SYLVIA WHEATLEY
Author
THE BOOKS
This book is not a deep theological treatise. It is an account of Revelation, the last Book in the Bible and a Book which promises a blessing to those who read it and hear it. It also speaks of how the Book of Revelation applies to us today and cross references to other passages in the Bible which refer to the end times.
There are many books about Revelation which go into whether this Book should be placed in history, the present or in the future. People have different ideas about it. Personally I would not dare to read it other than it is, as a Book written by God through John which is a straightforward account of what is to come. The warning at the end of Revelation concerning not altering anything is too serious to ignore.
God bless you as you read because He promised He will. He said through John in chapter one of Revelation,
“Blessed is the one who reads aloud the Words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.”
When we have Jesus in our lives we want to tell others about Him. More than that, we want to lead them to Him so they will have Him in their lives and will be accepted by God as His children. People who do not know Jesus need to be told of His love and what He has done for them when He died on the cross in punishment for their sins.. They also need to be given the chance to actually pray to receive Him. All too often we tell people of their need of Jesus and do not ask if they want to do it while they are with us.
This book is full of true illustrations of people who received Jesus and speaks of the power God gives us through His Holy Spirit to lead people to Him.
A journalist from Jerusalem reporting for the Judean Gazette. A Baby born in Bethlehem Who is no ordinary baby. Shepherds in the fields who see angels. Magi from the east who travel hundreds of miles to see this Baby. Could this be the promised Messiah which the Jewish nation has been expecting for thousands of years?
Read the story as it reported and see what you think.
A reporter on the Judean Gazette started his employment with them at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. Now Jesus has been crucified and he is still reporting, though now with news he never envisaged he would be giving. Jesus has risen from the dead.
The only way to ascertain whether this resurrection is actually true is to interview witnesses, look at the facts and see whether by prophecy Jesus is Who He said He was, the Son of God, God Himself and the Messiah.
This book transports you to the time of Jesus as you follow the reports in the Judean Gazette.
Sylvia Driscoll, a nurse, doctor, singer, writer and entertainer with a mind boggling IQ, adores her 81 year old godmother who had always been there when she needed her. Madeleine Robbins is a renowned actress and painter who lives in Les Logos in France and who shares a house with her lifetime friend, Sylvia Danbury. Sylvia Driscoll knows she looks very much like Sylvia Danbury but does not give it a lot of thought until she inherits Madsylleinevia from Madeleine and Sylvia when they leave. When she unknowingly finds a way to travel back in time she lands at an auction and buys the house with a young Madeleine.
It is the beginning of a double life as Sylvia moves towards the second world war in the past and becomes involved with pre war activities. In her own time she and her three year old daughter, Nerys, become involved with Madeleine's family and not least Jake, one of Madeleine's offspring, who has three small children himself, two of which have AIDS.
This is the first book of a story about love and friendship, the love of two women for each other which does not exclude them from loving their husbands and families, the kind of love which will take someone to the point of personal sacrifice.
In Book 1 of this quadrilogy Sylvia Driscoll, author, surgical consultant, entertainer and singer, had accidentally found a way to travel in time after inheriting her godmother, Madeleine Robbins, house in Les Logos near Versailles in France. She is shot into 1939 where she meets Madeleine young and becomes a close friend. In the present which at that point was 2002, she marries Madeleine's son, Jake, who has three small children. Sylvia's daughter is delighted to have a new sister and two brothers.
But the little boys have AIDS and do not have a lot of time to live. Sylvia is pleased to be able to go back in time where she stays for years at a time setting up an identity as Sylvia Danbury. Each time she returns to her own time she is able to make it that she has only been away for a short time, sometimes even minutes.
This book continues to follow the lives of the two women who, once the war begins, become involved in many ways as they work with the Resistance and take orphans and refugees into Madsylleinevia, the house they own together in Les Logos.
In the nineteen forties the war is over for the world but for many its results are very real. Sylvia and Madeleine once again become involved with the casualties of war and go on to live their lives in both their times, not realising what lies ahead of them which will complicate their lives even further..
