Every Christian is already in a war they did not choose to enter. Scripture does not treat this as a metaphor to be softened for polite company; Paul is direct about it: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12). Peter is no less blunt: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). Whatever else a believer decides about the Christian life, this much is decided already — there is an adversary, he is active, and he is not interested in a fair fight.

This site exists to help you do exactly that. At its center is a five-week course working through the church’s central spiritual warfare texts — Ephesians 6:10-13, Ephesians 6:14-20, James 4:6-10, 1 Peter 5:5-12, and 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 — built for a Sunday class but useful for anyone ready to move past a passing familiarity with these passages into a working knowledge of them. Alongside the course sits a personal study workbook that takes each week’s class notes further than a fifty-minute session ever could, and a set of full exegetical studies for those who want to sit with the original languages and the text’s own argument in detail.

Because readiness is not only personal, you will also find a study of the shield of faith written specifically for church leadership — a discussion guide meant to be worked through together by those responsible for a congregation’s spiritual protection, not just an individual’s. A separate study takes up “the sins of the fathers,” tracing what Scripture actually says, and does not say, about generational consequence and individual responsibility — a question that surfaces in nearly every discussion of spiritual warfare and deserves its own careful treatment rather than a borrowed slogan. Finally, an overview of Neil T. Anderson’s influential approach to spiritual warfare is offered here as well, examined on its own terms and set alongside the rest of what this site teaches.

None of this is offered as novelty. The battle is old, the armor was issued long ago, and the call has not changed: stand firm, having done all, to stand.

Note: These materials were created with the assistance of Claude (AI)