For 60-plus years this author has focused on gathering inspiring thoughts, poems, and scripture. He then organized and included them into books condensed for quick and easy reading for both youth and adults–all while maintaining the well documented original text–scripture and all. The books in the following pages represent his work.
Jesus Christ’s Life: You gotta read this! is the second release of a book formerly named “The Reader Friendly life of Christ” and is a perfect introduction to Jesus Christ for children, teens, adults and even new comers to Christianity! It is a single, complete, and purely scriptural account of Jesus’ earthly recorded life and teachings among mankind. It is taken from the best of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John’s accounts in the King James Version of the Holy Bible. Instead of four partial accounts, this is a single story–easy enough for a 10 year old to read, and is illustrated throughout. The book makes easily available all of the events, sermons, parables, and miracles recorded in the Biblical accounts.
This book is written for the purpose of removing unrelated material and complexity in a person’s attempt to get a basic, clear, yet comprehensive overview of Jesus’ life and teachings among the people who knew him and recorded their experiences with him.
Jesus Christ’s Life: You gotta read this! is an attempt to gather in simplicity for youth, adults and particularly those just getting acquainted with Christianity, the message, spirit, concepts and wisdom in Jesus’ life and teachings among the people in the land of Jerusalem.
About The Book
This singular, purely scriptural and interwoven account of Christ’s mortal ministry among mankind is taken from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John of the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
This book is written for the purpose of taking the complexity out of a person’s attempt to get a basic, clear, yet comprehensive overview of Christ’s mortal life and ministry among people who knew him, loved him, and recorded their experiences with him.
The book includes an appendix, as well as headings, which identify and make readily available the primary and chronological events, sermons, miracles and parables recorded in the four gospels.
Jesus Christ’s Life: You gotta read this! is an attempt to gather in simplicity for youth as well as adults, the message, spirit, concepts and wisdom in Christ’s life among people of his day; rather than to analyze and speculate the complexity of social, cultural, political and other factors surrounding Christ’s life, as many Biblical scholars have already done.
By use of a singular and seamless format, and organized under thirteen chapters of pure scripture, Jesus Christ’s Life: You gotta read this! takes the complexity out of a reader’s attempt to get a clear, basic, yet thorough overview of Christ’s mortal life and teachings.
In essence, this book is a clear, single, comprehensive and uncluttered Biblical account of the life and mission of the Savior Jesus Christ. It is a complete, interwoven story not found in its entirety in either of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John’s New Testament accounts alone.
“I have read (Jesus Christ’s Life: You gotta read this!)…which was compiled by Sterling H. Redd, Sr. I have found that this compilation of the four Gospels…of the New Testament…has profoundly clarified and made extremely accessible and readable the mortal ministry of the Savior…. It is in a format that would enable children from about ten years of age and older to read the scriptures as they are written with increased understanding and appreciation.”
Garth G. Myers, M.D.-Pediatric Neurologist
Book Sample
(This book’s interwoven text flows in a single consecutive account from the best of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.)
Jesus Feeds 5,000 People……
And the people saw them departing, and many knew him (Jesus), and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him. Mark 6:30, And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. Mark 6:31-32 …over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. John 6:1
And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat. Mark 6:34-36
He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat? Mark 6:37 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes; but what are they among so many? John 6: 8-9
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. Mark 6:39-40 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down, and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. John 6:11
And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up twelve baskets that were full of the fragments, and of the fishes. Mark 6:42-43 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. Matthew 14:21
Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. John 6:14
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About the author
The author has had an identified interest in writing since one of his grandmothers recognized his writing skill during his teens. Having been orphaned at 12 years of age, he began living with his mother’s parents. Later in college he studied Sociology and English, then spent a couple of years in humanitarian service in New Zealand, and a year of active military service during the Berlin Crisis. Upon college graduation, he taught high school English for several years, then pursued a Master’s degree in Social Work, followed by over thirty years as a clinical social worker and writer/editor for a state health department.
He has had a life-long drive in recording beautiful and meaningful quotes and poems which have helped mold his writing interests and have subsequently found their way into a number of books in his retirement years.
He has a love of the gospel of Jesus Christ; but in his concern over the general decline in scripture reading, and the fact that the average reading level is now below the Jr. high school level; therefore, he has had a major focus on and has spent decades in making scripture reading much more clear for the reader, while maintaining the integrity of original text.
He also has a rather palpable love of people, nature, adventure, music and literature, which is reflected in his writings. He is the father of five grown children, and is currently living with his wife and their aged cat.
Sterling H. Redd, Sr.