Sylvia Danbury and Madeleine Robbins are shot into 1914 as the passage Sylvia uses to go from her time to the past where Madeleine lives becomes unstable. Madeleine, who had not previously travelled in time, has followed Sylvia into the passage and there is no way to return to their times. They take on the identities in 1914 of people they know in 1948 who look somewhat like them. Madeleine becomes Katherine Nouveau a French singer and Denise Nightingale a nursing sister. Sylvia becomes Nyree Nouveau, a French singer and the sister of Katherine, and Ann Lombard, a doctor.
The 1914-1918 war progresses and they are caught up in war work and the housing of refugees as they move to Switzerland.
I watch programmes on Christian satellite, listen to speakers in church and read books on how to live the Christian life. The speakers are sometimes speaking to thousands and everyone looks so happy. They are singing and worshipping the Lord and I know that is genuine by the looks on their faces as they come into His Presence. I know most of them have a relationship with God through their acceptance of Jesus into their lives. I know they want to do what He wants.
But then the speaker begins the talk and he or she tells everyone what they should be doing as a Christian. He applies do’s and don’ts and they are all true. There are things we should be doing as Christians and there are things we should not be doing. But I don’t believe when people sit there saying ‘Amen’ and ‘Praise the Lord’ that all of them are doing what they should and not doing what they shouldn’t. I don’t believe they find it easy to do what God wants. I think a good proportion of them will go right out and do what they did before, fail abysmally and be miserable as a result.
So how do we do what God wants us to do? By stopping trying so hard and letting God. This books talks about the practicalities of doing just that.
This book is not written to add to the Sermon on the Mount because the sermon in itself is enough. It is what Jesus said and is packed with teaching on how to live and on God’s love.
This book is written so we can pause on Jesus’ Words and think about them. It is written so we can have a bit of background and so we can compare Scripture with Scripture. It is written so we can, as it were, sit on that mountain overlooking the Sea of Galilee and listen to what Jesus said.
It can be read in one go. It can be read a chapter a day. You are welcome to use the chapters for sermons. The biggest prayer is that God’s Word will speak to you and that you will be blessed.
This book has been co- written with Nerys Wheatley and is a study in the Book of Romans, a letter Paul wrote and published for the church in Rome. It is written with a view to getting people to read and study the Book, not with the intent of adding to it. That we can and never should do. It also cross references passages of the Bible in the way Paul did.
This is a Biblical study on The Letter to the Hebrews which has been co-written with Nerys Wheatley. It talks about authorship and then goes on to study the letter itself. It is not written to add or subtract from the Book but to study, cross reference and discuss. This Book is a wonderful Letter to the Hebrews and also to us because God speaks to us through it. It is about Jesus. He is superior to angels. He is the Son of God. He is God Himself. He is our Great High Priest. He is our Sacrifice. He is the Author and Finisher of our faith. The Letter also tells us about great men of faith and tells us how to live for Jesus.
Reuben and Esther are slaves in Egypt and life is hard for them as a family with little hope of a brighter future. Until Moses turns up and then life becomes harder. Pharaoh will not let the Israelites go despite the plagues which God sends on the Egyptians. But then God sends the worst plague, the killing of the firstborn sons, and Pharaoh tells the Hebrews to go. What follows is a miracle, not least for Esther and Reuben.
But there are more problems ahead, most of which are brought by the Israelites on themselves. For Esther and Reuben it is both happy and difficult as they look forward to arriving in the land of Canaan which God has promised to the Israelites. Through it all their little daughter, Rachel, teaches them a lot about God which they would not have learned otherwise.
This novel does not add to or take away the account in the Bible of the exodus from Egypt. What it does is follow the fortunes of some of those who are involved.
The last week of Jesus' Life from Palm Sunday to Good Friday was horrendous for Him and life giving for us. This book says why He had to die and covers the Passover, Jesus as our sacrifice and the Lamb of God, Jesus as our baptism and goes on to the events of Easter week, the three days and nights that He was in the tomb and His resurrection.
