Radio Interview: Check out my recent radio interview at http://www.wnbnetworkwest.com/WnbAuthorsShow-KLewis.html. Find out more about the author and his books.
Book Signing
Thank to everyone who dropped by for my book signing at Barnes & Noble Book Store in Pasadena, TX. We had a great turnout and I enjoyed making some new friends.
Book Signing
Thank to everyone who dropped by for my book signing at Barnes & Noble Book Store in Pasadena, TX. We had a great turnout and I enjoyed making some new friends.
Dr. Kirk Lewis, Award-Winning Author of Imaginative Bible Studies for Practical Living
Please allow me privilege and honor of welcoming you to my webpage for my books and my blog. I've always believe we learn best through stories. Jesus' shared so many parables. Simple stories. Drawn from daily life. Steeped in truth. Yet, every chapter throughout Scripture reveals little more than a glimpse of God's relationship with his people. Little more than highlights of what had to be much deeper and richer encounter. So much was left unwritten.
I suspect the holes in the stories were by inspired design. What better way to allow God to speak to each of us through those verses telling the story of Abraham and Isaac or Jesus' nighttime conversation with Nicodemus. By touching only briefly upon these stories, God allows His Holy Spirit to help us to read between the verses to enable us to inject ourselves, our circumstances, into the biblical narrative. We learn best when we can put ourselves in the middle of each encounter with God, each conversation with Christ.
I first understood what that means as I sat in the sanctuary in Glorietta, New Mexico, listening in rapt amazement to the late Rev. Grady Nutt. His humor and his imagination separated the Sunday School Jesus of children's stories from the gritty carpenter/Messiah who changed lives with every step. His approach to Bible study changed my teaching as a youth minister while in college, changed my study as I attended seminary, and changed my years of teaching Sunday School to young adults. While I'll never have his humor, I hope to have a degree of his insight.
Life intervenes and almost 40 years after hearing Grady speak for the first time in 1977, I sat down to write a story...and another...and another. That work became the basis for my first book, Put Away Childish Things, published in 2013, and now its companion book, The Chase: Our Passionate Pursuit of LIfe Worth Living, published in 2015.
Please allow me privilege and honor of welcoming you to my webpage for my books and my blog. I've always believe we learn best through stories. Jesus' shared so many parables. Simple stories. Drawn from daily life. Steeped in truth. Yet, every chapter throughout Scripture reveals little more than a glimpse of God's relationship with his people. Little more than highlights of what had to be much deeper and richer encounter. So much was left unwritten.
I suspect the holes in the stories were by inspired design. What better way to allow God to speak to each of us through those verses telling the story of Abraham and Isaac or Jesus' nighttime conversation with Nicodemus. By touching only briefly upon these stories, God allows His Holy Spirit to help us to read between the verses to enable us to inject ourselves, our circumstances, into the biblical narrative. We learn best when we can put ourselves in the middle of each encounter with God, each conversation with Christ.
I first understood what that means as I sat in the sanctuary in Glorietta, New Mexico, listening in rapt amazement to the late Rev. Grady Nutt. His humor and his imagination separated the Sunday School Jesus of children's stories from the gritty carpenter/Messiah who changed lives with every step. His approach to Bible study changed my teaching as a youth minister while in college, changed my study as I attended seminary, and changed my years of teaching Sunday School to young adults. While I'll never have his humor, I hope to have a degree of his insight.
Life intervenes and almost 40 years after hearing Grady speak for the first time in 1977, I sat down to write a story...and another...and another. That work became the basis for my first book, Put Away Childish Things, published in 2013, and now its companion book, The Chase: Our Passionate Pursuit of LIfe Worth Living, published in 2015.
