Bible English Literature

On a long, dusty road under the blazing sun, a tired Jesus stops at an ancient well. He is soon joined by a woman from Samaria, her heart as heavy as the water jar on her shoulder, hiding a secret sadness from the world. This is no ordinary day. A simple request for a drink of water leads to the most amazing promise: a special kind of "living water" that can quench a thirsty soul forever. Join the woman on a life-changing journey as she meets the one man who knows everything about her past, yet offers her not judgment, but a gift of endless hope and joy.

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to walk alongside Jesus? In "Let the Little Children Come to Me: Jesus and the Children," you won't just listen to the stories of the Bible—you'll experience them with all your senses. This collection of twenty beloved stories is written to immerse young listeners in the narrative. Feel the soft hay in the manger where the most special baby was born, taste the salty fish and hearty bread that fed a hungry crowd, and hear the joyful shouts of "Hosanna!" as Jesus rode into Jerusalem.

When Hannah goes to bed on Christmas Eve, the last thing she expects is to wake up in a dusty shed with her brother and a chicken. With no time to search for their parents, Joseph and Mary take the children with them on the road from Nazareth to Bethlehem.

On the edge of a far frontier rests a place of gentle manners and common civility - Last Chance. Threats of war change all of that. A hero is needed. A savior. Meet Aaron Turner, the small unassuming man who runs the Last Chance General Store. He may not be all that they hoped for.

Deny that the Bible is, without any qualifications, the very Word of God, and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and without any supreme authority. In his book Divine Inspiration of the Bible, Arthur Pink aspires to defend the groundwork of Christianity - the Bible. Pink defines the Word of God, as the foundation of the Christian religion. The Bible claims to be a divine revelation, and as such, it transcends human productivity. Pink's book examines divine inspiration and presents several arguments which aim to prove that God Almighty is the author of the Bible.

In Jesus, Judas believes he has found the One - the promised Messiah and future king of the Jews, destined to overthrow Roman rule. Galvanized, he joins the Nazarene’s followers, ready to enact the change he has waited for all his life. But soon Judas’s vision of a nation free from Rome is crushed by the inexplicable actions of the Nazarene himself. At last, Judas must confront the fact that the master he loves is not the liberator he hoped for, but a man bent on a drastically different agenda.

When a charming polar bear cub climbs into bed one night, she asks her Mama a very important question, one that little “human cubs” often wonder about, too: “Where did I come from”? As Mama bear tucks her youngest cub under the quilts, she gently, tenderly, and reassuringly communicates the message loving parents everywhere (bears and non-bears alike) want their little ones to hear: "We wanted you very, very much, and we are so very glad because - God gave us you".

From the author of the acclaimed and provocative novels Fallen and The Preservationist comes a tale about a man who believes he is touched by the hand of God then instructed by that God to slaughter his enemies. It is the story of "this worldly existence of men and brutes, desire and unkindness" and of the woman, Dalila, at the center of it all.

Leo is a curious young boy who stumbles upon a crossroads where two very different paths begin. He is invited onto the sunny Path of Wisdom by a kind and radiant guide, but he is also tempted by the whispers of Folly, who promises easy fun and shortcuts down a dark and thorny trail. In this beautifully illustrated collection of stories, follow Leo as he chooses the way of wisdom and learns powerful lessons from hardworking ants, angry badgers, proud stags, and honest merchants.

Long before he was a king, he was just a boy with a harp and a heart full of faith. Journey back in time to the rolling hills of Bethlehem, where a young shepherd named David tends his flock and dreams of a life bigger than the quiet fields. From facing a roaring lion to standing bravely against the monstrous giant Goliath, David's courage is as vast as the open sky. But his greatest adventures are still to come.

In a sun-scorched land where water is more precious than gold, a man named Isaac must find a new home for his family and his flocks. But every time he digs a well and finds life-giving water, his jealous neighbors fight him for it and fill it with dirt.

Sometimes it can be hard to get children to sleep. This set of stories retells the stories of creation, Noah's ark, and Jonah and the whale in a way that is accessible to kids, without being scary, and builds their understanding of some of the important stories of the Bible and the Christian faith.

Annie Lawson thanked the Lord everyday for the life she and her husband, Sam, had made for themselves as sharecroppers on the Moore plantation. They were even more blessed to raise their granddaughter Liz, a bright, observant, book-loving girl who longed to continue her education past the primary grades. But when Mary Moore decides she wants Liz to drop out of school and become her private maid, Annie calls on her friends, the Miller siblings, to save Liz without risking eviction for her family.

Robert Benjamin Lewis (1802 - 1858) was an African American and Native American author, inventor, and entrepreneur. In the ethnological work Light and Truth, Lewis claims that Adam and Eve were people of color, as were the Egyptians and many great figures of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar and Plato. Denouncing notions of white superiority, he asserts that all humans have a common origin, and pointed to a shared cultural history between Africans and Native Americans.

If the past teaches anything, its lesson is that religious freedom isn’t always free, and some men and women must risk all to preserve this freedom. The year is 1777. “Yours is a cause most splendid,” Robert Aitken is told. Despite the threat of prison or the hangman’s noose if caught, Congressional Journal and Common Sense publisher Aitken is determined to print much-needed Bibles for American colonial troops, churches, and families.

On the first day the world had ever known God had a busy week in front of Him.... So begins Once Upon A World, a delightful collection of Bible stories for children. With stories selected from the Old and New Testaments, the fresh clear style of author Robert Duncan combines superbly with the wry and gentle humour of the late John Le Mesurier, one of Britain's most distinctive and loved voices best known for his portrayal of Sergeant Wilson in Dad's Army.

You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them. Life's disappointments can send you on a dangerous downward spiral into discouragement, depression, or even despair. But in this eye-opening book, Kay Arthur guides you to biblical truths that will help you break that cycle and instead embrace disappointment as the cleansing fire God uses to make you - As Silver Refined - a reflection of his goodness.

This is a story from the Moses and Other Stories from the Old Testament collection.

This banned and largely forgotten biblical book, dating to the first century, is a series of secret messages and instructions, which Moses revealed to Joshua, prior to the act of passing leadership of the Israelites on to him, and it includes apocalyptic descriptions in addition to prophecies. It is a fascinating look at one small piece of a much larger, rich history of the myths surrounding Moses.

Long ago, God created the heavens and the earth in seven days. He created humans in his own image.