{"id":808,"date":"2025-09-02T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/?p=808"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:41:46","slug":"living-into-the-bibles-grand-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/living-into-the-bibles-grand-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Into the Bible’s Grand Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the Bible all about?<\/strong> The Bible is a collection of sixty-six different pieces of literature. These \u2018books\u2019 of the Bible include everything from ancient history to erotic love poetry to personal letters! Reading the Bible\u2014to say nothing of understanding and applying it\u2014can be overwhelming and confusing. Is there a single drama that runs throughout Scripture? Is there a grand story of which we are a part? The answer is \u201cYes!\u201d This devotional guides you through four major themes in Scripture over the course of a year. Each week includes short reflections and invitations to discover parts of the narrative of Scripture to help you find your place in the Bible\u2019s grand story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: <\/strong>Dr. Israel Steinmetz (DMin Fuller Theological Seminary) is a pastor-theologian with thirty years of Christian ministry, leadership, writing, and teaching experience throughout the U.S. and around the world. He has served as a local church pastor, civilian chaplain with the U.S. Navy, and as faculty for Christian colleges and seminaries for over a decade. Israel is currently Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Practical Theology at The Bible Seminary in Katy, Texas. He and his wife, Anna, have ten children and are active members of Grace Fellowship Free Methodist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managing Editor:<\/strong> A seasoned entrepreneur with a diverse professional background of more than four decades in business, education, and ministry, K. Lynn Lewis has enjoyed careers as an engineer, senior pastor, administrator, director, and CEO and President, and served in leadership on numerous boards and in a variety of organizations. He currently serves as President of The Bible Seminary and is the Founder and President of “InspireUSA: Celebrating the Best of America\u00ae.” His productions and publications include many articles, books, a cable TV show, a dissertation, magazines, musicals, songs, videos, and web sites. A native Georgian and current Texan, he and his wife, Wendy, have three children and an increasing quiver of grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published by Nehemiah Press<\/a>, 2025, 217 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the Bible all about? The Bible is a collection of sixty-six different pieces of literature. These \u2018books\u2019 of the Bible include everything from ancient history to erotic love poetry to personal letters! Reading the Bible\u2014to say nothing of understanding and applying it\u2014can be overwhelming and confusing. Is there a single drama that runs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}