Western Bible

Biblical scholars Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. They identify nine key areas where modern Westerners have significantly different assumptions about what might be going on in a text. Drawing on their own cross-cultural experience in global mission, O'Brien and Richards show how better self-awareness and understanding of cultural differences in language, time, and social mores allow us to see the Bible in fresh and unexpected ways.

"We agreed on boundaries” she reminded him. “We did,” Travis agreed while looking into her eyes. "But boundaries are a lot harder to keep when I remember that you're actually my wife, Anna." A ranch she’ll do anything to protect. A broken man with nothing left to lose. And a marriage of convenience that might just catch fire on the lawless Texas frontier. Headstrong Anna Montgomery will do anything to save her prosperous ranch from her envious cousin, Edwin. But her father’s will leaves her a desperate ultimatum: marry within thirty days, or lose her legacy forever. Refusing to ...

May wakes on the banks of a river with no memory of who she is or how she was swept there, rescued by a brooding wagon leader guiding his company west to Oregon. As illness, hunger, and suspicion threaten the journey, she forges fragile friendships and helps on the trail in ways no one expected. But she never imagined she could fall for the very man who saved her… Lucas, a widowed wagon master hardened by loss, leads the train west with discipline and distance, determined to protect both his people and the secrets of his cargo. When danger closes in, and an amnesiac stranger ignites ...

Widowed innkeeper Daisy Ross has spent the past year keeping alive the inn she once dreamed of building with her husband. But when she rescues an injured stranger near the river, his kindness threatens to uncover both her guarded heart and the outlaw past she has tried to bury. Will, a Northern Paiute tracker, has spent most of his life caught between worlds. Neither fully accepted by his father's people nor entirely at home among the settlers, he's learned to rely only on himself. When an injury leaves him in a settler's care, her warmth and compassion begin to break through his defenses. ...

The complete cowboy collection at the ranch in Quinn Valley will sweep you away with heartwarming, uplifting stories of love, faith, and forgiveness - all with a sexy-and-sweet cowboy at the center of the romance & family saga! Contracted Cowboy: A fake ad brings a cowboy to Georgia's door just in time for all the Quinn family holiday parties, so she hires Logan to be her boyfriend. Nothing can go wrong with this plan...except she might lose her heart to her newly contracted cowboy. Secret Sweetheart: She's a domestic goddess. He works on her father's ranch. They could have forever...if ...

50 Wonderful Inspirational titles in one amazing historical romance box set. 5 Best Selling Authors. Includes one brand new never before published stories PLUS 49 other bestselling stories. 8 Complete Series and 15 books other series they can also be read as stand alone, every book is complete on it’s own that you’re sure to fall in love with all the other available series, don’t wait! It’s the perfect box set to buy for yourself and gift to everyone who needs a cozy, sweet read on a cold winter day. Include: 1.Daughters For The Wild West Complete Series Book 1 Monday’s Child is ...

8 Books 2 complete series in one box set! Mail-order brides Historical Western Romance … This box set for heart-pounding action, true love, and characters so real they’ll walk off the pages and right into your heart. As the temperatures drop and the winds blow, you won't find a better collection to keep you warm inside. Peril or Prosperity Series Book 1 Wagon Train Book 2 Hope Book 3 Rocky Proposal Book 4 Westward and Wayward Book 5 Tempestuous Bride The Grant Boys Series Book 1 Taken for Granted Book 2 Patience Granted Book 3 Wishes Granted Read all the Complete Series by bestselling ...

“You’re too close, Mr. Walker.” “Then tell me to go, Grace. Mean it this time.” “The closer we get to Oregon, the more dangerous this becomes.” Grace Hawthorne joins a wagon train with one desperate goal: reach the West before the painful memories she left behind her catch up. To protect her little daughter, Emily, she tells everyone that the child is her sister hiding the truth locked behind a carefully practiced smile. Ethan Walker is a man who notices too much. Rough, guarded with secrets of his own. Abandoned by his father and forced onto the trail with the broken family ...

Trapped by her father's harsh expectations, Emmeline Spratt is devastated when he offers her hand in marriage to a rancher as part of a land deal. Yet, as she begins to see the quiet strength in her new husband, she can’t help but hope that he might be the love she never saw coming. Patrick McLeod, a young war veteran caring for his sick sister and younger brother, is doing his best to create a stable future. But his unexpected bride isn’t what he imagined—her strength and kindness slowly soften the walls around his heart. Now, for the first time in years, he wonders if love might ...

When Clara Whitfield receives the devastating news of her estranged brother's death in the Wyoming Territory, she leaves her quiet life in Chicago to claim the homestead he left behind. But the land holds more than memories: among them, a silent six-year-old boy and a guarded neighbor whose presence unsettles her more than she cares to admit. Elijah Stone never trusted the sister of the man he once called brother. Certain she’s come only to take what isn’t hers, he’s unprepared for Clara’s fierce determination to work the land, and for the tenderness she shows the child he’s taken...

