I'm an author and theologian. I teach college level courses in biblical languages and theology at a small church-based seminary, Quartz Hill School of Theology.
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A 365-day devotional featuring the actual spoken words of Jesus as presented in the Bible.
Too many times the impact and grandness of the actual words Jesus spoke, as recorded in the Bible, are lost in the telling of the story. In A Year with Jesus, the primary focus is to allow the scriptures that contain Jesus' dialogue to uniquely speak to the reader. The author follows each reading with insights and applications to help explain the context and nuances of the text. The unique titling of each meditation and the nontraditional themes and organization help bring Jesus to our daily lives. Topics include:
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A 365-day devotional featuring the actual spoken words of God as presented in the Bible.
Too many times the impact and grandness of the actual words God spoke, as recorded in the Bible, are lost in the telling of the story. In A Year with God the primary focus is to allow the scriptures that contain God's dialogue and the revelations of himself to uniquely speak to the reader. The author follows each reading with insights and applications to help explain the context and nuances of the text. The unique titling of each meditation and the nontraditional themes and organization help bring God to our daily lives. Topics include:
Hope and Fear
Love and Hate
Perseverance and Quitting
Faith and Doubt
Loyalty and Betrayal
Companionship and Isolation
Mercy and Judgment
Forgiveness and Anger
Joy and Sadness
Peace and Conflict
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The Bible's Most Fascinating People
An Illustrated Collection
Stories from the Old and New Testaments
The Bible's Most Fascinating People gives the reader an overview of the most important and interesting personalities of the Bible. With its easy-to-read short-essay format, this is a perfect companion to the Bible -designed to appeal to those who know little about the Bible as well as those familiar with it. Get to know the Bible's most intriguing personalities--with all their human frailties and accomplishments--in this illustrated collection of stories from both the Old and New Testaments.
Published by Reader's Digest Books and available wherever books are sold.
Also available in the following translations:
Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, and Swedish
My science fiction novels can currently be found easily on Amazon.com or as e-books on my publisher's website.
Antediluvian is the story of Noah, but not like you remember it from Sunday School. It's now science fiction.
Somewhen Obscurely, as described at Amazon.com:
Mohado -- vulgar term applied to timeslipped workers. Living as virtual slaves, these desparate workers move back and forth through time at the whims of their employers. This is Aramond Smith O'Reilly's life. Witness to his mother's murder, kidnapped, and sold into a life of misery... He will never know where - or when - he will be. After escaping wretched conditions, Aramond rises above his situation. Purchasing a timeship, he becomes the very thing mohados dread and fear: a coyote.
Inheritance tells a tale about archeology, ancient biological warfare, and a lost civilization. Only available as an e-book from my publisher's website.
I'm married with three daughters. I live in southern California and I'm a deacon at Quartz Hill Community Church.
I spent a couple of summers while I was in college working on a kibbutz in Israel.
In 2004, I was a volunteer with the Ansari X-Prize at the winning launches of SpaceShipOne.
Member of
Society of Biblical Literature
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