"This outstanding book has the POWER to shape fathers and mothers to be good shepherds and their children to become 'trees of righteousness.'
Get ready for a delightful tapestry of truth!”

Randy Thomasson
President of Campaign for
Children and Families

“A delightful, but deeply spiritual and thought-provoking account of promises from the olive tree. It offers insightful advice for raising children through imagery of this versatile tree. Even though
my children are now mature adults, I found it spiritually edifying and rich in visual images of ancient Israel.”

Dr. Anne Davis
Professor of Biblical Studies
Trinity Southwest University

“I wish I had read this book when my sons were growing up. This invaluable information would have made such a difference in my perspective."
 
Mary Beck
Chairperson of the Salvation
Army Advisory Board

"Much of what God wants us to know about being Christian parents can be learned by following Noreen on this
unique guided tour through
her olive garden.”
 
Pastor Ronald Kingham
Adjunct Professor
William Jessup University

Promises from the Olive Tree
A Book of Hope, Instruction and Encouragement for Parents

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Promises from the Olive Tree is a passionate plea for modern Christian parents to learn the simple, trustworthy, agricultural lessons of God’s chosen people in the ancient Promised Land of Israel, and to apply them to raising God-fearing children in our now complex and confused world. Noreen Jacks has shown, in a wonderfully insightful and inspiring way, how we must diligently and lovingly cultivate these 'young olive plants' whom God has blessed us with in order to raise up wise, mature trees which will have a godly and lasting influence on our nation and culture. 
-- Professor Paul Dilgard, American River College

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NOREEN JACKS ON THE SPLENDOR OF THE OLIVE TREE
The foundation of her book Promises from the Olive Tree

Olive trees have been a friend to man ever since the days of Adam. We know from the Bible that God placed the first man in the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it (Gen. 2:15). Do you suppose Adam knew crushed olives would make great olive oil? 

From the Master Gardener, Adam learned to appreciate the olive tree for the wonderful fruit and oil it offered freely. It was, indeed, a tree of great bounty and beauty, a precious gift from the Almighty. God even compared our children to olive plants in Psalm 128:3.

Your children will be as olive plants around your table!

Olive plants around my table? What was God contemplating when He made such a comparison? What do the children of the righteous have in common with olive plants? 

The Bible frequently employs analogies and parables to make spiritual truth understandable for the common man. Jesus was the master of parabolic teaching, always presenting profound truth in the most simplistic manner possible. The agrarian culture in which He lived provided the backdrop for much of His teaching–first the natural and then the spiritual (1 Cor. 15:46). 

Both Scripture and Jewish tradition use trees as a means of describing a righteous person. God referred to His chosen people as trees of righteousness: That they might be called trees of righteousness, the plantings of the Lord, that he might be glorified (Is. 61:3B).

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