Böcker av Ken Schenck

This third novella in the Gabriel series has Gabriel recount the creation of the universe up to the fall of humanity in the rain forest of Eden. The account implicitly speculates how the perspectives of modern science might cohere with Scripture and Christian theology.

Those who believe God is loving and good have always wrestled with the question of why he allows evil and suffering to continue in the world. This book goes through the various issues and options, processing these questions and the best suggestions for answers.

We are at war. It is a spiritual war. People are involved, but the fight is not as much against people as against human selfishness and the oppression that comes as a result. God has given us a choice, and God has given us a charge. We are all Adam and Eve. What are we going to choose? Are we going to live for something much greater than ourselves? Are we going to live for God by living for others? Are we going to rise to the challenge of the world set before us and make the world a much better place or look for some lifeboat where we can wait for God to rescue us? You decide.

In this novel, a young college student works through his faith questions by dialoguing with "Chat," a voice-activated artificial intelligence, and a small group of friends that call themselves the Seekers. One by one, he looks at the various arguments and objections to the existence of God. In the end, he concludes that Christian faith is reasonable and that God reaches out to each one of us in the hope that we will move toward him.

In the spirit of John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the New Testament, Ken Schenck goes verse by verse through Galatians and gives general insights into the original meaning and connotations of this central letter of Paul. The explanatory notes incorporate expert debates over Galatians without the footnotes.

Walk down the typical city street in America and you will see church after church, all with different beliefs. What is even more intriguing is the fact that most of them claim to get their beliefs from the Bible. Who decides which interpretation is right In this book, Ken Schenck explores why Christians believe so many different things about the Bible and suggests the best way for Christians to use the Bible with integrity.

Gabriel is the arch-angel God uses more than any other to communicate with the universe. In this first of several entries into his diary, Gabriel recounts the coming of the Logos to the Earth as Jesus the Christ.

This book is part of a number of "Explanatory Notes" I have published on the New Testament. This one looks at the birth stories in Matthew and Luke, as well as the Prologue in the Gospel of John. We go verse by verse through the biblical text, with a special view to the original meaning, but also to theological and practical significance.