“Nine Lessons and Carols,” “The Gospel According to Saint Luke,” “The Gospel According to Saint Mark,” and “Four Prayers for All God’s Children This Christmas”

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

I will have four books out by next week:

Nine Lessons and Carols by James Pepper

Nine Lessons and Carols by James Pepper

“Nine Lessons and Carols” by James Pepper

This is the Christmas Service sung by the boys choir at Kings College Cambridge every year and aired on the BBC and wrote the Christmas service and included 14 Christmas Carols so when you go caroling you can have them right there on your device and read the lyrics directly. It is an ebook.  The Carols include Silent Night, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, On Christmas Night, and Joy to the World!
http://amzn.com/B006GIQFNQ

The Gospel According to Saint Luke; from the Pepper Bible, an Illuminated Manuscript

The Gospel According to Saint Luke; from the Pepper Bible, an Illuminated Manuscript

“The Gospel According to Saint Luke: from The Pepper Bible, A Modern Illuminated Manuscript“

is out now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble.com and also on the ibooks for the iPad.  A handwritten illuminated manuscript with 25 full page illuminations and 440 illustrated verse initials all written by hand. http://amzn.com/B004EPZ390

The Gospel According to Saint Mark: from The Pepper Bible, A Modern Illuminated Manuscript

is coming out next week on Amazon, Barnes and Noble.com and on iBooks as an ebook.

E-books can be given as gifts on Amazon and they can be downloaded onto many different types of computers and devices, all of the information on that is on the pages where you buy the books.

Four Prayers for All God’s Children This Christmas

I wrote the handwritten text of the prayers and the commentary is by Bill Lawrence, the Dean of the Perkins School of Theology and by Mark Stamm, a professor of theology at the Perkins School of Theology. The book is being published by Terry Jones!  It is a paperback book.  http://amzn.com/1467912697

The prayers are:
The Lord’s Prayer (ecumenical version that we do on Sunday mornings), The Prayer of Saint Francis (which is in our hymnal), The Serenity Prayer (The complete longer version) and the Prayer of the Holy Spirit. This book is being used to raise money for Childrens Medical Needs.

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Nine Lessons and Carols; a handmade manuscript for worship; hand-scribed and illustrated by James Pepper is on Amazon.com

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Nine Lessons and Carols; a handmade manuscript for worship; hand-scribed and illustrated by James Pepper is published on Amazon at this link:  http://amzn.com/B006GIQFNQ

It is a book of 14 Christmas Carols which you can read on your Kindle and we will also be placing it on the Nook and on ibooks for the iPad!

The Nine Lessons are the story of the birth of Jesus as told in the Christmas Service t at Kings College Cambridge and is sung by the boys choir every Christmas on the BBC.  My edition contains 14 Christmas Carols including Silent Night, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Holy Night and many other favorites!  All of this is decorated and handwritten with drawings for this book and drawings from my handwritten illuminated manuscript the Pepper Bible.  The title page is the Chi Rho page from the Gospels.

And because it is an ebook you can take it with you when you go caroling with the Christmas Carols right at your fingertips.  You can give this as a gift on Amazon.com.

"Nine Lessons and Carols" by James Pepper a handwritten book of Christmas Carols

"Nine Lessons and Carols" by James Pepper a handwritten book of Christmas Carols on Amazon

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Christmas Cards

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

We have Christmas Cards of pages handwritten and illustrated including “Silent Night,” “The Fruits of the Spirit,” The Lord’s Prayer and “For Unto Us a Child is Born” at http://www.etsy.com/shop/pepperbible

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Luke is on Amazon.com for the PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and the Kindle

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

Luke is available on Amazon at this link. 

The Gospel According to Saint Luke: from The Pepper Bible, A Modern Illuminated Manuscript

http://amzn.com/B004EPZ390You can give this to another person, Amazon has a feature where you can give ebooks to other people.

The Gospel According to Saint Luke

ebook, in English, is available for purchase on Amazon.com as a Kindle Book which can be read in full color on the PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and also in black and white on the Kindle.

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Now available at Barnes & Noble on the Nook, PC, iPad, Android, iPhone

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

The Gospel of Saint Luke by James G. Pepper

The Gospel According to Saint Luke ebook, in English, is available for purchase on NOOK at the Barnes and Noble website here! More languages and books to follow.  It is available on the PC, iPhone, iPad, Android, and the Nook.

To read on the PC you go to this page and click on “Free Nook Apps” which is a link in green on the right side of the page and then you select Nook for PC at the bottom of the page.

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The Gospel of Saint Luke is published on the iPad

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

The Gospel According to Saint Luke ebook, in English, is available for purchase on iPad via the iBooks application! More languages and books to follow.For those who are not on iPad, we will be selling these very beautiful ebooks (which can be viewed in full color on any computer with Adobe Digital Solutions or Calibre)… via a partner website very soon!

ISBN is 9780983029007. Author (of course) is James Pepper!

I am working on translations in separate edtions in French, German, Spanish and Portuguese where you will be able to search the handwritten English content in these languages.

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The Pepper Gospels

Posted on May 23, 2010 by

I have made – by hand – an illuminated manuscript of the Gospels, a separate and complete New Testament and several books of the Old Testament.  I did not use computers, I did it the hard way, as it has been done for centuries.

This is a 5 minute video by “American Bible Society Presents:”

For this work I have blessings from Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of York.

“It is given to very few to undertake, or even contemplate, a labour of such Herculean proportions. It is given to fewer still to complete it. What you have done represents an achievement which, so far as His Grace is aware, is quite without parallel in modern times.” “It is a powerful witness to the living God.”  Archbishop of York Sentamu Ebor


“His Holiness prays that your work will help you to discover each day in the inspired writings of the Old and New Testaments “a support for faith, food for the soul and a pure and lasting fount of spiritual life” “He invokes upon you joy and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ.” March 26, 2002, Vatican

The following are links to videos and newspaper articles on my work.

CBS Video

Illustrating the Bible - United Methodist News Service

Producing Bible by hand is labor of love for Dallas man – United Methodist News Service

On and Overgrown Path

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We have published the Gospel of Luke!

Posted on September 16, 2010 by

We have published an ePub version of The Gospel According to Saint Luke, excerpted from the Pepper Bible and optimised for iPad viewing. Once we have received a link to the online store, we will publish it here.

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The St. John’s Gospel Fragment, the earliest known fragment of the New Testament

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

The John Rylands University Library at Manchester has a fragment of the Gospel of St. John, dating to the first half of the second century AD. On this small scrap of papyrus, written in Greek and found in Egypt, is Chapter 18 verses 37 and 38:

37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

Click thru the link here to read about this fascinating piece of history, and to see images of this almost 2000 year old manuscript!

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