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 (see below). 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...
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. We weren't
ready for the Covid pandemic, nor for the invasion of Ukraine.
Are we any more prepared for a repeat of the sun's activity, the Carrington Event
of 1859? Or worse, of the massive solar flare
around the year 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 hardly 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.
Conclusion to The Piano
Teacher trilogy.
The Priorities of
Jesus
The story of my search for
how to run a church on first principles.
The title says it all.
It followed on from two
earlier attempts :
2. The Church of the
Future, a study of the
great commission of Jesus (Matthew 28:28-30).
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...