Curated Bible study guides organized by book and series.https://thegospelplug.com/https://thegospelplug.com/study/whose-god-is-their-appetite/https://thegospelplug.com/study/whose-god-is-their-appetite/Consider a small scene. A man wakes up, walks to the kitchen, and finds that the coffee is wrong. Maybe the beans ran out and what is on the counter is a brand he tolerates rather than the one he loves. Maybe he is traveling, and the hotel's machine is what is on offer. Maybe his wife made it the…Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPhilippiansThe Interior Lifehttps://thegospelplug.com/study/violence-forgiveness-and-the-god-who-refuses-both/https://thegospelplug.com/study/violence-forgiveness-and-the-god-who-refuses-both/Jonah names two sources of violence: Nineveh's brutal paganism and Jonah's moralistic religion. God refuses both. He does not excuse Nineveh, and he does not excuse Jonah's anger. The way forward is forgiveness that has already dealt with hate before it confronts injustice. The ultimate answer is a…Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTJonahJonah: Mercy for the Cityhttps://thegospelplug.com/study/those-who-cling/https://thegospelplug.com/study/those-who-cling/Jonah's prayer from inside the fish shows what spiritual transformation requires. Jonah had real faith, but his faith was fitted to his old world and not yet ready for God's call to Nineveh. Jonah 2:8-9 gives the frame: grace is the key, learning and loving grace is the method, eroded fear and…Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTJonahJonah: Mercy for the Cityhttps://thegospelplug.com/study/refracted-within/https://thegospelplug.com/study/refracted-within/The Father is outside the universe, bigger than everything in it, and yet turned toward the people he made. The Son entered the universe, fully God and fully human, living a life that could be touched and followed and witnessed. He died and rose and ascended.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTRomansRefractedhttps://thegospelplug.com/study/refracted-entered/https://thegospelplug.com/study/refracted-entered/Part one of this series was about the Father, the one who sits outside the universe and made it. The Father is bigger than everything that exists, and yet, unexpectedly, he knows your name and is turned toward you.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTJohnRefractedhttps://thegospelplug.com/study/refracted-outside/https://thegospelplug.com/study/refracted-outside/Imagine one beam of white light passing through a glass prism. The light separates into colors, each one distinct, and yet they share a single source.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTGenesisRefractedhttps://thegospelplug.com/study/free-to-belong/https://thegospelplug.com/study/free-to-belong/Our culture has a clear picture of what freedom looks like: no constraints, no obligations, no one telling you what to do. The freest person, by that definition, is the one who belongs only to himself, who answers to no one and lives entirely on his own terms.Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTMatthewBuilt For Thishttps://thegospelplug.com/study/fellow-heirs/https://thegospelplug.com/study/fellow-heirs/When Paul wants to describe what God has done for those who belong to Christ, he reaches past the family vocabulary Scripture has been using up to this point and selects a word from a different domain entirely. It is not a word about being born again, though the New Testament uses that one in other…Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTRomansFellow Heirs