Where listeners aspire to grow in their endeavors, you need Shelley to rally their hearts with her refreshing viewpoint from the world’s oldest gardening book. The Bible is abundant with inspiration and garden metaphor, sure to add depth of meaning and delight to any event. Speaking topics can be adapted as needed to venue, season, and program length.
My Father’s Garden
For gardeners, garden interest, & faith groups.
From her book, My Father is the Gardener, Shelley unearths inspiration in the routine ways of caring for plants and keeping a garden. She will showcase the gardener’s work—chores like preparing soil, watering, weeding, cultivating, and composting—to understand these practices as enriching garden metaphors full of God’s wisdom to help find purpose in daily life.
7 Gardens of the Bible from Eden to Revelation
For garden-loving audiences.
While it is commonly known that everything began in the Garden of Eden, Shelley will reveal gardens and landscapes throughout God’s Word to Revelation. This lively presentation is sure to dazzle and infuse Biblical truths with new wonder, leaving behind lasting garden metaphors to guide through all of life’s landscapes.
Herbs of the Bible for Your Garden
For gardeners, garden interest, & faith groups.
Welcome Shelley S. Cramm to speak to your gardening group on herbs of the Bible, revealing the intricacies of horticulture layered in the ancient Scriptures. Let Shelley show how home gardens can become a treasure of inspiration through herbs’ fragrant tastiness, creating eager anticipation for garden to table goodness and backyard encounters with the Lord. Inspired by her article in The Dallas Morning News, April 2017.
Digging into the Roots of the Biblical Feasts
For gardeners & faith groups wanting a deeper dig.
Enter into a time of refreshing as author and gardener Shelley S. Cramm reveals the roots of the Biblical Feasts. Though decreed in ancient times, the feasts offer a more intimate understanding of God’s Word and His plans for our return to Him. Listeners will learn how to connect harvests of the Holy Land to home gardens and dinner tables, growing faithfulness and meeting Jesus in the appointed celebrations—and His celebrations are filled with joy! Inspired by this Devotions Blog
Trees of Psalm 92 & What They Mean to You
For garden interest & faith groups.
The Date Palm and the Cedar of Lebanon tower over Psalm 92:12; learn more about the horticultural details and what they mean for growing, thriving, and standing tall in adversity. Shelley relates life lessons and reassurance in an engaging way.
What Can We See in the Almond Tree?
For gardeners, garden interest, & faith groups.
“Be always on the watch,” Jesus said, Luke 21:36; Shelley outlines the appearance of the almond tree in Scripture and how this lovely, flowering tree, first to bloom in the holy land, points to the heart of Jesus’ command and God’s plan. A timely speech for these end-of-time days.
The 7 Species: Much More Than a Plant List
For faith groups wanting a deeper dig.
Deuteronomy 8:8 names 7 plant species that would be plentiful for the Israelites in the land promised to them after wandering the Sinai Desert. Discover much more than a gardener’s list for the nursery here: God reveals a promise, a pattern, and His plan through this plant list, with vital information for the times we are facing. Inspired by this Devotions Blog
Jesus—The Seed, The Root, The Branch & Firstfruit
For gardeners & faith groups wanting a deeper dig.
The garden metaphor is enduringly powerful in understanding who Jesus is as our noble Lord. Shelley shows His poetic analogies to plant anatomy — not as goofy gardener’s sentiment but in truths communicated to us in God’s Word. Discover through structural elements of vegetation, Jesus
fully revealed; and explore the realities of “how evil appears to flourish,” Psalm 37:35 until the Lord’s reign fully unfolds. An especially poignant teaching for celebrating the birth or the resurrection of Christ.
Plant God’s Word in your Garden.
For gardeners & garden interest groups.
Shelley reveals the ingenious use of horticultural detail found in the Scriptures and shows listeners how they can grow these very same plants, connecting their garden plots to a source of age-old inspiration. One’s daily life and garden routine can become a rich planting of so much more. Audiences will leave believing their own gardens to be among God’s great garden stories. Vary the plants Shelley discusses for seasonal and regional change.
Inspiring your Garden Stories.
For garden & fiction writers.
God’s Word uses horticultural detail in brilliant ways to emphasize its truths and teaching moments. Shelley reveals inferences, puns and play on words in Bible stories. Writers will be inspired to layer meaning and metaphor in their own writing.
Why you Need to Read the Bible like a Gardener
For church & faith audiences.
Key concepts from keeping and tending a garden will help listeners to better understand and appreciate fundamental patterns of Scripture, in both Old and New Testaments. Shelley teaches audiences that thinking like a gardener gives them the power to put God’s Word into practice in their daily routines.
Behind the Scenery
For writers & audiences of all kinds.
Hear behind-the-scenes stories about the hilarious ways in which Shelley lived her first book as she wrote it. Shelley will testify to God’s perfect timing and personal touch throughout the 5 year journey of writing and assembling God’s Word for Gardeners Bible. A homegrown story with many surprises!
