Marked scriptures
Reference chains
The old missionary habit of writing the next reference in the margin of the last one, made walkable. A chain is not a list — it is an argument built out of verses in a deliberate order, and every step says why it follows the one before it.
Godhead
The Holy Ghost: person, gift, and the ways He speaks
8 passages
A member of the Godhead, not an influence. What He is, what the gift confers, and the specific manners of communication scripture describes.
Christ before Bethlehem
8 passages
Jehovah of the Old Testament is the premortal Christ. Eight passages that establish the identification and show what He was doing.
Light: the Light of Christ, the Spirit, and the light that fills immensity
7 passages
Scripture's most persistent metaphor turns out not to be entirely a metaphor. Seven passages, ending in the strangest and most beautiful of them.
Plan of Salvation
The plan of salvation, end to end
9 passages
Where we were, why we came, what went wrong, who fixed it, and where it goes. Nine verses that carry the whole architecture, in the order the architecture is built.
Agency and the conditions that make it real
7 passages
Agency requires a real choice, real alternatives, real knowledge, and real consequences. Scripture supplies all four, and says what happens when one is removed.
Before we were here
7 passages
Premortal existence is not an inference in Latter-day Saint scripture; it is stated. Seven passages, from the faintest biblical hint to the plainest revelation.
The tree of life, from Eden to Bountiful
7 passages
One image, tracked across every volume of scripture. It appears at the beginning, in a dream, in an interpretation, and at the end.
Creation, and what 'create' means
7 passages
The Hebrew, the Greek, and the Restoration on whether God made the world from nothing — and why the answer changes what a person is.
The body as a gift
7 passages
Latter-day Saint theology treats embodiment as an achievement rather than an embarrassment. Seven passages that say why.
Atonement
What the Atonement actually accomplishes
8 passages
Not a mood or a metaphor. Eight passages that name specific things the Atonement does, and the mechanism by which it does them.
Repentance as a turning
8 passages
The Hebrew is 'turn' and the Greek is 'change your mind.' Neither means grovel. Eight passages on what repentance is, what it costs, and what it is worth.
Grace and works, without the false choice
9 passages
The argument the New Testament never settles and did not mean to. Nine passages read in an order that lets both halves stand.
The resurrection, evidence and doctrine
8 passages
What the witnesses said they saw, what kind of body it is, and who receives it. The most physically specific doctrine in Christianity.
Appearances of the risen Lord
8 passages
Every recorded post-resurrection appearance, in rough chronological order, with what each one adds that the others do not.
Covenants and Ordinances
The covenant path
8 passages
Baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, the sacrament, the temple, the sealing — the ordinances in the order the Church administers them, with the covenant each carries.
Priesthood: authority, order, and its limits
8 passages
Where authority comes from, what the two orders are for, how it is conferred, and the conditions under which it stops working.
Restoration
How revelation comes
7 passages
Personal, prophetic, canonical — with the scriptural pattern for each, and the safeguards on all three.
The Restoration, step by documented step
8 passages
Apostasy, promised restitution, the grove, the plates, the priesthood, the Church, the temple. What happened, in order, with dates.
Scripture
The word of God and what it does
7 passages
Scripture on scripture: what it is for, what it accomplishes, and the warnings attached to reading it badly.
Messianic prophecy, and how to weigh it
9 passages
Nine passages the New Testament applies to Christ, read honestly — including where the original context complicates the reading.
Discipleship
Faith: what it is, and what it is not
7 passages
Faith in scripture is a principle of action, not a feeling of certainty. Seven verses that define it, test it, and describe how it grows.
Adversity, and what it is for
8 passages
Scripture does not explain suffering away. It says four specific things about it, and refuses to say more.
What a disciple actually does
8 passages
Not what a disciple feels. Eight passages in which the Lord or His prophets name specific, checkable behaviours.
The poor, and what the covenant requires
8 passages
One of the most consistent and least comfortable themes in scripture, stated in every volume, usually as a commandment.