Who decided which books? Did Constantine pick them? What about the lost gospels, the four hundred thousand variants, the books Luther removed, the church that gave you the Bible? Seventeen questions, each answered in a few sentences, with the long answers linked.

Topics: Scripture, Authority.

Reformlet, September 18, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/seventeen-questions-about-the-bible-in-your-hand/

Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

Part 1 answered why these books. Part 2 answers why this copy: what God promised about keeping His Word, what the copies show, why a father's Bible has brackets in it, in what sense a translation is the Word of God, and what it means that the Word is complete.

Topics: Scripture, Authority.

Scripture: Psalm 78; Isaiah 40; 2 Timothy 3; Hebrews 1; Matthew 5.

War Journal, September 18, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/the-word-kept-and-carried/

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Scripture lays three distinct obligations on a man in a broken relationship, and only one of them waits on the other man's repentance. Collapsing them has given hard men a true doctrine to hide behind.

Topics: Forgiveness, Repentance, Fellowship, Discipline, The Church.

Scripture: Matthew 5; Matthew 6; Matthew 18; 1 John 3.

War Journal, September 12, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/the-breach-you-are-not-permitted/

Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

Critics say the quiet woman is a man's invention. Scripture says she is God's delight. What the silence in the assembly is, what it is not, whose duty it creates, and why it makes a woman fearless.

Topics: Created Order, The Church, Worship, Authority.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14; 1 Peter 3; 1 Timothy 2.

War Journal, September 7, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/the-quiet-woman/

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A father is asked why these books. The answer runs from the book beside the ark to the letters read in the first churches, and it ends where Psalm 78 puts it: in the faithfulness of the God who gave the testimony and commanded fathers to teach it.

Topics: Scripture, Authority.

Scripture: Psalm 78; Deuteronomy 31; Luke 24; Romans 3; 2 Peter 3; 1 Timothy 3; 2 Thessalonians 2.

War Journal, September 6, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/the-word-given/

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Feminism's deepest claim is sovereignty over the self. Scripture answers that no Christian belongs to himself, and neither fathers, daughters, nor churches are free to call disorder independence.

Topics: Created Order, Parenting, Authority, Discipline, The Church, Repentance.

Scripture: Genesis 2; Numbers 30; 1 Corinthians 7; 1 Corinthians 6; Ephesians 5.

War Journal, September 4, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/you-are-not-your-own/

Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

I taught the head covering as a gathered-church regulation. Paul’s gathering language does not begin until verse 17. Here is the correction, what it changes, and what it does not.

Topics: Created Order, Worship, The Church, Correction.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11.

War Journal, August 27, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/where-the-gathering-actually-begins/

A confession first, then a declaration. Feminism is rebellion against the order of God, and the fight against it begins with the ground I failed to hold.

Topics: Created Order, Confession, Parenting, Marriage, Authority.

War Journal, August 26, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/feminism-got-my-firstborn/

Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

God's sovereignty includes the pace of sanctification. A confession of impatience answered by Ezekiel 36, Habakkuk 2, and 2 Peter 3.

Topics: Sovereignty of God, Patience, Sanctification, Providence, Confession.

War Journal, May 9, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/the-pace-belongs-to-god/

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The church is already inside the machine. Here is what I built to help it think.

Topics: The Church, Shepherding, Discernment.

War Journal, March 29, 2026. Read the essay: https://kenduffy.net/i-built-something-new-heres-why/