Books by Ronald Wallace

This engaging exploration of the Joseph story by trusted Bible scholar Ronald Wallace offers a fresh look at Genesis 37-50 and its continuing relevance to life in our modern world.Wallace traces the life of Joseph through his enslavement and subsequent rise to power in Egypt to the place where he would save the nascent tribe of Israel from sure starvation. Throughout these fourteen powerful and important chapters in Genesis, Joseph grapples with jealousy, selfishness, integrity, and other issues that remain pertinent to all believers today.Designing his work with personal or group Bible study in mind, Wallace divides the scriptural text into small, easily digestible sections and provides short yet deeply insightful reflections on each part of the story. In scouring the narrative for its implicit meanings, Wallace uncovers many aspects of the Joseph story, including its ongoing relevance to the development of Old Testament scripture, its significant echoes in the New Testament, and its implications for today''s church.Written and arranged to provoke discussion as it is read, Wallace''s ''Story of Joseph and the Family of Jacob'' is an ideal choice for all who seek substantive and fulfilling Bible study resources.Ronald S. Wallace is retired from teaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of numerous books, including ''On the Interpretation and Use of the Bible'', ''Readings in 1 Kings'', and ''The Message of Daniel''.

This is a series of expositions of most of the passages in the first and second books of Kings which give the history of the two prophets, Elijah and Elisha. Some of these stories are among the most vivid and memorable in the Old Testament, and have never failed to prove themselves relevant and challenging in the preaching of the church. Others of them present what to many are the most difficult moral and intellectual problems both for the preacher and the listener.

This book contains contains twenty four expositions of thirty of the main Parables of Jesus, along with an essay on their interpretation. It gives evidence that, in seeking to proclaim the Word of God in the present day situation, modern preaching is binding itself closely to the text of the Bible.

In the course of his ministry Dr. Wallace has found that the miracle stories of the Synoptic Gospels raise and answer the urgent questions about the Church's policy and future that face us today.

The Second Book of Kings narrates the decline and fall of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, each of which had been set up by God with hope and promise. Kings II begins at a particularly low point in history. Ahaziah of Israel enters bitter conflict with God, and even Elijah, the great and trusted prophet, proves foolish and weak when called on to witness to the truth. As chapter follows chapter, the hope that a king after God's own heart might one day rule in earthly splendor and peace in Zion begins to vanish. Jerusalem is destroyed; the captivity begins. Dr. Wallace shows how the God of hope and love presides triumphantly over every development, however perverse and foolish, as the way is prepared for the coming of the true and suffering King of Israel to his eternal throne.

The family today is confronted with pressures that pull it in many directions, resulting in much misunderstanding and poor communication. This book illustrates how these problems are not unique to our time. As Dr. Wallace guides readers through Genesis 24-36, the similarities between problems then and now become evident. Wallace discusses how family relationships - husband and wife, parents and children, brothers an sisters - were experienced in the beginning and the role faith played in their wholesome development.

The life of Abraham was characterized by failures, successes, and triumphs over his enemies . However, by trusting the promise of God, he overcame his difficulties on his way to spiritual maturity. Although Abraham's journey began centuries ago, many of his trials are like those experienced by people today - deceit, lust, broken promises, doubt, lack of patience. Dr. Wallace discusses Genesis 12-23 in easy-to-read chapters suitable for devotional reading and for sermon preparation. Recommended for Bible teachers, pastors, and lay people, who also will be interested in his companion book, Isaac and Jacob.

The year is 1875 and Fordham Fox is a young gambler setting out on his quest to win enough money to purchase a horse farm for himself and his accompanying best friend Bill Garrity. Fordham was raised on a similar type farm in Kentucky where his Osage Indian grandfather had taught him how to play cards. Gray Fox, Fordham's grandfather, had also bestowed a secret gift on Fordham that practically guaranteed him success in all games of chance. His grandfather had also warned Fordham that the gift had a dark side, which, unfortunately, the young gambler would soon experience. Aboard the Robert E. Lee, a gambling riverboat, Fordham becomes infatuated with a sixteen year-old beauty from Illinois, accompanied by her philandering mother and her aging precocious aunt. Tragedies occur aboard the Robert E. Lee that forever alters Fordham's dreams, severs his Kentucky family ties for years, and sets him on a relentless course of retaliation against the men who had wronged him. Fordham's prowess with a Colt Peacemaker, and a large Bowie knife with an inscription, "Krima Eleusis", are further gifts his Osage grandfather had bestowed upon him. These gifts come in extremely handy as Fordham encounters more notorious bad men in the practically lawless nineteenth century Arkansas Territory. He has to accept a new name, a new family, and he is forced to make a new best friend!