Books by David
Pennant.
For what prompted
me to start writing, click here
Dodging Bullets in
Snipers Alley
How can the Bible help us to
handle the big personal challenges of life,
especially the failing health
of old age? More...
The Church: Oh Dear
How can we get closer to
Jesus
in how we run our churches?. More...
The Riddle of One
Samuel.
My reading of the Hebrew text,
noting possible wordplays
that underline the message of
the book. More...
George's Diary.
A sequel to The Garden of the
Galaxy. Policeman George is in a terrible place
following the kicking he has
received from his supposed friends.
Will he come through? More...
The Bible. Word of
God? Word of Man?
Could I really trust this
book to be God's word, with the invasion of Canaan,
encouragement to beat
children and other problems? More...
What's the Difference
Between D and R? My Journey into Biblical Hebrew.
I wanted to learn how to read
the Bible in the original languages.
This short book tells how I
did it in a way which encourages
people to have ago themselves.
More...
Follow Jesus! Do I
Have to Go to Church? Can I Trust the Bible?
Part one: The story of my
gradual discovery that the twenty-one churches
I attended over over 65 years,
two of which I led, were not genuine churches at all.
Part two: questions about the
Bible that people ask, or should ask if they don't. More...
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Earthquake Tremors
: what is God saying now?
When Covid19 arrived, I spent
weeks asking what God was up to.
The thoughts that came to me
ended up as twenty-one articles. More...
36 Days in Intensive
Care
My experience of my time in
hospital struggling with delirium in 2018.
I was as close to death as it
is possible to be without actually dying,
and then made a full recovery,
to the amazement of the doctors. More...
The Garden of the
Galaxy
The vision of Abram the Seer
set a thousand years in the future.
Policeman George struggles to
deal with the difficult people
When That Time Comes
Following a solar flare which
knocks out the nation's computer chips,
a Neighbourhood Watch
Coordinator strives to save his community
from catastrophe.
and to save the local
residents from death. We weren't ready for the Covid pandemic,
nor for the invasion of Ukraine. Are we any more prepared for a
repeat of the Carrington Event of
1859? Or worse, of the solar flare around 775
which may have been ten times stronger? More...
The Piano Teacher (First in a
trilogy)
The recent discovery of anti-gravity
and infinite energy has had a huge impact on the world.
Who would have dreamt that
this would lead ultimately to a frantic dash by Bruce Winter, an
obscure piano teacher, to the asteroid belt to save humanity?
Leads to :
The Inventor's Folly
The Inventor's genius is all
very well, but what he get's up to is ridiculous, surely?
Bruce can hardky keep up.
Sequel to The Piano Teacher.
Leads to :
The Investigator's Choice
Life may appear to have got
back to normal but the young man David is now on the scene, and
his difficulty of choosing which of Bruce's daughters to pursue
gets overtaken by events, namely over-zealous monks cooking up a
severe storm in the Sahara desert in a bold attempt to bring on
the millennium.
The Priorities of Jesus
The story of my search for
how to run a church on first principles.
The title says it all.
2. The Church of the
Future, a study of the
great commission of Jesus (Matthew 28:28-30). More...
The Significance of
Rootplay, Leading Words and Thematic Links in the Book of Judges,
my PhD thesis undertaken at
Trinity College Bristol (CNAA 1989)
An Internet Play
Subcutaneous. A
play about one way the mark of the beast might come about.
Written for a small group to perform online.
Sound effects supplied. More...