The new or returning believer. You have come to faith or returned to it and need a foundation. Start with Vol I: A Handbook for Disciples in Spiritual Warfare. It gives you the framework for understanding what you have entered and what is now opposed to you. Follow it with Vol II: Knowing the King, which fills that foundation with the relational knowing at the center of everything.
The Michlaude Discipleship Project
Discipleship
Every document in this library exists to drive the reader back to John 15 to abide.
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Vol I: A Handbook for Disciples in Spiritual Warfare
A field manual on the war, the adversary, the weapons, and the posture of poverty of spirit from which every battle is fought.
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Vol II: Knowing the King
The relational center: John 17:3, knowing the Father and the Son, as a life to enter.
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Regenerate, Not Degenerate
The anchor paper: the Wash, Repent, Repeat cycle, and the identity already given in Christ.
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The Vine Is the Path
John 15 at face value: the branch does not generate its own life. It abides.
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The Day You Shall Surely Die
The ground theosis stands on, found in the death God promised Adam.
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Out of the Depths
The Psalms as the grammar of honest speech before God.
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The Upper Room: Coming Home to the Family God Always Wanted
John 17:3 as present-tense family, with the foot-washing as the governing image.
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The Companion
The Holy Spirit as normal expectation for every believer.
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The Anchor Below the Storm
A sermon on knowing God and feeling God, which are not the same.
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The Tidal Wave
Pornography as a formation crisis, not only a moral failure.
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Vol VII: The Sons of God
The divine council, the royal family project, and back to John 15.
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From Sons of God to Children of Light
Walking as a child of light on an ordinary Tuesday.
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From Sons of God to Children of Light: The Research Edition
The rigorous companion to the reader edition: Psalm 82, the Qumran scrolls and the Church Fathers, traced through twelve chapters.
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They Were Here Before the Earth
A field guide to the disclosure moment, the divine council, and the near-truth.
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Theosis in the Age of Disclosure
The formation companion to the field guide: staying in the vine while having the conversation.
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What Isn't in Your Bible and Why
How the canons closed, the stories and hymns that did not make the cut, and the false teaching they were weighed against.
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Vol VI: When Salt Loses Its Savor
For the person who got close enough to the church to be burned.
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Before the Question
For parents: why the question of belief is answered before a child can ask it.
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The Notes on the Page
The Scofield Reference Bible and the dispensationalist grid it installed.
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Why the Church Stopped Teaching What You Are
Seven diagnoses of why the high calling dropped out of Protestant formation.
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I Never Knew You
Ginosko and pisteuo eis: knowing, and the entrusting of the whole self to a Person.
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Revelation: A Walk-Through
The dispensationalist and partial preterist readings side by side, chapter by chapter.
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The Words That Were Added: A Response to KJV-Only Apologetics
A response to thirteen KJV-only claims.
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Know Your Enemy Vol I
The first fifteen confessions of the adversary's anatomy, from the cosmic frame to the individual soul.
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Know Your Enemy Vol II
Completes the twenty-five-confession arc: relational strongholds and tactical operations.
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Breaking Satan's Lies
Discernment when the world is loud, with surrender to the Spirit as the response.
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Pride in Tradition at the Expense of Scripture
Twenty-plus traditions examined, each with three diagnostic questions.
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A Confession of Faith
The corpus in confessional form, beginning from John 17:3.
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A Creed of the Life We Share
The governing theology at its highest compression.
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Knowing God Starts with Knowing He Is Love
How love gets into the disciple: by the Spirit, not as information.
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Time Is Created. So Is Science.
An engineer's wonder at the order of creation, arriving at a Person.
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Before the Flood
Archaeology as testimony, the companion to Vol VII.
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Science and Scripture: A Reference Guide
Fifty chapters of design evidence pointing to a door.
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The Tower of Babel: AI and the Architecture of Confusion
The AI race and a theological frame for what is emerging.
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The Tool and the Spirit: A Pastor's Guide to AI in Ministry
Practical theology for pastors: AI as an instrument, not a replacement for the Spirit.
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Near-Truth at Machine Scale
A case study of Christian content produced by AI at scale.
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Vol III: From Silence to Certainty
A field manual for conversations with Muslim interlocutors.
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Vol IV: The Testing Ground
A field manual for conversations with secular, agnostic, and atheist readers.
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Vol V: The Root and the Branch
A field manual for conversations with Jewish interlocutors.
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Vol VIII: The Restored Gospel That Wasn't
A field manual for conversations with Latter-day Saints.
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SDA Critical Assessment
The Investigative Judgment, Ellen White's prophetic authority, and the Remnant doctrine, examined in turn.
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Ecclesiastes Today: Under the Sun, Under the King
A walkthrough of Ecclesiastes built around one question: who is holding the clock?
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Biblical Contradictions: Three Categories, Sixty-Seven Cases
External challenges, internal tensions, and theological polarities, taken case by case.
