by Gary Ivey | May 11, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible
Christians usually spend more of their Bible study time in the New Testament. That makes sense, because Christians are focused on Christ and The New Testament is where we learn about Christ and his ministry in the Gospels, then the growth and development of Jesus...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 20, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
In 2010 I began working on something that I called Thine Is the Kingdom. It was a historical novel based on the book of 1st Samuel in the Bible. I wrote it from the viewpoint of a number of characters, some named in the Bible, some mentioned but not named, and some...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 12, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
Examining the historicity of 1st & 2nd Samuel, continued In the previous post, I started my look at the historicity of some of the favorite stories in the Bible, which are the subject of my new novel Quest for a King, the first book of the proposed “Age of...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 12, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
Examining the historicity of 1st & 2nd Samuel I read A LOT as a child. I attended a very small denominationally operated school with a fittingly small library. By the time I left the school I had read every book in the library at least once. I remember from my...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
I’ve always loved history. I know, I’m a nerd, but not just a history nerd; I’ve been a band nerd, an audio-visual nerd and a coding nerd. I love history enough that I have always read books on history and watched documentaries without it being...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
If you are a friend on Facebook, you know I’ve been focused on writing screenplays of late, but a series of events led me to dust off a novel I had worked on and had thought was finished, but I now realize I needed to rethink it. Part of the rethinking was due...