The Laymans Institute

09/11/2026

Newest release:
"A Layman's Look at the Epistles of John and Jude"

05/02/2026

New Release:
"A Layman's Look at the Gospel of John"

This is a volume of 75 sermons from the Gospel of John. All were originally written and delivered by C. O. Bishop, to a live audience at True Hope Christian Fellowship, in Forest Grove, Oregon. The sermons are mostly in order of where they appear in scripture, and/or when they were delivered in c...

10/03/2025

Since I do not tend to like audiobooks, it really had not occurred to me that some people actually need them: As a result, I had never seriously considered applying the kindle audio-book function to my books.
However, a friend asked about them because her mother, a long-time follower of Jesus, is no longer able to read for any length of time. She asked whether my Bible-teaching books were available as Kindle audiobooks. Two already were, but because she asked, I went back and republished all of them as audiobooks.
That was last night: This morning, I received word from Amazon that all twelve of them are now “live,” if people want them that way.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/C.%20O.%20Bishop/author/B0BB6Q6XTQ/allbooks?ccs_id=25c9c61a-eb43-4c54-a52b-2eb4a166fc7f

07/03/2025

I am grateful to have finally discovered what was wrong with this page. I had included the apostrophe (Layman’s) in the username, which, it turns out, is not permitted. (Sigh…)

Now if I could only figure out how to attach the link to my personal page, as my other pages are.…

07/01/2025

It took me the last year or so to figure out that I had included the apostrophe (The Layman's Institute) and that invalidated the page name. (How frustrating.)
Then it took me days of searching to find out how to change the name, removing the apostrophe. All is well.

06/26/2025

A couple of new books are now available: "The Work of the Shepherd" and "Disciples and Discipleship."

All of these are either teaching books, or books demonstrating a building process. All of them are very practical, useable, and applicable to the reader's life.