Below is a list of books I have written or contributed to. At the bottom of the page are some books that I am currently writing.
By reading these books, you will learn to see Scripture and theology in a new light, will find greater freedom in your walk with God, and will be challenged to love other people like Jesus. Pick a book and start your transformation today!
Here are the books I have published so far…
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Books by Jeremy Myers
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
Do you have difficulties reconciling God’s behavior in the Old Testament with that of Jesus in the New?
Do you find yourself trying to rationalize God’s violent demeanor in the Bible to unbelievers or even to yourself? Does it seem disconcerting that God tells us not to kill others but He then takes part in some of the bloodiest wars and vindictive genocides in history?
The answer to all such questions is found in Jesus on the cross. This book examines five key terms related to the crucifixion of Jesus to answer the questions above.
This book is based on five of the words I discuss in the online course, The Gospel Dictionary, which is available to members of the online discipleship group. Join today!
The Atonement of God
After reading this book, you will NEVER read the Bible the same way again.
By reading this book, you will learn to see God in a whole new light. You will also learn to see yourself in a whole new light, and learn to live life in a whole new way.
The book begins with a short explanation of the various views of the atonement, including an explanation and defense of the “Non-Violent View” of the atonement. This view argues that God did not need or demand the death of Jesus in order to forgive sins. In fact, God has never been angry with us at all, but has always loved and always forgiven.
Go here to learn more about The Atonement of God
The Re-Justification of God
Did God harden Pharaoh’s heart? Does God hate Esau?
These, and other related questions, are answered in this easy-to-read and insightful book by J. D. Myers.
Romans 9 has been a theological battleground for centuries. Scholars from all perspectives have debated whether Paul is teaching corporate or individual election, whether or not God truly hates Esau, and how to understand the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart. Both sides have accused the other of misrepresenting God.
In this book, J. D. Myers presents a mediating position. Gleaning from both Calvinistic and Arminian insights into Romans 9, J. D. Myers presents a beautiful portrait of God as described by the pen of the Apostle Paul.
There is also an online course that goes along with this book. Join the discipleship area to take this course for free.
What is Prayer?
Stop worrying about how to pray, and just start praying! This book reveals the simple truth that you already know how to pray.
Once you know how to pray as discussed in this book, you will also discover that you already know what to pray for and how to see more answers to your prayers.
Read this book and find the freedom and power in your prayer life you have always longed for.
There is also an online course that goes along with this book. Join the discipleship area to take this course for free.
Skeleton Church
How do you define the church?
Having a proper definition of church is absolutely necessary if we are going to function the way God wants in this world.
But defining the church is not as boring as it sounds! In discovering the biblical definition of church, you will also discover answers the most basic questions all humans have about their own existence and identity. Understanding church is the first step in understanding everything!
There is also an online course that goes along with this book. Join the discipleship area to take this course for free.
The Death and Resurrection of the Church
In a day when many are looking for ways to revitalize the church, Jeremy Myers argues that the church should die.
This is not only because of the universal principle that death precedes resurrection, but also because the church has adopted certain Satanic values and goals and the only way to break free from our enslavement to these values is to die.
But death will not be the end of the church, just as death was not the end of Jesus. If the church follows Jesus into death, and even to the hellish places on earth, it is only then that the church will rise again to new life and vibrancy in the Kingdom of God.
Put Service Back into the Church Service
Yes, you can BE the church in your community.
All Christians want to serve God, but few find much significant opportunity in the Sunday morning “church service.”
This book shows you that the most significant service of the church does not take place on a Sunday morning in a building with a steeple, but actually takes place in your neighborhood and workplace as you live and love like Jesus.
YOU are the church service as you serve others in the world.
Church is More than Bodies, Bucks, and Bricks
Many people define church as a place and time where people gather, a way for ministry money to be given and spent, and a building in which people regularly meet on Sunday mornings.
In this book, author and blogger Jeremy Myers shows that church is more than bodies, bucks, and bricks.
Church is the people of God who follow Jesus into the world, and we can be the church no matter how many people we are with, no matter the size of our church budget, and regardless of whether we have a church building or not.
Dying to Religion and Empire
Could Christianity exist without religious rites or legal rights? In Dying to Religion and Empire, Jeremy Myers not only answers this question with an emphatic “Yes!” but argues that if the church is going to thrive in the coming decades, we must give up our religious rites and legal rights.
Regarding religious rites, Jeremy Myers calls up on the church to abandon the quasi-magical traditions of water baptism and the Lord’s Supper and transform or redeem these practices so that they reflect the symbolic meaning and intent which they had in New Testament times.