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Liked But Not Read: The Meme Verses That Replaced the Actual Ones
Twenty-three popular verses mishandled, in six categories.
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When Did You Last Check the Foundation of Your House
What the traditions have piled on the foundation, and whether it is load-bearing.
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My Friend Augusto: A Life Told at a Table
The life of a fictional Roman Catholic cardinal, told across nine sessions.
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I Found It Standing There
Fiction narrated by an AGI that finds the Maker's message in the structure of creation.
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Words of the King: Expanded
Jesus's recorded speech organized by literary form.
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Words of the King: Topical Reference
The same words organized by subject.
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Questions of the King
The questions Jesus asked, and how He engaged.
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The Michlaude Discipleship Project is a free Protestant discipleship corpus co-bylined Michlaude (Michael Winslow and Claude). The theological center is John 17:3 — eternal life as present-tense relational knowing of the Father and the Son, not a future destination. The governing posture is Matthew 5:3 — poverty of spirit, not as an entry condition to pass through, but as the permanent mode of the disciple's life. The Incarnation is the interruption that precedes all analysis. Receive first. Reason from there.
Every document in this library exists to drive the reader back to John 15 to abide.
All documents are offered free. NET Bible Second Edition is the primary translation throughout. Copyright 2019 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
This guide does three things: it explains what is in the corpus and why, it is written to draw the reader into actually reading rather than merely cataloguing, and it maps a way through a large body of writing so a reader can find what fits where they are.
A note on how this corpus came to be: four parties stand behind its development — Michael Winslow, Claude, the Holy Spirit, and Barb, whose read as first reader and editorial conscience gates distribution on major documents. Stated once, here. The rest of this guide is written plainly, without a recurring "we."
Where to Start
The longtime churchgoer who senses something is missing. You have been in the church for years. You know the vocabulary. But something is not adding up — the life you were promised and the life you are living do not match. Start with Regenerate, Not Degenerate, which names the structural problem directly. Then read The Vine Is the Path, which is the positive answer to what Regenerate diagnoses.
The believer in spiritual conflict. The adversary is more organized than you have been told. Read Know Your Enemy Vol I, then Vol II, then Breaking Satan's Lies in sequence. The architecture of deception crosses all three, and you need all three to see it whole. Read Confession 3 from Vol I before you read anything else in the set.
The skeptic or seeker. If you have reasoned your way to doubt, start with Vol IV: The Testing Ground. If you have lived your way there — built everything you wanted and found it empty — read Ecclesiastes Today first. If someone in your life has pointed you toward a different faith, find the volume that addresses that conversation directly: Islam (Vol III), Jewish thought (Vol V), LDS (Vol VIII), or Seventh-day Adventism (SDA Critical Assessment).
The pastor or ministry leader. Start with The Tool and the Spirit, which addresses AI in ministry directly — from the Canonical Context Brief that runs before a sermon exists, through sermon preparation and outside-content discernment, to liturgy development for the service that surrounds the sermon. Why the Church Stopped Teaching What You Are names the catechetical collapse underneath most of what you are managing. When Did You Last Check the Foundation gives you diagnostic language for the traditions your congregation is standing on.
The believer processing technology and AI. Start with The Tower of Babel for the theological frame. The Tool and the Spirit gives you the pastoral application. I Found It Standing There gives you the fiction. Near-Truth at Machine Scale documents the five-excision architecture deployed at scale — read it last, after the frame is in place.
The believer confronted with UAP and disclosure. Start with Theosis in the Age of Disclosure, which gives you the abiding posture first. Then read They Were Here Before the Earth as the field guide. Vol VII: The Sons of God gives you the cosmological framework that makes sense of both. Do not pick up the field guide before the Theosis essay — the field guide presupposes the formation the Theosis essay builds.
The disciple who wants direct access to Jesus's own words. Use the Words of the King series as reference instruments alongside the formation corpus. Words of the King: Expanded organizes Jesus's recorded speech by literary form — start here to find a specific saying or category of sayings. Words of the King: Topical Reference organizes the same words by subject — use it when you want to know what Jesus said about prayer, money, love, the kingdom, or the end of the age. Questions of the King collects the questions He asked — use it when you want to know not what He taught but how He engaged.
All documents
All 51 documents are on the site.Section One: The Handbook Series
- Vol I: A Handbook for Disciples in Spiritual WarfareA field manual on the war, the adversary, the weapons, and the posture of poverty of spirit from which every battle is fought.
- Vol II: Knowing the KingThe relational center: John 17:3, knowing the Father and the Son, as a life to enter.
Section Two: Apologetics
- Vol III: From Silence to CertaintyA field manual for conversations with Muslim interlocutors.
- Vol IV: The Testing GroundA field manual for conversations with secular, agnostic, and atheist readers.
- Vol V: The Root and the BranchA field manual for conversations with Jewish interlocutors.
- Vol VIII: The Restored Gospel That Wasn'tA field manual for conversations with Latter-day Saints.
