What Scripture Says — Volume 1
Confronting the World with Biblical Truth
Twenty-one chapters on what the Bible actually says — to a culture that has decided what it should say instead.
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What Scripture says still governs.
What Scripture Says is a three-volume Bible and theology series asking what God has said, what the text requires, and what Christian obedience demands. The books address difficult questions without replacing biblical authority with sentiment, institutional habit, or cultural pressure.
Volume 1 is available now on Amazon. Volumes 2 and 3 are forthcoming.
The governing question
What has God actually said?
These books stand or fall by Scripture. They ask what the text says, how its argument holds together, and what follows when Christians submit their conclusions to it. They are written for readers who would rather be corrected by the Word of God than protected from a difficult answer.
Bible & Theology
What Scripture Says
Three volumes bring biblical authority to the world’s challenges, the church’s doctrinal disputes, and the Christian’s own heart and daily life.
What Scripture Says — Volume 2
Submitting the Church to Biblical Authority
Fifteen chapters on the questions Christians dispute — and how the text settles them.
Coming soon Notify me →
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What Scripture Says — Volume 3
Bringing the Heart Under Biblical Authority
Sixteen chapters asking whether the Scriptures we confess will govern the heart we live with.
Coming soon Notify me →
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Questions
Before you go
Are the What Scripture Says books political books?
No. They are governed by Scripture, not by political usefulness. Some chapters address public and cultural questions because Scripture speaks to those questions, but the method throughout is exegesis and doctrinal argument.
What translation does the series use?
Quotations are drawn from the ESV (English Standard Version) throughout the series.
What does each of the three volumes cover?
Volume 1, Confronting the World with Biblical Truth, takes up the world’s open disagreement with Scripture — truth, marriage, sexuality, the sanctity of life, Marxism, and the false gospels of the age. Volume 2, Submitting the Church to Biblical Authority, examines doctrinal disagreements within the church, including salvation, the household, baptism, and church order. Volume 3, Bringing the Heart Under Biblical Authority, asks how Scripture governs the conscience, faith, obedience, suffering, forgiveness, and hope.
What formats will the books be available in?
The volumes have paperback and hardcover ISBNs. Volume 1 can be purchased on Amazon; availability of formats and future editions is shown on each book’s page.
When will the books be released?
Volume 1 is available now on Amazon. Release dates for Volumes 2 and 3 have not yet been announced. Sign up for notification of future releases.
I found an error in one of the books. How do I report it?
Please use the contact page and include the book title, chapter, page number, and edition or printing if you have it. Confirmed corrections are posted on the errata page.
About the author
Lyman Epp
Lyman Epp is a Reformed Baptist layman in Cape Coral, Florida. He writes for Christian readers who want difficult doctrinal and ethical questions brought back under the authority of Scripture.
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Questions, errata, or correspondence
Email is the best way to reach the author. Notes about typographical errors or citation issues in either book are particularly welcome and will be reflected on the errata page.