Not only did Daniel survive a night in a den of hungry lions where he had been thrown for his refusal to stop praying to God, he also lived a fearless life for God. His Book is full of prophesies as God gave dreams and visions to him which are recorded in the last six chapters of the Book. Before that we read of his life and of the way God used him and protected him. It is a very important Book in the Bible because it shows how accurate the Bible is historically. All the prophecies in Daniel were fulfilled. Those in the last chapter are still to come. God enabled him to know what Nebuchadnezzar's dream was and then told him the meaning. He gave him dreams and visions and also prophesied through him about what was going to happen after Daniel who lived in the sixth century BC to when Jesus arrived. He told him in detail what is now history for us and those prophecies were fulfilled down to the last detail. Even the amount of time it would be to Jesus' arrival was given. After that God told Daniel a bit about our future.
This book is very important. If we read it and see how the prophesies were fulfilled we would know the Bible is true.
The churches in Galatia consisted of Jews and Gentiles. They all lived in the freedom the Lord Jesus Christ gave them after they received Him into their lives.
Until a group of people infiltrated the churches and tried to take away their freedom by saying they could not be accepted by God just through Jesus. They wanted the Gentiles to be circumcised and they wanted the churches to focus on keeping the law rather than on Jesus Who died to save them from a law they could keep.
Paul writes a letter to them to refute what these people are teaching and to show them that their being accepted by God depends on Jesus not on the law.
Nathan and Helen live in Antioch Pisida in the mid first century. They are as close as any couple and have one daughter. Life has jogged along with no particular traumas. That is, until Nathan notices a growth which gives him a lot of pain and causes him to begin drinking excessively. He needs to borrow money to finance his daughter's wedding. To obtain it he gambles then borrows from a loan shark which gets himself into trouble. Life becomes very difficult, not only for him but for Helen who cannot understand his behavior because he has not told her about the growth.
And then Paul and Barnabas come to town preaching Jesus and life in Antioch Pisidia changes for quite a few people, also in Lystra and other towns in Galatia. People discover a freedom they never experienced before.
In the first book of the series, 'Light Over Antioch' Joel had met Helen in Jerusalem when she and her husband, Nathan, went there from Antioch Pisidia to see Paul. They had worked together after Joel decided to follow Jesus.
Now Joel has gone to Thessalonica after visiting Lystra where he met Sarah, a young lady who showed him round her town. Joel likes Thessalonica and decides to stay for a while, particularly after he becomes involved with a group of rather wild teenage boys.
He begins to point them to Jesus and God uses him in his work with young people. However, things do not go smoothly as troublemakers try to get hold of Paul who is in the city. But Joel remains firm despite persecution.
The story continues as Helen and Nathan travel to Thessalonica to find Sarah who her family thinks has gone there. They also become involved in the work of the church. Their visit to Thessalonica is a visit which will change their lives completely.
1656 and they thought the plague had finished. There had been no deaths in London, Derby or Eyam over the winter. But then material is brought into the village of Lansett in the way it had the previous year in Eyam and everyone is terrified, particularly when a little boy contracts the disease.
Diana has an obsession with history and knows a lot about the history of the plague. She does not know what causes it or how it is transmitted from person to person but she does know that the appallingly dirty conditions in London appeared to help spread the disease. Adam, a young man who is out of the village when the plague hits it, comes back in despite the dangers. He and Diana begin to nurse people with the plague which brings results Diana never expected as she discovers the real reason for Adam staying and as both of them find out how to become children of God through the reading of a Bible which has been given to Diana.
The end of August, 1666 and the plague is finally over. Diana and Adam decide to visit London where Diana is to receive an award for her work in Lansett which saved many lives. They look forward to an interesting holiday and are blissfully unaware when they arrive of what lies ahead which will totally turn around many people's lives as well as their own
There are four Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. All of them describe the Life of Jesus. None contradicts another nor did they write what they wanted to write. They wrote what God wanted them to write and nothing else. Their education did not matter because it was God Who was writing through them.
John's Gospel contains a lot of Jesus' teaching. It is a wonderful Book. This commentary is written to show how amazing, loving and great Jesus is, to comment on His teachings and to cross reference to the rest of the Bible. It is firmly based on the the Word of God.
The Fruit of the Spirit does not belong to us. He does not give it to us. It is HIS Fruit. It is what God is. When we grasp that we can go on to live the way God wants as He shows His fruit in and through us.
