First English Bible

The focus of this book is to help you feel filled with courage and encouraged as you deal with issues in your life, work, and church safety and security activities. My hope is that this book, combined with your own prayerful meditation and introspective thinking, will give you the courage to live and serve in the line of duty, where that duty finds you.

This story of the prodigal son teaches the power of God's love and forgiveness. God is always happy when lost people come back to him. Listeners experience the love of God through the story of a loving father in this My First level book.

Our Father teaches young children the world's favorite Christian prayer, and explains the meaning behind each phrase of the prayer.

My Very First Bible published to high acclaim in 2003 and its popular stories and bright illustrations have since gone onto provide the basis for a number of additional series - including board books, big books, and sticker and activity books.

What’s Love Got to Do With It? 1 Corinthians 13 Learn: Why the King James Bible uses the word charity instead of love. Every word of God is important. I do not believe we should carelessly change and modernize the old words used in the King James Bible. There is a reason the translators chose to use the word charity rather than the word love. Why was that? How to love you church Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it. How may we best love the church God has placed us in? Why charity is the greatest of faith, hope and charity. Surely all three of these are great qualities. But the...

British Narrator Simon Peterson reads The First Book of Chronicles in this wonderful audiobook collection of The Old Testament. As a well-known Christian Broadcaster, Simon has the ideal voice for those of all ages who want to listen to The Bible in full, unabridged form. His emotive reading perfectly captures the beauty and power of God's Word and makes the King James English clear and easy to understand.

Where Are the Dead confronts the timeless question: what truly happens after death? In these illuminating pages, the author explores the eternal destiny of every soul, drawing deeply from the well of Scripture to reveal the mysteries of the unseen world beyond the grave. Through careful study of the Bible’s original Hebrew and Greek words—Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Paradise—and the teachings of both Old and New Testament saints, this book clarifies the distinct destinies of the righteous and the wicked. Discover the biblical truth about the intermediate state, the first and second ...

MY brethren, if we at all believe that creation is the work of God; that highest wisdom, and highest power, and highest goodness, these, and not random chance, presided over its birth; we must then also, and as a necessary consequence, believe that to every creature of God’s hand a certain sphere of action was at the first assigned, in which moving, all should be well with it, for it would be fulfilling the ends of its creation; while, if it should forsake this, or he forcibly removed from it, all would then he harsh, discordant, adapting itself ill, or adapting itself not at all, to its ...

Joseph Lichtman, a young man from Frankfurt, is determined to escape the culture of the ghetto, still dominant fifty years after Napoleon. Dramatically, he not only leaves his family, but also steps back from his faith. Reaching Cologne, he successfully climbs the cultural and social ladder as a journalist. But the higher he gets – losing himself in the rich life of the enlightened circles of European culture – the more he experiences his own limitations and ultimately, emptiness. In the end, his detachment and loose liberal views land him in a Venetian prison. Joseph’s search for ...

The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians, narrated by Daniel David Jensen, from the Holy Bible, New Testament, Authorized King James Version.

In 1984 my little family, consisting of myself and my wife, who was pregnant with our firstborn son, moved to Astoria Oregon. I had heard of two families in the city who were praying for someone to come plant a New Testament Baptist Church. The evening we arrived in town, I met two others. While all four families would have said they were independent, fundamental Baptists, they were as different as night and day. One of those families in particular held to doctrinal positions that were strange to me and the rest of us. They derived those doctrines, to a large extent, from some typology out ...

At 48 years old, Konuah still shed tears whenever the pangs of loneliness and incompletion hit him. He hid his tears and told himself to calm down. The tears kept flowing, unable to control the sadness bubbling from inside out. Konuah began to shake uncontrollably and knelt beside the fence wall as sadness filled his empty wells. The man was on the brink of screaming with emotional pain when Little K entered him. The feeling was exonerating, exhilarating, titillating, absolving, exculpating, and all the words that make a person want to jump and say, FREEDOM!!!!!!!!! I HAVE FOUND MYSELF. ...

God’s son has come to rescue us from all our sins. But he’s just a baby. See how this child born in a manger grows up to be the savior that will never let us down. These joyous and hope-filled Bible stories of Jesus’ life—from his birth to his resurrection— can be read again and again.