacred–secular divide and living faith at work
• Study Guide: Christian Ethics — living faith in human dignity, marriage and gender, work and economics, digital technology and social justice

Ministry Equipping

• AI for Church Ministry — a practical guide for pastors and preachers
• Study Guide: Leading Worship — biblical foundations and practical skills for worship ministry
• Study Guide: Care and Counselling — becoming members who bear one another’s burdens
• Study Guide: Sharing the Gospel — from preparing soil and sowing seed to multiplying disciples
• Study Guide: Children’s Sunday School Teachers — caring for the little lambs with the heart of Christ
• Study Guide: Youth Mentors — accompanying exploration and putting down roots in truth
• Study Guide: Leading a Small Group Bible Study — being built together in God’s word
• Practical Guide: Preparing and Leading a Small Group Bible Study — a practical checklist from preparing Scripture to leading discussion
• Study Guide: Small Group Leaders — helpers in shepherding the flock
• Study Guide: Deacons and Elders — governance and service in God’s household
• Study Guide: Global Mission — from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth
• Study Guide: A Brief History of the Church — two thousand years of God’s faithful care
• Study Guide: Discerning Heresy — standing firm in the truth

Worldviews

• One Tree, Three Main Branches — a concise guide to Judaism and the three major Christian traditions
• From Karma to Grace — what Christians need to know about Buddhism and folk religion
• An Invitation to the Uncertain — what Christians need to know about agnosticism
• Know Your Neighbour — what Christians need to know about Islam
• Hinduism and the New Age Movement
• Atheism and Scientism
• Postmodernism and Relativism

Volume Three · In-Depth Studies

Biblical History, Background and Culture

• An Introduction to Bible Geography — the promised land, smaller than half of Hainan Island
• The Nations of the Ancient Near East in Old Testament Times — Israel’s neighbours, rivals and surrounding empires
• Trade Routes of the Biblical World — caravans, ports and the highways of the gospel
• The Tabernacle and the Temple — the story of God dwelling among people
• The Old Testament Sacrificial System — why does God require the shedding of blood?
• An Overview of Jewish Festivals — the gospel God wrote on the calendar
• The Four Hundred Silent Years — what happened between Malachi and Matthew?
• Herod Was Not Just One Person — making sense of the Herodian family in the New Testament
• The Roman Empire and the New Testament — the empire that crucified Jesus, heard Paul’s appeal and carried the gospel across the Mediterranean
• Pharisees, Sadducees, and Zealots — Jewish Factions in the Time of Jesus
• Social Hierarchy in Biblical Times — who was on top, and who was at the bottom?
• Daily Life in Jesus’s Time — homes, food, clothing and work
• Marriage and Funeral Customs in Biblical Times — life’s milestones, from betrothal to burial
• Money, Weights and Measures in the Bible — how much did a talent weigh?
• How the Bible Came to Us — from papyrus to your phone
• Archaeology and the Bible

Biblical Theology

• The Theology of “Eyes” — from God seeing that it was good to seeing face to face
• The Theology of Suffering
• The Theology of Redemption
• Salvation History in the Old Testament — preparing the way for Christ
• The Theology of Glory
• The Theology of Unity

Interpretation Methods

• Study Guide: Introduction to Hermeneutics — hermeneutical foundations, presuppositions, Scripture interpreting Scripture, progressive revelation and common errors
• Study Guide: Multiple Meanings of a Word — methods of word study, core theological terms, and meanings in the Old Testament, Gospels and Epistles
• Study Guide: Sentence Grammar Analysis — subject–verb–object structure, tense and voice, modifying elements, connectives, and logical relations such as cause, contrast, purpose, condition and concession
• Study Guide: Context and Flow — concentric circles of context, repeated key words, book structure and application across cultural differences
• Study Guide: Rhetorical Devices — simile and metaphor, implied metaphor and parables, metonymy and symbolism, personification and analogy, hyperbole and contrast, wordplay, rhetorical questions and irony
• Study Guide: Literary Genres — narrative structure and technique, poetic parallelism and rhetoric, prophetic and Gospel genres, letter forms and apocalyptic symbolism
• Study Guide: Historical and Cultural Background — geography and spiritual imagery, customs and covenants, social and economic illustrations, prophetic settings before, during and after exile, politics, religion and cross-cultural mission
• Study Guide: New Testament Use of the Old Testament — quotation methods and terminology, the Law’s citation and fulfilment, direct prophecy and typology, the suffering servant and New Testament interpretation, types of quotation and salvation history
• How the New Testament Quotes and Interprets the Old Testament
• Study Guide: Christ-Centred Interpretation — progressive revelation and Old Testament types, creation, fall and redemption, gospel fulfilment and final hope
• Study Guide: Contextual Application — changing forms and enduring principles, worship and church governance, social ethics and cultural conflict

Pastoral Reflections

• How Should Chinese-Speaking Churches Support Full-Time Workers?
• How Should Chinese-Speaking Churches Support Full-Time Workers? (Part Two) — returning to biblical principles and practice
• Seed–Soil Church: Exploring a Biblical Church Model (1)
• Seed–Soil Church: Exploring a Biblical Church Model (2)
• Seed–Soil Church: Exploring a Biblical Church Model (3)
• Seed–Soil Church: Exploring a Biblical Church Model (4)
• How a Biblical Church Develops Leaders
• Modern Corinth (1): “I Belong to Paul” — when we lose sight of a leader’s role
• After Coming to Faith, Who Do You Really Trust?
• Modern Corinth (2): Division and Unity
• Modern Corinth (3): The Use of Gifts
• A Pastor's Care for Their Own Soul
• Home or Church: Which Comes First? The Minister's Family

A Twenty-First-Century Global Ministry Toolkit

• Children’s Sunday School: Little Servants Ministry
• An Online Alpha Course
• University Student Outreach
• Men’s Fellowship

Discerning Common Heresies

• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Mormonism
• The Unification Church
• Shincheonji
• Good News Mission (Ock Soo Park)
• The Church of Almighty God (Eastern Lightning)
• David Jang and the Young Disciples / Olivet Network