Paul T.
Barham
Software engineer, lay evangelist and author. He writes Bible-centered books for adults and children, and now a novel about the day the Church disappears.
New novel · Releases November 11, 2026
The Bride Is Taken
An End-Times Thriller · Atomos, Book One
In the very near future, Fourth of July fireworks bloom over a weary nation, and in a single flash of light, millions of people vanish. Within days, a charismatic President tells a terrified world, “We are not alone.”
Josh Gibbons, an engineer who walked away from God, knows something the world does not: the satellites now guarding the sky are ones he designed himself.
Books
Every book quotes Scripture directly, most from the New American Standard Bible, so you can check it for yourself. Paperbacks and Kindle editions are on Amazon.
Christian living
Bible-centered books on salvation, love, shame and grace, written for readers who want to see it in Scripture for themselves.
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Salvation 101
A Guide to Faith, the Gospel, and Following Jesus
A Scripture-anchored starting point for anyone asking what it means to be saved.
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For the Love of God
By This All People Will Know That You Are My Disciples
A book built on the two greatest commandments, and on the love that marks a follower of Jesus.
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Moving On
The Journey Beyond Shame to Live in Righteousness
For anyone whose past mistakes still have a vote in who they get to be today.
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Eternal
Why Love Is Greater Than Faith and Hope
Faith gets us to the door. Hope holds the key. Love is what eternity is made of.
Study guides and devotional
Companions for small groups, Sunday school classes and a year of daily reading.
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Salvation 101
Small Group Study Guide
Discussion questions and lessons to take a group through the book.
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For the Love of God
Small Group Study Guide
A guided study of love as the mark of a disciple.
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For the Love of God
Daily Devotional
365 short readings in a 4 × 6 inch pocket edition.
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Moving On
Small Group Study Guide
Lessons for groups walking out of shame and into grace.
For children
The Tammy Lamb picture books: a curious little lamb learning about God, prayer and church.
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Tammy Lamb Looks for God
Tammy Lamb, Book 1
With a yellow telescope, a curious lamb sets out to find God.
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Tammy Lamb Learns to Pray
Tammy Lamb, Book 2
Tammy finally asks her father what he says when he kneels to pray.
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Tammy Lamb Goes to Church
Tammy Lamb, Book 3
It is Sunday morning, and Tammy Lamb cannot wait.
En español
Spanish editions, with Scripture from La Biblia de las Américas.
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Salvación 101
Guía para la Fe, el Evangelio y Seguir a Jesús
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Por el Amor de Dios
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Seguir Adelante
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Eterno
About Paul
Paul has spent his career building software, including years at Amazon, AWS and Microsoft, and he reads the Bible the way he reads a system log: carefully, line by line, following the evidence wherever it leads.
He writes about love because he has needed it to survive. His own story includes marriage separation, addiction and recovery, and years spent rebuilding what estrangement had broken, the kind of wreckage that teaches you which parts of love actually hold.
He is a bi-vocational lay evangelist who preaches in North Carolina, and he publishes his books, study guides and sermons through Doxa Theos Ministries. Raised Southern Baptist, he describes himself simply as a non-denominational, Bible-centered Christian. He believes the mark of a Christian isn’t correct doctrine alone. It’s love that survives contact with a broken life.
- Lives in
- Wake Forest, North Carolina
- Studied
- B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, North Carolina State University
- Works in
- Software engineering, after Amazon, AWS and Microsoft
- Publishes through
- Doxa Theos Ministries
Find more
- Salvation 101Book pages, study guides, and a plain explanation of the gospel
- The Bride Is TakenThe novel, the prophecy behind it, and reader questions
- The Atomos seriesBook One and the two books still to come
- Rapture 101What the Bible says about the rapture, the Tribulation and the Second Coming
- Sunday sermonsPaul’s preaching on YouTube
- Amazon author pageEvery book, study guide and devotional in one place