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.

Cressida Lockridge once dreamed of becoming a teacher, yet widowhood and her sister’s injury have left her bound to duty, sacrifice, and a life chosen by necessity. When she finds a stranger bleeding near the river, she knows bringing him home puts her reputation at risk. She doesn't expect him to put her heart at risk too… Ronan Thorne arrives in town hoping to hide behind an inherited ranch and the broken watch that is all he has left of the friend he failed to save. Once a lawman ruined by a mission gone terribly wrong, he means to keep his distance — yet the quiet strength of the ...

Thalia Weston has lived alone on a ridge in the Wyoming Territory for five years, scarred and blamed for a tragedy she couldn’t prevent. A healer by trade, she survives on her skills and the land, keeping to herself. When a newborn is left at her cabin door and a stranger appears, wounded from a fall, Thalia is forced to break the one rule that’s kept her safe: attachment leads to loss. Rancher Josh Croft is searching for his missing sister, who vanished in town, determined to protect his family. After a near-fatal fall, he wakes in Thalia’s cabin, drawn to her haunting song and the ...

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 ...

Eleanor Calloway wakes on a riverbank without memory until a sheriff finds her and brings her to the safety of his home. Surrounded by his little daughter’s laughter, she slowly begins to piece together fragments of her past. As memories of her missing baby stir a deep longing, she wonders if the man who saved her might hold the key not only to her child but also to her heart. Sheriff Samuel Hawke has spent years protecting his town and raising his daughter alone after a brutal robbery stole his wife. When he finds Eleanor, something in her haunted eyes breaks through his walls. ...

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 ...

Clara Weston rides west with her young daughter, determined to claim the land her late husband left behind. Her new home borders a ranch where a widowed rancher is raising twin boys alone. When one of the boys falls ill, Clara steps in to help, finding herself drawn into a family she never expected to join… Samuel Callahan has spent two years keeping his late wife’s children safe and managing his ranch alone. As Clara cares for the boys and settles in, he is challenged by her quiet strength and courage. When he begins to feel something he thought was lost, can he allow himself to ...

Lila Harrow rides west to claim the Dakota land left by her late aunt, determined to escape the unwanted betrothal waiting for her back home. But to her dismay, in Ashford Crossing she discovers that the claim can only be secured by a married woman. With no husband and no allies, she finds unexpected help in the form of a quiet, kindhearted doctor. Dr. Nathaniel Cole has built his life around duty and care, raising his silent niece Clara, while tending to the town’s needs. Marriage was never part of his plan, yet Lila’s predicament awakens his compassion, urging him to offer a practical...

Eleanor Whitford crosses the ocean to mourn her sister, only to find two orphaned children depending on her and a will that gives her little mercy. To protect their inheritance, she must marry within sixty days and keep the kids close to their estranged uncle in the West. Can a refined Englishwoman survive the frontier when the children’s brooding uncle begins to soften her heart? Sheriff Cole Grayson has spent years denying the brother he lost long before death claimed him. Now his niece and nephew appear in his life with a woman too proper, too brave, and too determined for the rough ...

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 ...

Susannah Murphy never expected a stranger’s kindness to change the course of her life. Fresh off the train in Emerald Spring, she’s flustered when a tall, brooding rancher quietly steps in to pay for her supplies. She brushes it off—until she learns he’s Jasper Reed, the reclusive heir to the ranch her father now works for. And without ever speaking to her again… he’s just asked for her hand in marriage. Jasper Reed has spent years hiding from the world—and from himself. Scarred by a past he won’t discuss and weary of his father’s pressures, he’s resisted every attempt ...

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 ...

We know that 400 years ago, African-Americans were loaded onto boats as slaves. They were then dropped off in the Caribbean, North America, and South America. For those who have not researched their heritage on ancestry websites, they have no idea what part of Africa they are from. They have no clue as to the tribe their ancestors belonged to, nor the language they spoke. While every other race can say that their relatives are from Germany, or Ireland, or wherever, African-Americans do not have that privilege. It’s no surprise that over time they would eventually lose their identity. Some...

Eliza Thornton’s life is one of quiet routine. She keeps the town’s general store running smoothly, all while longing for something more than the ordinary. Her world is steady and predictable until a mysterious drifter arrives, carrying a baby not his own. In an instant, Eliza is drawn into a web of secrets and danger, and a connection she cannot ignore begins to take shape. Nathaniel Brooks is a bounty hunter whose solitary life is upended when he inherits the care of an orphaned infant. While searching for the child’s father, he finds himself in a town that hides more than it ...

Tessa Lark is the frontier town’s healer—relying on intuition and old-world remedies, and sworn to protect her father’s legacy. But she also secretly longs for the very thing that threatens her: real medical knowledge. When a formally trained doctor returns home, his presence threatens everything she’s built… including the walls she's learned to keep around her heart. Dr. James Langford has come back from the East determined to bring modern medicine to the frontier. But when a devastating injury leaves him dependent on the very healer he once dismissed, he is forced to question ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Orphaned and with nowhere left to turn, Clara Dawson becomes a mail-order bride and travels west to claim the only future offered to her. But when she arrives to find her husband-to-be dead, she's forced to build a life on her own — and to reckon with desires that don't fit the woman she was raised to be. Gabriel Redfeather, a Crow trader and scout, has spent his life on the edges of a town that tolerates him only when it needs him. Then Clara arrives — alone, determined, out of place — and he's drawn to her in ways he knows could bring trouble. What's left of a man who's spent his ...

Bruised, shaken, and unable to remember the life she once had, Daisy Harper awakens beside a river, certain that something precious has been taken from her. Alone and frightened, the town’s quiet kindness begins to bring her back to herself, and the steady, protective presence of the sheriff watching over her stirs a longing in her heart she didn’t think could ever return. Travis Morgan, a sheriff hardened by loss and the weight of raising a young daughter alone, has spent years pouring himself into protecting his town while keeping his own heart locked away. Life has been quiet and ...