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MULTIPLE USES OF  PAPA, TELL US ABOUT THE BIBLE[This Book''s Engaging Little Drama Lends Itself to Multiple Uses]Parents and GrandparentsParents and grandparents, this book can serve as an interesting and helpful guide in teaching your teenage children and grandchildren about the Bible. Listen to Papa and his three teenage granddaughters engaged in a lively and instructive dialogue about the Bible.  TeenagersTeenagers, this book provides you a Bible guide in the form of an engaging dialogue. Hear the Bible communicated through a lively exchange between Papa and his three teenage granddaughters.FamiliesFamilies, this book can serve to host quality time together. A parent or grandparent assumes the role of Papa; younger members of the family assume the roles of the teenage characters. This done, the book becomes a playbook, the family becomes a cast of characters reading aloud their lines, and the action becomes an engaging and instructive Bible drama for the whole family to witness and discuss. Church Youth DirectorsChurch youth directors, this book can well serve teenage youth groups, especially when used as a playbook with group members assuming the roles of the book''s characters and reading aloud the characters'' lines, thereby producing an engaging and instructive Bible drama for group discussion.Youth Camp CounselorsYouth camp counselors, this book provides an engaging activity for teenage groups when used as a playbook. Designated members of the group read aloud the characters'' lines, thus creating a lively and instructive Bible drama for reflective discussion.Fellowship of Christian AthletesFCA leaders, this book provides a compelling means of enhancing teenage athletes'' understanding of the Bible. Whether they read it individually and silently or read it aloud with a group, they vicariously participate in the characters'' instructive dialogue in their journey through the Holy Book.  Bob Dowell, PhD, is an innovative Christian writer dedicated to counteracting the rising tide of cultural indifference to traditional Biblical values. In the innovative Papa, Tell Us About the Bible, Dr. Bob utilizes dramatic framework to place readers in front-row center seats for purposes of witnessing the lively and engaging dialogue between Papa and his three teenage granddaughters as they journey through the Bible discovering and discussing its eternal truths-essential guides for living a purposeful life.

Understanding the Bible: Head and Heart provides readers a forum for more fully comprehending the Bible.  Each book of the Bible tells a story that relates to the larger story, and to understand each book’s story, it is important to understand the larger story, and vice versa.  To do so, however, entails a careful reading of the entire Bible, grasping both the fact of the story and the spirit of the story.  Understanding the Bible: Head and Heart provides prose summaries for helping the reader to understand and remember the fact of the story and poetic summaries for helping the reader to experience the story and thereby to more readily ingest its spirit.Since Understanding the Bible: Head and Heart would be lengthy under one cover, it is divided into three parts. Part One addresses the Old Testament, Part Two addresses  Matthew through Acts, and Part Three—this publication—addresses Romans through Revelation.

Understanding the Bible: Head and Heart provides readers a forum for more fully comprehending the Bible. Each book of the Bible tells a story that relates to the larger story, and to understand each book's story it is important to understand the larger story, and vice versa. To do so, however, entails a careful reading of the entire Bible, grasping both the fact of the story and the spirit of the story. Understanding the Bible: Head and Heart provides prose summaries for helping the reader to understand and remember the fact of the story, and poetic summaries for helping the reader to experience the story and thereby to more readily ingest its spirit. Since Understanding the Bible: Head and Heart would be a bit lengthy under one cover, it is divided into two parts: Part One addresses The Old Testament, and Part Two addresses The New Testament. This publication is Part One. Part Two is forthcoming. Bob Dowell, English professor, retired from the University of Texas-Pan American in 1999 in order to devote full time to a project conceived while teaching his favorite course: "The Bible as Literature." He envisioned developing a forum in which readers could readily engage in a head and heart understanding of the Bible. For a decade he worked on the project all the while piloting his production through a church sponsored bible study: "Back to the Bible with Dr. Bob." The success of that study spoke convincingly to the efficacy of publishing the materials for purposes of reaching a wider audience. Thus, Dr. Bob's vision becomes a reality in the publication of Understanding the Bible: Head and Heart. Fittingly, his first publication as a professor is an article in College English (1965) entitled "The Moment of Grace in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor."