Bible West

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.

Rebecca Tatum has inherited her father's ranch and a heavy burden — she must marry to keep her family's land. A chance encounter in the woods leaves a newborn in her arms, and the stranger who helped her save the child turns out to be the man who answered her mail-order ad. Suddenly, Rebecca finds herself with far more to protect than just her home. Matthew Pike came west to answer a mail-order bride advertisement, unaware that the woman never received his letter. His real mission is to uncover the truth behind his brother's suspicious death in the local mines. But as he stands beside ...

"You're risking everything for me." "No. I'm protecting what's mine." Nancy Rhodes never thought she would have to start over. After escaping an abusive marriage, she arrives at a remote Montana ranch with her young son, Tommy. The last thing she wants is to depend on another man. Then she meets William McGraw. Quiet, dependable, and carrying wounds of his own, William has spent years building a life far from the mistakes of his past. He offers Nancy a place to stay—nothing more. At least, that's what they both tell themselves. "You don't have to carry the whole world alone," William says...

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 ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

What if the "missing books of the Bible" were not a conspiracy to fear, but a history to understand? If you have searched for the Ethiopian Bible online, you have likely found hype, warnings, and dramatic claims about forbidden books, Enoch, fallen angels, and hidden truth. This audiobook gives curious listeners a calm, clear guide to one of the most fascinating and misunderstood subjects in biblical history.

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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 ...

There was an uneasy tension as the slave owners sought to maintain control and keep the slaves working calmly and the abolitionists began to question the moral cost of slavery. As they prepared to compile a special Bible for slaves in the West Indies, the missionaries agreed to uplift the Africans without teaching them anything that could incite rebellion. The Slave Bible is one of the most powerful examples ever witnessed of manipulation using a controlled narrative.

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 ...

After her aunt and cousin die, gifted healer Isabell Rowley takes her young nephew west to claim the neglected Wyoming ranch he inherited. With no money and no allies, she has no room for distractions. But the quiet rancher next door stirs a longing for home she never expected to feel. Widower Mark Sullivan wants only to protect his stepdaughter Jessie and the ranch that belongs to her. When Jessie falls ill with the same sickness that took his wife, desperation drives him to the healer next door. Isabell saves his daughter—and slowly begins to heal something in him he thought beyond ...

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 ...

"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 ...

“I won't let anyone hurt you.” Ruth blinks. “I thought you didn't want me here.” All Ruth Bennett has ever wanted is a place to call home. Raised in a Dodge City brothel and left alone after her mother's death, Ruth is desperate to protect the only family she has left—her six-year-old sister. So when she discovers an advertisement from a Kansas rancher seeking a wife, she takes a leap of faith and travels west, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she finds Henry Collins. The brooding horse rancher never expected his mail-order bride to arrive with a child in tow. Worse, she makes ...

"No one hurts what's mine." Amy's breath catches. "Am I yours?" Amy Reid thought she had finally escaped. After the death of her husband, she flees her cruel father-in-law with the only family she has left—her young son and stepdaughter. Lost in a blizzard and with nowhere to turn, Amy's last hope is an abandoned shack on the edge of the Wyoming frontier. Then John Sullivan finds them. The quiet rancher has spent years avoiding people, convinced he's better off alone. Taking in a frightened widow and two children is the last thing he wants. "You'll stay until the storm passes," John says ...

Annie Vale never expected to be raising her late sister’s twins while struggling to save a ranch she barely knows how to run. Desperate for help, the young seamstress places an advertisement for a mail-order groom. When a polished stranger arrives, his gentle way with the grieving twins begins to draw him closer to the fragile family she's fighting to protect. Julian Fairchild is a wealthy mining heir fleeing a ruthless stepfather determined to steal his fortune and end his life. After escaping West under a false name, he answers Annie’s advertisement, hoping her remote ranch will keep ...

Lydia Carrow wakes with no memory, no name, and no idea why she was found unconscious in the snow. The doctor caring for her calls her by a name she doesn't recognize, and the infant in his arms stirs something deep she cannot explain. As her strength returns, so does a connection she never expected-with the baby, and with the man who refuses to let her go. Dr. Caleb Whitaker has buried himself in work since love left him wounded. When a foundling appears on his doorstep, and a mysterious woman is found in the woods, his quiet life shatters. Lydia tends the baby like her own and shows ...