After years spent running from her past, Chloe Whitfield returns to Texas with one desperate hope: to find the daughter she was forced to leave behind. But when a stagecoach accident leaves her stranded in a strange town, she finds herself drawn to a man whose kindness feels more dangerous than the secrets she carries. Sheriff Nathaniel Cross has long guarded his heart, carrying the weight of his father’s death and a deep distrust of those who hide the truth. Yet the mysterious woman he rescues slowly breaks through the walls he has built with her kindness and determination, awakening ...

“This is not romance but only a practical marriage,” he whispers as he leans closer to her ear. “Perhaps we should let our hearts decide.” Caleb Hart needs a partner who’ll keep his house running. Left alone to raise his orphaned niece on a remote Montana ranch, he places an ad for a mail-order bride, looking strictly for a practical arrangement. He certainly isn’t looking for a wife with eyes as captivating as the big Montana sky. Running from an arranged marriage, Nora Whitcomb expected a stern, elderly farmer – who knew broad-shouldered, breathtakingly handsome men were ...

When Lillian Whitman inherits her father's ranch, she discovers a cruel condition in his will: marry within thirty days or lose everything to her estranged cousin. Desperate, she claims she already has a husband. Now, with her cousin coming to visit, she must find a man willing to play the part before her lie unravels… James Frasier never expected to become anyone's husband. Once a respected deputy, he lost everything when corrupt men framed him for a crime he didn't commit. Answering Lillian's advertisement seems like a simple arrangement, until she makes him want something he'd stopped ...

You'll get FOUR full-length novels in one boxed set, As each woman arrives in town to marry her mail-order beau, she gets drawn into the mayhem. Through every trial, however, the brides’ new husbands stand by their side. Tiny Twin Creeks’, California, has a mystery! When the town’s brand-new mail order brides stumble upon the pieces to an ancient treasure map, the brides suddenly find more than they bargained for in the way of heart-pounding adventure and life-threatening excitement. It will take a lot to solve the mystery—but whatever the treasure turns out to be in the end, the ...

Cordelia Fletcher awakens in a stranger’s home with no memory of who she is or how she came to be lying alone on the prairie. What she does know is that the quiet strength of the widowed rancher who rescued her stirs something deep within her, something that feels both dangerous and safe all at once. Micah Redmond has lived three years in the shadow of grief, his heart buried alongside the wife he lost. Devoted only to his daughter and his ranch, he never imagined fate would place a mysterious young woman in his care, one whose presence unsettles his resolve to remain alone forever. As ...

“How did you come here, and why Miss Hawkins thinks you are my wife and that we have a child?” Harvey served his country through the Civil War. With a shattered heart and faith, he returns to Rosewood Manor, expecting to reclaim the estate and rebuild his life. Instead, he finds a wife and son he knows he didn’t leave behind... Rosa’s life was never a bed of roses. When she is left with her friend’s newborn and the promise to take care of it, she knows she must have faith. Desperate for survival, she poses as the widow of a fallen Major. She only didn’t know that he would return...

When a dying woman washes ashore beneath her remote Oregon lighthouse, clutching a baby and a packet of documents, Elara Selkirk is pulled far beyond the lonely headland she has always called home. Determined to uncover the truth behind the child, she leaves the only world she knows, only to find a railroad detective standing in her way and stirring feelings she cannot deny. Jasper Rede arrives at the lighthouse believing he is searching for a kidnapped heir stolen from a powerful magnate. But Elara’s fierce protection of the child and the secrets hidden in the oilskin packet begin to ...

When Ruth Bellamy discovers her charming fiancé is the ruthless leader of the Iron Spur Gang, her world collapses. The truth arrives with a terrified boy who is kidnapped, orphaned, and the only witness to murder. Refusing to leave him with killers, she flees in the night and accepts a stranger's offer of a fake marriage. Caleb Harrow is a hardened bounty hunter chasing the gang that murdered his brother. When he sees a frightened woman begging for passage, he offers a practical solution: a fake marriage for cover. But protecting Ruth and the boy awakens something in him he thought long ...

“If I let anyone close again and something happens…” he whispered. “So you’ll keep everyone at arm’s length?” Her voice had gone quiet. “Your boys too? Me?” That wasn’t what he wanted. But he was stuck. How was he supposed to find a way out? Noah had been at the church for half an hour before they arrived. It felt wrong to be here again. Twice he almost left. But decency was his north star. Then he saw her. She was, in the plainest terms, one of the most striking women he had ever seen. And she was looking at him as though she were trying very hard to read something in ...

"Why do you push me away every time I get close?" "Because the closer you get, the more I realize I’d burn this whole mountain down just to keep you in it." Adelaide Whitford is a woman of high society fleeing a nightmare. After her obsessive, dangerous fiancé threatens her safety, she escapes St. Louis to become a mail-order bride in the rugged Montana Territory. She seeks anonymity and freedom, yet when she steps into her new home, she is met with the chaos of two grieving children and a lumberjack who is far too handsome for a man as cold as he is. Rhett Callahan doesn’t believe in ...