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- Welcome to the Internet home of Ron and Barbara Johnson. We are here, Lord willing, to encourage our brethren in their walk before our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, especially in the matter of what the Apostle Paul copiously wrote about faith. We have lived and are living the 'walk of faith' throughout our married life and have been in the mountains of Wyoming for 34 years. I am 68 years and Barbara is 66. Read more about us on the 'Ron and Barbara' page. Faith-life is simple: too simple it seems for many Christians that need more. Yet, no matter where or how you live, Biblical faith is simple. Too many Christians have repeatedly tried to complicate it.- What is the concept of our phrase, 'Christian Wilderness Press', regarding our publishing name and Internet presence? It is based upon all that God was doing with and for His people during forty years in the wilderness. He was accomplishing many and marvelous things in every Israelite; for while He was punishing the first Exodus generation for their rebellion He was preparing the second Exodus generation for victorious battles and the receiving of inheritances.
The first generation rebelled and lost their opportunity with God in the victories to come. Even so, their children grew up observing God taking care of their parents' every need. The younger ones came to know Provision, but also the faith of their repentant parents toward the Provider, and thus they acquired a heart toward victory by the means of faith.
God was building a Remnant with which to accomplish His purpose regarding the Abrahamic Covenant in the land of Canaan. By the time Remnant Israel crossed over the Jordan River into Canaan all dross had been removed...even the reproach or stench of Egypt (Joshua 5:9,10).
Every true Christian has the faith of heaven of which Paul spoke, but too few of us have become familiar with it. Ah, but if you are one of the few, surely you have become fed up with so much of the nonsense taught about faith. God has responded to your faith often enough that you have confidence in it, but also you have tried many of the false claims enough to know them to be false...and God is still with you...and of course He is your Solution.
But perhaps clearer thinking about Biblical faith will also help you, and it is this to which I aspire in my studies and writings. The times wherein we live are growing less and less stable. God's people, at least a Remnant, need stability by the stability of Restful Faith, as in Hebrews 4, so that you and I can 'stand in the evil day'.
My book 'God's Rock' is about the life of Moses and the Exodus Epoch, and Biblical faith is throughout. See a map that is included in the book's Appendix IX which shows that the correct Red Sea crossing was through the Gulf of Suez and not through the Gulf of Aqaba as lately advertised. Appendix VII has all of the passages and other ancient references (along with calculations of Israel's day and night marchs and the locations of their three encampments) for a total calculation of the route to the sea.
- Another map in Appendix IX shows the likely route from the Gulf of Suez to the Wilderness of Sinai in the southern half of the Sinai Peninsula, and there are two ancient maps which give credence to the calculations of the route. Moreover, there is a topographical map of the southern half of the Sinai Peninsula to help the reader to envision Israel's circumstance in their ten month encampment there where the tabernacle was built.
- Everything here is offered at no cost to you, as in Ecclesiastes 11:1 ‘Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days’ (KJV). Take an excursion through our site. Let us know what you think (our email address is below). In visiting, if you wish to help us then you can do it by remembering us to the Lord in your prayers, remembering us to your family and friends, and remembering to return enough times to become part of what we (and, we trust, the Lord) are doing.- We are entering exciting times. Now more than ever we are being forced to rely upon God by means of 'Biblical faith'...or to rely upon man (governments, etc.) by 'common human faith'. You can read much more about this in my book 'God's Hook'. All of this book is about Biblical faith, the great majority of its chapters being stories of Bible characters in their faith-experiences with God.
Biblical faith is the essential theme in this website. Every true believer in the God of the Bible and in His son, Christ Jesus, has this faith in him, because it has been placed there by God for God's own purpose in the believer. The faith of heaven, if it is allowed to do its work, will cause the believer 'to believe' God and 'to believe' what God says. Without Biblical faith a person can only intellectually believe about God and about what God has said.
- This faith-website is growing and the brothers and sisters who find us are invited to the work of encouragement. Offered are two of my books, some brief Bible studies, books for children, missionary pages with photos and videos, and other miscellaneous things like photos of the Wyoming Rocky Mountain wilderness region where we live a rather simple lifestyle; these photos are primarily in the 'Photos' pages.
- As Barbara and I share about us and our walk in faith, you are welcome to share about your walk. Barbara offers some of her mother's writings for children in her 'Animal Tales' (illustrated by Barbara) and her 'Bible Ballads'. Read also 'Stories of Old' by her mother (deceased); these are brief but interesting sketches of early to mid American life. See all these on the 'Other Books' page.
- Along with our essential theme of Biblical faith is our love and concern for missionaries who have basically taken it on themselves to begin a mission. Go to the 'Mission of Hope' page to read of such an effort to the Island of Mindoro, Philippines. On that page you can read of the work and view five videos. On other pages you can read and view pictures of brief missionary trips to the Amazon, Romania, and Guatemala. See these on the 'Missionary Trips' page. Christians are invited into these ministries and perhaps can go into the field as well. Manifest in these (and hopefully others to be added) is the kind of faith of which we share with you.
- Feel free to copy any photos. Just right-click on the photo and then use "save image as"; this will give you the photo in its small version as seen on the page. However, for most photos on this site (except in the header of the 'Ron and Barbara' page), if you left-click on the photo you will see the larger version of the picture, which then you can "save image as". Most of the larger ones are good enough for poster quality. We hope to have many more from our Rocky Mountain region. In the headers of our pages and on the 'Photos' pages and on the 'Missionary Trips' pages you will find many photos.
- On the 'Ministry Links' page you will find links to websites that we consider worthy of a visit from you.
- I am busy in my own Bible studies, but also in studying the new things for this website. It is continually being built and soon I must turn my attention to gaining significant traffic to it so that the Lord may direct people to us. Over the several months (we went on line 4-25-08) of our website the traffic has been low, but a high percentage of the searchers that have found us have bookmarked the site along with many of its pages. We hope you will also.
We are not selling books. As the Lord works here, we are encouraging our brethren.
- I have studied scripture for many years and the books presented here are sharings of some of my lengthy studies. On the 'Bible Studies' page are brief studies that I share with you who are interested. You can email us at -
ron-barbara@christianwildernesspress.net or if that does not work at cronjohnson88@yahoo.com .
- May the God of the Bible bless you as only He can, and as He sees fit to do.
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