The study of God's Holy Word is a privilege. The opportunity to read deeply and connect our souls with His own heart is a necessary practice, a discipline, an essential that Christians of every age and experience should enjoy. It should also be nourishing to the spirit, informative, uplifting - and certainly never a drudgery or obligation. Book Four in ""The Bible According to Jeanne"" Series.

The study of God's Holy Word is a privilege. The opportunity to read deeply and connect our souls with His own heart is a necessary practice, a discipline, an essential that Christians of every age and experience should enjoy. It should also be nourishing to the spirit, informative, uplifting - and certainly never a drudgery or obligation. Book Three in ""The Gospels According to Jeanne"" Series.

The study of God's Holy Word is a privilege. The opportunity to read deeply and connect our souls with His own heart is a necessary practice, a discipline, an essential that Christians of every age and experience should enjoy. It should also be nourishing to the spirit, informative, uplifting - and certainly never a drudgery or obligation. Book One of "The Bible According to Jeanne" Series.

Continuing the "Bible According to Jeanne" Series, we reach the Historical Books of JUDGES and RUTH. Revisiting the up-and-down history of the People of Israel and then learning how much their experiences still apply to people's lives today, this is fascinating! From the death of Joshua through to the live of Ruth, this Devotional Study will keep the Reader riveted!

EXCERPT: "When I read about the mighty King David, now an elderly man with poor blood circulation (see 1 Kings 1:1-3), I immediately remembered my once-robust father Don Gossett - a great man of God in his own right - in his latter years never being quite warm enough. A great warrior David had famously been, but now old age had caught up to him and he spent his time covered with blankets and sitting by braziers, with his personal nurse-assistant Abishag devoted to his comfort. The picture told of an infirm man told is unmistakable - but it should not be assumed that David was also senile. In his final years, my father's memory made not have been as sharp as it once had been, but he was still wise and filled with the Spirit of the Lord. David may have been physically feeble, but there is nothing to suggest he was past being capable of ruling as the King."

David was a humble man whom God raised to greatness, but what mattered more to him than the world's renown was God's opinion of him. He was not perfect but he loved and trusted God overwhelmingly, and that made him beloved of God. That is his very simple "secret of a happy life" - how many of us can say we have the same game plan for our lives?

After completing the "Through the New Testament In A Year" challenge in 2018, and successfully publishing all 12 books that encompass the "New Testament as a multi-volume devotional" ("The Bible According to Jeanne"), I looked at the Old Testament. I realized a thorough examination of these 39 books would take way longer than 12 months to accomplish; so I found a plan that permits chapter-by-chapter reading, plus a few chapters into Matthew to round off the year - over two years.