Bible Discernments

A Garden of Love for $19.95 (paperback, color, 82 pages) Soft and delicate flowers, some fragrant and some just lovely, some in profusion and some very dainty, create a fresh sense of Christian love. By interweaving a depiction of flowers and the Scriptures, this book attempts to illustrate how flowers can inspire a Scriptural application of love. Feel God's gentle touch as thirty flowers are colorfully presented from the Gethsemane Prayer Garden: representations of the Father's love and our heartfelt response ... more ...

My first and second books are based on the Old Testament books of Joshua and Proverbs. One day I was reading in Isaiah 6 about the Lord's calling for Isaiah. I had no idea that a footnote from my NIV Study Bible would open my eyes to a new approach for reading the Bible. The footnote to Isaiah 6:10 reads: “The abc/cba inversion is called a 'chiastic' arrangement, a common literary device in the OT.” Note the words: “a common literary device.”

Soon I was enjoying my Bible reading even more as I understood God's word more completely. Just as the Lord was calling Isaiah in these verses, he was also calling me to discern this deeper meaning from the Scriptures. The result is the book Joshua's Spiritual Warfare:

Joshua's Spiritual Warfare: Understanding the Chiasms of Joshua for $14.99 (paperback, 232 pages) The Book of Joshua is analyzed using the chiastic (ky'-as-tic) approach and then is applied to the area of spiritual warfare – in doing so, we see the Lord emphasizing passages that would often be overlooked for their full meaning ... more ...

The next eye opener came while my daughter Becky and I were reading through the Bible. She was a freshman at a Christian college and had only read parts of the whole Bible. I believed that by reading the Bible together, I could help her draw closer to the Lord and also impart in her a stronger understanding of the Bible. That year, we spoke on the phone every Sunday evening for 2-3 hours while she was at college, discussing what we had read.

When I got to the Book of Proverbs, I was stumped. I could speak in generalities, but I could not state the full counsel of God on any particular topic because the subjects are so scattered. Now, four years later and after extensive research, the book A Topical Treasury of Proverbs has been published:

A Topical Treasury of Proverbs for $19.95 (paperback, 336 pages) From Anger to Zeal, each verse of the Book of Proverbs is classified into one or more topics – there are one hundred topics. Based on the NET Bible, the words from each verse have not been altered. With this approach, we can find all verses about a topic, meditate on them, and let the Lord minister ... more ...