Doug Kroeker has spent most of his adult life teaching the Bible. His new book, A Walkthrough of the Bible, released by Writers of the West on July 4, 2026, is the result of a teacher finally explaining the entire text at once rather than one passage at a time. The 222-page volume runs from Genesis to Revelation across eight chapters, treating the sixty-six books not as isolated islands but as a single, cohesive story.
Kroeker opens with structure: how the library holds together, who wrote it—more than forty authors across roughly fifteen centuries—and why the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament arrange the same material differently. He then moves through the great eras of biblical history: Creation, the Patriarchs, the Exodus, the Conquest, the Kingdom, the Exile, and the return. The book explains why the prophets said what they said and to whom, shows how the four Gospels complement each other rather than compete, and unpacks Paul's letters as pastoral responses to real, specific churches. Doctrine receives the same treatment, with sin, salvation, and the church's ongoing mission handled as one continuous arc rather than standalone topics.
The need for such a resource is clear. Many people who grew up around church know a favorite psalm, a favorite parable, or a handful of memorized verses, but fewer could explain how Ruth connects to David, or why Revelation ends in a garden the same way Genesis started. Kroeker wrote this book for that gap, whether the reader has never opened a Bible or has been reading one for forty years.
“I wrote this book because I came to realize that understanding the Bible is not always as easy as those of us who grew up in the church might assume,” Kroeker said. “Bible stories have been part of our lives for as long as we can remember. We learned about Noah and the ark, Abraham and Isaac, David and Goliath and so on when we were children. Over the years, those stories became familiar to us, and that familiarity gave us a foundation but not everyone has that foundation. Not everyone has grown up in church. They were never taught the stories that we take for granted. When they hear a reference to the Exodus or Promised Land, they may have little idea where those events belong in the Bible or why they even matter. I wanted to write something that would help those who are new to the Bible and as an overview to those who are familiar with it.”
Early praise suggests the book achieves its goal. Sarah Davis, lead editor, called it “a map worth following to the end,” noting that Kroeker “takes a library of sixty-six books, forty-some authors, and fifteen centuries and does something few writers attempt and fewer pull off: he shows it's actually one story, with one grammar underneath it.” Chad Malvo, production manager at Writers of the West, described it as “not a summary; a summit view,” adding that Kroeker “treats doctrine as living structure rather than a dry appendix” and is “honest about the hard questions along the way instead of smoothing them over.”
The book is available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover formats. Readers can get the book on Amazon. More information about the publisher is available at writersofthewest.net.
For those who have struggled to read the Bible cover to cover or who want to understand how its parts fit together, A Walkthrough of the Bible offers a comprehensive guide. It matters because it addresses a common gap in biblical literacy, providing a framework that can deepen understanding for individuals and communities alike. By presenting the Bible as one story, Kroeker aims to make its message accessible to a new generation of readers while enriching the experience of longtime students.
