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.

After losing her beloved brother, her home, and her business, Sarah Mitchell gathers the last pieces of her life and heads west with her young nephew. She hopes Christmas in a new town will bring a fresh start, but instead, hardship forces her into an unexpected arrangement with Daniel McKenzie, the reclusive blacksmith who’s as wounded in spirit as he is in body. Daniel has shut out the world since the war took his brother and his leg, choosing solitude over sympathy. Yet, when the lovely seamstress Sarah enters his life, she slowly draws him back to the life and the church he left ...

Desperate for a fresh start, young widow Celia Harper arrives in Ash Hollow to become the new schoolteacher. Determined to bury her grief, she throws herself into rebuilding the struggling school—unaware her late husband has left her one final gift. When a reclusive horse trainer offers his help, she begins to wonder if the future holds more than she dared hope… Micah Thorne has spent his life between two worlds, belonging to neither. Raised in an orphanage and marked by his half-Native heritage, he came to Ash Hollow searching for the mother who abandoned him. He never expected to find...

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 ...

Build your first beehive from scratch and create a flourishing hive with this beekeeping bible. This audiobook has everything a novice needs to get started, as well as anecdotes and tips to inspire and instruct an experienced beekeeper.

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...

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 ...

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 ...

After years of hardship, Kate Taylor has sworn off love. Running the Hollow Creek Inn alongside her aunt, she finds solace in the quietude of small-town life, until a wounded stranger is brought to her doorstep in the middle of a blizzard. Faced with the possibility of true love, will Kate be able to protect her peace of mind? Ashton Cullen is a bounty hunter looking for justice and the man who left him for dead. He never planned to stay in Hollow Creek, but the more time he spends in Montana town, the more difficult he finds it to leave. People are kind, and Kate is too beautiful to ignore...

After an illness sweeps through town, Anne is left caring for her best friend’s son and trying to shield him from Calvin, his uncle, who wants to steal his inheritance.. She forges new names for herself and Jamie and joins the Oregon Trail in search of a lawyer out west who might be able to help the boy. But safety lies a thousand perilous miles away—and the tracker is already on their trail, stirring a flutter she can’t afford to feel. Patrick only needs enough coin to pay for his sister’s wedding, so hunting a kidnapper sounds simple. Riding undercover with the wagon train, he ...

With her father's sudden death, Ginny Bennett inherits more than a ranch—she inherits a perilous cattle drive no one believes she can lead. With the odds stacked against her and very few willing to follow a woman’s command, she turns to the last man she ever wanted to see again: the brooding bounty hunter she once idolized... and now can’t stand. Ronan McCallister has spent the last few years chasing outlaws and outrunning the shadows of a violent past. But when the man who once saved his life is gone, Ronan returns—not for redemption, but to repay a debt by guarding his daughter ...

When Lucy Griffin inherits a crumbling estate from Archie Templeton the town whispers that she must have been his mistress. Being in charge of the local orphanage, she has spent her life caring for forgotten children, never seeking anything for herself. Now she has the chance to transform the manor into a true home, but she'll need help from the handsome stranger who arrives at her door… Jesse Holden makes his living uncovering secrets, and he's been hired to dig up dirt on Lucy and destroy her claim to the fortune. Getting close to her should be simple, but as he helps with renovations ...

Eliza Hartwell has spent her life proving she can handle anything. When she inherits her father’s thriving ranch, the will demands she marry before her twenty-fifth birthday or lose everything. Desperate to keep her land, Eliza places an ad for a husband, and soon finds a mysterious baby on her doorstep, drawing her into a web of secrets tied to her ranch's legacy. Morgan Tate answers Eliza’s mail-order groom ad with his own hidden agenda. A bounty hunter, he’s been hired to find a woman and child, and Eliza’s ranch seems to hold the answers. What he doesn’t expect is that Eliza ...

Clara Whitfield has dedicated her life to the children at the orphanage where she grew up, working as their teacher and guiding them with kindness and care. She owes everything to the mayor of a nearby town, who has long supported the orphanage and to whom she feels a deep sense of duty. Yet when she meets Sheriff Elias Boone, his calm strength and gentle ways stir feelings she has long resisted, and she questions whether she could ever allow herself to love. Haunted by memories of the war, Sheriff Elias Boone keeps to himself, yet he quietly lends a hand wherever it is needed in town. When...

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Cora Mitchell leaves the comforts of Boston behind, heading west to marry a man she's never met. Arriving in Colorado, she meets Judson Carter, a reserved innkeeper with a kind smile and eyes shadowed by secrets. Though she is drawn to his quiet strength, Cora carries a secret of her own, one that could unravel everything. Judson Carter has built his life around control and hard work and is determined to leave his past behind. Yet, his new bride's spirited charm and quiet vulnerability stir emotions he thought he had buried long ago. She is not the woman he expected, but she might be ...

12 proven strategies to help you memorize the Bible faster and easier! Go beyond the simple "repeat over and over" method of memorizing Bible verses and learn the techniques backed by science and used by memory athletes all over the world.

Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization. Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible. Learn how the Bible transformed the social, political, and religious institutions that have sustained Western culture for the past millennium, and discover how secular corruption endangers the stability and longevity of Western civilization.

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 ...

Millie Dawson has spent her life under her stepfather’s control, her beauty seen as a way to line his pockets. When she rescues an abandoned baby from the riverbank, she loses her home but gains the independence she’s longed for. Her only refuge lies at the burned-out ranch of Cole Bradford—a man known as the Beast. Can her courage and love soften a heart scarred by fire? Cole Bradford lives as a recluse, scarred by the blaze that took his family and left his face permanently marked. Haunted by his past, Cole lives in seclusion, earning the town’s cruel nickname—the Beast. When a ...