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When a new ship is launched, it will undergo sea trials before taking on any passengers. But at the time of launch, the ship is essentially finished. It has a hull, an engine, and a propeller. It’s a proper working ship. In contrast, the Grace Commentary looked nothing like a completed ship when it was…… 继续阅读 The Grace Commentary turns Five: An Update

Hi friends, As you may have heard, my new book on The Parables of Jesus goes on sale in a couple of months. In this book, I offer a verse-by-verse commentary on all your favorite parables. As far as I know, it is the only grace-based study Bible covering all of Christ’s parables. You may…… 继续阅读 When will the Parables of Jesus be on the Grace Commentary?

When construction began on the Empire State Building in the 1930s, progress was slow at first. Workers had to dig deep and lay foundations before anything visible could rise. But once the groundwork was complete, momentum built quickly. Crews were adding nearly a floor a day. In no time, the structure shot up like bamboo,…… 继续阅读 250,000 Words (and a New Metaphor)

The grace message is spreading all over the world. More people are talking about grace. Although we are still in our early days, the Grace Commentary is already read in more than 200 countries. But what about cities? Is grace taking root in particular locations? Where do grace folk live? There are no easy ways…… 继续阅读 The Top 100 Cities Reading the Grace Commentary

Some days, you lay bricks. Others, you move boulders. Usually, writing the Grace Commentary feels like building a wall one brick at a time. But not this year. In 2025, writing the commentary has felt like shifting two enormous boulders. Boulder 1, or Romans, dominated the first half of the year. By the time Romans…… 继续阅读 A year in the life of the Grace Commentary (2025)

Hi friends, You probably know that I am working on two projects at the same time; the online Grace Commentary and its printed counterpart The Grace Bible. Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT to compare and contrast The Grace Bible and the Grace Commentary. It came up with this table: This comparison is reasonably accurate…… 继续阅读 Three Ways the Grace Commentary is better than the Grace Bible

Romans is complete. It’s one thing to write a book, as I have just done with Romans; it’s another thing to transfer the book onto the Grace Commentary. Last week, Camilla finished uploading all the new commentary material for the sixteen chapters of Romans. The new content amounts to about 100,000 words. That’s more material…… 继续阅读 100,000 Words Added

Hi friends, The Grace Commentary is like a tall cathedral rising stone by stone. Or maybe it’s a big barn rising plank by plank. Here are three numbers that measure our current state of progress: 1746 That’s how many entries I have written for Romans in the past few months. Romans was always going to…… 继续阅读 3 Numbers

If the New Testament epistles are a row of hills, then Romans is Mt. Everest. It’s the biggest, mountainiest epistle of the lot. It towers over the others. At least, that’s how it feels to me. Romans is the most profound and most quoted letter written. No other letter has had a greater impact on…… 继续阅读 Romans is My Everest