Friday, May 23, 2025

About the Book

Book: The Bible Companion Book 1 Genesis–Exodus: Journey through Scripture One Day at a Time

Author: Karen Westbrook Moderow

Genre: Bible Study

Release date: April 16, 2024

The Bible Companion series is a simple, flexible, and compelling Bible Study guide. Short daily readings link God’s story to yours, help you through difficult passages, and highlight the treasures in each chapter of the Bible. In Genesis and Exodus, God reveals Himself as a loving Creator who longs to walk through life with you. Book 1 takes you deep into God’s plan to share His life and wisdom with those who love and follow Him. The storytelling approach of the series will keep you reading, even through the parts that are challenging and hard-to-understand. Find hope in the stories of ordinary men and women in the Bible whose encounters with God transformed them and reversed the direction of their lives. Discover that what God has done for them, He can do for you.

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About the Author

Karen Westbrook Moderow is a Bible teacher and author who brings a storyteller’s perspective to Scripture. She graduated magna cum laude from California State University at Long Beach with a BA in English Literature. She also holds an MFA from Chapman University in creative writing and a Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Seminary. She has been published by numerous Christian periodicals and authored two previous books.

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A Father-Daughter Legacy: The Bible Companion Series
In 1993, my father, Pastor Floyd Westbrook challenged a group of men and women from his weekly Bible study to join him in reading the Bible from cover to cover. He found if he wrote short daily lessons for each chapter, people stayed engaged and were transformed by the Scripture they read. His work, though enjoyed by hundreds, was never widely published.
I shared his passion for making God’s word accessible to people who found it hard to understand parts of the Bible, couldn’t keep up with the schedule, or couldn’t relate Scripture to their journey. Later, after I completed degrees in theology and creative writing, we realized combining storytelling with his format could help people overcome the most common barriers to Bible reading. With his blessing, I began working on The Bible Companion. The result is a story-rich study which is simple, flexible, yet rich in content.
The Bible Companion Book 1 Genesis–Exodus is the first of twelve books that tracks God story from creation to the end of time. God, who tells His story through families, has graciously given me the privilege of carrying on my father’s legacy through The Bible Companion series.

Father and daughter, Pastor Floyd Westbrook and Karen Westbrook Moderow ministering together.

2004 Christ Church of Westminster

MY REVIEW

Right away I read something that grabbed my attention. With thirty-nine books from the Old Testament many have not read it all the way through. I know I have had trouble reading it at times because of all the difficult names of people and things I didn’t quite understand. We see how sin was everywhere but we also see grace. I liked how the book is rich in scriptures, stories from the Bible that are detailed and easy to understand.

“In the beginning is where we first experience God and His power. He created the heaven and earth and made man in His image.” We walk with Adam and Eve as they encounter the enemy. They had everything they needed but temptation lead them astray. How easily the enemy can turn us away from God if we are not on guard.

“For most of us, the sin we commit against our brothers and sisters is not murder, but indifference.” Oh how we need to be more mindful of how we treat others. We can’t allow jealousy or greed to cause us to sin against each other.

I really loved this book and found it helpful to understand the different books better. The questions are nice to help us apply what we read and I came to appreciate the history of the different people as we discover the genealogy. Well written and many nuggets of wisdom make this book one everyone should grab a copy of.

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.