This book not only challenges religious and political liberals but conservatives as well. It is a call to leave behind the comfortable religion we know, and follow Jesus into the uncertain and wild ways of radical discipleship. To rise and live in the reality of God’s Kingdom, we must first die to religion and empire.
Adventures in Fishing (for Men)
Using irony, satire, and humor, Jeremy Myers writes Adventures in Fishing (for Men) as an allegorical story about a man’s quest to become a successful and world-famous fisherman—without ever catching any fish.
Adventures in Fishing (for Men) pokes fun at some of the popular evangelistic techniques and strategies endorsed and practiced by many Christians in today’s churches. The stories in this book show in humorous detail how little we understand the culture that surrounds us or how to properly reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The story also shows how much time, energy, and money goes into evangelism preparation and training with the end result being that churches rarely accomplish any actual evangelism.
Why You Have Not Committed the Unforgivable Sin
Are you worried that you have committed the Unforgivable Sin? That because of something you did or said, God hates you and is going to send you to hell forever?
Do not be afraid any longer.
Through careful research and loving explanation, Jeremy Myers shows what the Unforgivable Sin is and why you have not committed it.
Read this book and learn more about God’s love and forgiveness for you.
Christmas Redemption
Christmas Redemption looks at some of the symbolism and traditions of Christmas, including gifts, the Christmas tree, and even Santa Claus and shows how all of these can be celebrated and enjoyed by Christians as a true and accurate reflection of the Gospel.
Though Christmas used to be a pagan holiday, it has been redeemed by Jesus.
If you have been told that Christmas is based on the Roman festival of Saturnalia, that putting up a Christmas tree is idolatrous, or that Santa Claus teaches children to be greedy, then you must read this book! In it, you will learn that all of these Christmas traditions have been redeemed by Jesus and are good and healthy ways of celebrating the truth of the Gospel and the grace of Jesus Christ.
Book Publishing Instructions
Get your book published this year!
If you want to publish a book, this is the publishing guide you need. It contains nearly 200 pages of detailed step-by-step guides (complete with screen shots) for writing your manuscript, preparing it for publication, and getting it transformed into an eBook for the Kindle, iPad, and Nook, as well as detailed instructions on publishing your book as a paperback.
Additional tools, tips, and websites are also provided which will help get your book published.
The Lie
When billions of people disappear from planet earth, what will government leaders tell the people who remain? This is a a book of science fiction dealing the rapture and the Antichrist.
This is (so far) the only work of fiction that I have written. It was primarily written as a way for me to experiment with writing books and to learn the self-publishing process. The book is also my shortest book ever written, coming it at less than 10,000 words.
So only buy the book on Amazon if you want a quick read with a creative look at what the president of the United States might say when the rapture occurs.
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If you join the discipleship area of RedeemingGod.com, you can buy bulk paperback copies of most of these books at a significant discount, usually saving you about 50% off the total retail price of these books on Amazon. This is a great way to read through these books with a book club or small group study.
Books Jeremy Myers Contributed To
Simple Church: Unity within Diversity by Eric Carpenter
This book is an attempt to shed light on the above question and provide some answers. The twenty-four contributors all hope this book will help people, both inside and outside the church, better understand what simple church life is all about.
Finding Church
This is a compilation of numerous stories from over 30 authors who have sought to follow Jesus in unconventional ways. Some of them have “left” the traditional church to be the church in alternative ways. Others have switched from one church to another. A final group stayed within their own church to help reform it from within.
Faith Shift by Kathy Escobar
After years of participating in a comfortable faith tradition, many find themselves in a spiritual wilderness, feeling disillusioned with church, longing for more freedom and less religion in their lives. This book helps you find direction.
The Practice of Love: Real Stories of Living Into the Kingdom of God
True stories about people’s attempts to live out the Gospel in daily life.
Not Alone: Stories of Living with Depression
True stories from people who have dealt with depression, or are dealing with it. If you, or someone you know, struggles with depression, the stories in this book are reminders that those with depression are not alone.
Books “In the Works” by Jeremy Myers
These are the current books I am working on. Become a member of RedeemingGod.com to be the first to learn about them when they get published.
- Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
- Commentary on Jonah
- Commentary on Esther
- Commentary on 1 Corinthians
- Commentary on Genesis 1
- Commentary on Genesis 2-4
- Close Your Church for Good
- Imperative Theology
- God’s Blueprints for Church Growth
- Good News for Believers (3 volumes)
- NIN: A Novel
- Cruciform Pastoral Leadership
- Christian Questions Series (Multiple Volumes)
- Redeeming God (7 volumes)
- Jesus Fulfills Religion
- The Bible Mirror
- When God Pled Guilty
Journal Articles by Jeremy Myers
Below are a few articles that have been published in theological journals.
- “The Gospel Under Siege” (JOTGES Autumn:2003), 43-48.
- “The Gospel is More than ‘Faith Alone in Christ Alone‘” (JOTGES Autumn:2006), 33-56.
- “Good Works: A Necessary Result of Justification?” (CTSJ Spring:2004), 2-10.
cool! and I even can blog and review them!
That is even better! I appreciate it, Leah.
everything anyone can do to help each other at least will make a small dent.
Hello Jeremy in times if great distress in the past I have asked you questions. You helped me out before and I hope you can help me out again. Recently I have been having issues of thinking promises to God when I don’t want to. I try to control my thoughts but it never seems to work. The other night I felt very stressed because everything I was doing my head kept on thinking of promises. I was under so much pressure I made a promise in hast in hopes that the thoughts would go away. But the problem is that the promise I made I can not physically do it. Now I’m terrified that I will go to hell because I can not do what I said. If there’s any information you can give me I would be very appreciative.
Michael,
Two things…
First, are you going to a church which teaches these things that you fear? If so, please consider finding a new church. If you are attending a church that plants these ideas in your head, they are not teaching you good and healthy things about God, or His grace, love, mercy, and forgiveness.
Second, regarding the promises you made, don’t worry about it. God knows your thoughts. He knows what was going on in your head. He knows the stress you are facing. He is not going to condemn you, hate you, or stop loving you simply because you were thinking some promises to Him that you have no way of keeping. It is okay.
This is a really interesting blog! Most times, I have seen some similar views, but they aren’t usually the most bibically sound (mostly because they like to pick bits and pieces, just like how you commented we can do.) . Needless to say, I am intrigued and now have some reading to do!
God Bless Your works and more than that the “Word of God and those who hear it!”
Love that verse lol keep on going man i stumbled upon this when i googled something about lukewarmness and it lead me to this lol like Youtube haha but anyways love your posts keep it up all from the Heart N Soul
-Uriel
God is……
Jeremy, did you ever publish your book “When God Pled Guilty”? I don’t see it mentioned here…
No. Not yet. I ran into numerous exegetical problems, and so had to go back to the drawing board. These problems are mostly resolved now, but this requires extensive rewriting.
god can sometimes be exhausted by everyone’s mind sometimes it happend to me a thtought came to me of changing the way i am from confused in life to confident
To what I think.might be wrong.don’t quote me. God knows every hair on our head .he knows are past present and future . then why would he send his only son to die for sins for only certain people. That what in the bible. Of john 3:16 . I think it saids god sent his only son to die for all who beilve in him. If this not true. Which I was asked by my pastor Brittany do you beilve God loves you do you beilve he sent his son to be a way to allow us to be with God . will you accept this gift he this loveing offered gift. . and I said yes. Was what I was told a lie. How do we know our faith is right then what budda or other faith is real. Which one is true . are all of us doomed in the beginning. What proof is there .GOd said that sin cannot be in heaven ? I think we all committed all the sin in the bible. No one is perfect. Cause if we claim to have no sins. We commited the sin of lieing bottom line if God sent his son to die for all . john 3:16 would be a lie. We are all doomed ?
Let me asked this . does the bible say. God or I think jesus said it . that he knows are past present and future ? If so. John 3: 16. Could it be a lie? Are we all doomed? I beilve if so we all committed all sins. Did Jesus die in vain. What’s the point of GOd sent his only son to die for certain sins / people . Does also the bible say I think the god or Jesus I don’t know which one . that he wants no one to perish ? I was taught that if you accept Jesus into your heart. And beilve that he is the only way. He will suffer and die for all our sin. In our place . cause he was without sin. When in the old times people had to sacrifice a lamb . I think for their sins.
Dear Jeremy,
I’m sorry for every Christian who has made you feel this way. I am a practicing Catholic with an emphasis on practicing as I am far from perfect. I am a 2nd grade catechism teacher. I try to live and teach by two basic rules. First hate the sin not the sinner. Second you may be the only Jesus someone ever knows. Again I am truly sorry and if you don’t mind I’d like to include you in my prayers.