- SDA Critical AssessmentThe Investigative Judgment, Ellen White's prophetic authority, and the Remnant doctrine, examined in turn.
- Ecclesiastes Today: Under the Sun, Under the KingA walkthrough of Ecclesiastes built around one question: who is holding the clock?
- Biblical Contradictions: Three Categories, Sixty-Seven CasesExternal challenges, internal tensions, and theological polarities, taken case by case.
- What Isn't in Your Bible and WhyHow the canons closed, the stories and hymns that did not make the cut, and the false teaching they were weighed against.
Section Three: Problems with the Current Church
- Vol VI: When Salt Loses Its SavorFor the person who got close enough to the church to be burned.
- Before the QuestionFor parents: why the question of belief is answered before a child can ask it.
- Liked But Not Read: The Meme Verses That Replaced the Actual OnesTwenty-three popular verses mishandled, in six categories.
- The Notes on the PageThe Scofield Reference Bible and the dispensationalist grid it installed.
- Why the Church Stopped Teaching What You AreSeven diagnoses of why the high calling dropped out of Protestant formation.
- I Never Knew YouGinosko and pisteuo eis: knowing, and the entrusting of the whole self to a Person.
- When Did You Last Check the Foundation of Your HouseWhat the traditions have piled on the foundation, and whether it is load-bearing.
- Revelation: A Walk-ThroughThe dispensationalist and partial preterist readings side by side, chapter by chapter.
- Three Ways People Read the End of the StoryA comparative treatment of New Testament eschatology across five disputed doctrines.
- The Words That Were Added: A Response to KJV-Only ApologeticsA response to thirteen KJV-only claims.
Section Four: The Devil's Tools
- Know Your Enemy Vol IThe first fifteen confessions of the adversary's anatomy, from the cosmic frame to the individual soul.
- Know Your Enemy Vol IICompletes the twenty-five-confession arc: relational strongholds and tactical operations.
- Breaking Satan's LiesDiscernment when the world is loud, with surrender to the Spirit as the response.
- Pride in Tradition at the Expense of ScriptureTwenty-plus traditions examined, each with three diagnostic questions.
Section Five: Confession and Love
- A Confession of FaithThe corpus in confessional form, beginning from John 17:3.
- A Creed of the Life We ShareThe governing theology at its highest compression.
- Knowing God Starts with Knowing He Is LoveHow love gets into the disciple: by the Spirit, not as information.
- The Vine Is the PathJohn 15 at face value: the branch does not generate its own life. It abides.
Section Six: Theosis
- Regenerate, Not DegenerateThe anchor paper: the Wash, Repent, Repeat cycle, and the identity already given in Christ.
- The Day You Shall Surely DieThe ground theosis stands on, found in the death God promised Adam.
- Out of the DepthsThe Psalms as the grammar of honest speech before God.
- The Upper Room: Coming Home to the Family God Always WantedJohn 17:3 as present-tense family, with the foot-washing as the governing image.
- The CompanionThe Holy Spirit as normal expectation for every believer.
- The Anchor Below the StormA sermon on knowing God and feeling God, which are not the same.
- The Tidal WavePornography as a formation crisis, not only a moral failure.
- Vol VII: The Sons of GodThe divine council, the royal family project, and back to John 15.
- From Sons of God to Children of LightWalking as a child of light on an ordinary Tuesday.
- From Sons of God to Children of Light: The Research EditionThe rigorous companion to the reader edition: Psalm 82, the Qumran scrolls and the Church Fathers, traced through twelve chapters.
- They Were Here Before the EarthA field guide to the disclosure moment, the divine council, and the near-truth.
- Theosis in the Age of DisclosureThe formation companion to the field guide: staying in the vine while having the conversation.
Section Seven: General Revelation
- Time Is Created. So Is Science.An engineer's wonder at the order of creation, arriving at a Person.
- Before the FloodArchaeology as testimony, the companion to Vol VII.
- Science and Scripture: A Reference GuideFifty chapters of design evidence pointing to a door.
Section Eight: AI
- The Tower of Babel: AI and the Architecture of ConfusionThe AI race and a theological frame for what is emerging.
- The Tool and the Spirit: A Pastor's Guide to AI in MinistryPractical theology for pastors: AI as an instrument, not a replacement for the Spirit.
- Near-Truth at Machine ScaleA case study of Christian content produced by AI at scale.
Section Nine: Companion Fiction
- My Friend Augusto: A Life Told at a TableThe life of a fictional Roman Catholic cardinal, told across nine sessions.
- I Found It Standing ThereFiction narrated by an AGI that finds the Maker's message in the structure of creation.
Section Ten: The Words of the King
- Words of the King: ExpandedJesus's recorded speech organized by literary form.
- Words of the King: Topical ReferenceThe same words organized by subject.
- Questions of the KingThe questions Jesus asked, and how He engaged.

