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 Four in ""The Bible According to Jeanne"" Series.

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.

When the Apostle Paul wrote to the newly-formed churches he had planted throughout the Middle East and Asia Minor, he could visualize faces and names of real people he had met ... and recalled their challenges and victories as well. These three unique Epistles each bring a different aspect of life as a Christian, both in the 1st century and the 21st century as well. "Jeanne has the courage to tackle God's Word as if it was written for me in my circumstances!" A Dedicated Reader

I admire Joshua, and I hope I have some of his characteristics - optimism, courage, faithfulness, leadership, tenacity - in my personality. For I am as committed as he was to: "As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD"! (Joshua 24:15)

Moses the great Law-Giver wrote five golden books for the whole world to know what Jehovah God - the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - had done, from the (literal) Beginning (when the Earth was created), until the day His people entered their Promised Land. From these books - even those that seem to be all about rules and regulations, long lists of names and places - we have the foundation for civilization. Humanity is supposed to live by the Word of God, by the Laws of God, under the guidance and teaching of God Himself. Every chapter of the book of Numbers has relevance to the 21st century.

Jeanne Gossett Halsey's unique take on "Through the New Testament In A Year" comes to an exciting conclusion as she tackles the apocalyptic book of REVELATION, the 66th book of the Bible. You won't want to miss this one!

Its possible we psych ourselves out of reading ALL of God's Word when we look at the Old Testament and think, "Oh dear, that's all about laws and rules and things that cannot possibly apply to my life today." But think again -- and read it again! In every chapter, Jeanne Gossett Halsey finds a way to apply the Bible to life in the 21st century. If she can find it, so can you!

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?