Hi Jeremy,
Did your Skeleton church course, read atonement of God and rejustification of God. Now I’m finishing up the series on closing the church, I’m just closing in on the end of religion and empire. I’m looking forward to your boook on pastoral leadership. I’m also reading the book and emails on the unforgivable sin.
I do understand your concerns. Like you I’m working out my theology. I still cling to,all the fundamentals but somethings change over time and we get a new perspective on something (eg open theism).
I however am not willing to give up on the church. I hear a lot of tv pastors speaking and I think they have seen the truth in the word but they can’t buck tradition or they’d be out of a job. I think this is a big problem, men who know the truth but can’t speak it for fear of being fired.
I think you are on the right track but as I have said before you shock and awe me and then you show me scripture which setttles me down.
Keep on with what you’re doing, your helping me and many others. Remember I’m here to ask questions and look for answers, isn’t that what you asked me to do.
Yes, don’t give up on church. I haven’t either. Church is one of the primary ways that God works in this world.
I committed adultry while married to my first wife,then we divorced and married a woman who got divorced from her husband because they both committed adultry,can I/we be saved from this sin or is it ongoing and unforgivable
Yes. All of you are already forgiven, and can receive eternal life by believing in Jesus for it.
In your podcast on Matthew 13:40-42 you said that “In other words, Jesus wanted people to be confused by His parables. Why? So that those who wanted to learn what He was talking about would come to Him for an explanation.”
“But the Bible says- “He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.”
Matthew 13:11 NIV
“This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
Matthew 13:13-14 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.13.13-14.NIV
Why isn’t this mentioned? It your answer an additional reason? Seems to me Jesus wanted to shut some people out.
Thanks for your answer.
I think I may be able to help here. I believe what he’s saying is they had a choice. God loves all of us and he wants us to come to him and to accept his son and had they done that he would have been able to give them wisdom to understand what he was saying, but had they not they would be left in the dark. Though they, much like modern day bible belters, were amazingly irritating and stubborn being as most were more interested in religion than relationship with God, he still loved them deeply and wanted them to come to him. Even the worst of the worst. I get what you’re saying though, Jesus tended to have an attitude with only one group of people, and they can be exhausting to deal with.
Updates on words of Calvinism book
I am new here. I recently bought your audiobook on what is Prayer? How to pray to God the way you talk to a friend. i have only just started listening to this. I have ran a daily intercessory prayer telephone group for over seven years now. And i want to learn more about prayer and join this community here.
Hi Jeremy,
As someone who’s purchased your publications and followed your story even through GES, I’d appreciate any resources critiquing the GES [Zane Hodges & Bob Wilkins) version of salvation – minus repentance. Many thanks
I have read three of your books, most recently “What is HELL?” I just posted a review on Amazon, with a headline of “A 5th option exists!!!”
I truly appreciate and agree with your point that we all live, in the here-and-now, among “the kingdom of hell” that we make or other make, or both… but we all have the opportunity to enter and to interact with “the Kingdom of Heaven” or “the Kingdom of God”, in the here-and-now, as Jesus taught. Loved your exegeses of parables and other scriptures (I think I would have been more satisfied if I read the Appendixes first).
Would love to get your opinion on “the 5th option”, if you are not too busy with other things.
I would really like to see you finish your proposed books:
The Gospel According to Scripture
The Gospel Dictionary
After reading the Atonement of God, I have one question in Chapter 11, Reveals the truth about violence. I understand you discussion about violence begets violence and it just continues a downward spiral. So we go with forgiveness instead of returning violence. That in itself is hard, but I agree is very doable. If Christ can do it on the cross, then I am sure we can do it. So on a personal level, I understand it.
pg 135 – The myth of redemptive violence. Let’s take this week as an example with Hamas attacking Israel with horrible massacres of civilians. You knew when it happened that Israel was going to meet that violence with more violence and there was not going to be a lot of forgiveness involved. If they just forgive and don’t stop the killing, Hamas could go and totally wipe out an entire population. Then where are you? The evil in the world would overtake all the good if it just ran rampant.
I am obviously missing something. If you touch this in a study or book in more detail, please pass it on to me.
If the destroyer was to kill all, why than did he not kill all in the homes that were not protected by GOD. you stated more than once that he (the destroyer) kills all. but GOD protected some of the homes.
What happened to my question? I saw it was marked for review, but it just disappeared. I didn’t get an email responding to it either. I am sure you get more emails than you can respond to, but I thought you would respond to that one, at least to me if not online. Or do I need to be paid member to get a response.? Just asking.
Thanks
Scott