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Christmas 2015, in a southwestern town in Red Gleans, Missouri, seems pretty grim for Joshua Carpenter. After his pregnant wife, Mary, is involved in a terrifying car accident, Joshua is once again faced with adversity after suffering the loss of his sister, Amari, who died several years ago.
With the help of an old friend, Mr. Rogers returns revealing information about Joshua's past, creating a special bond between the two. Working together, Joshua...
2) Hawaii Pearl
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"Look, Lonnie, you're not in a position to demand more money from me. I've paid you plenty."
Slurring his words, Lonnie whines, "Come on. Since I got kicked out of the Navy, I can't seem to get any work. You have plenty of dough. 'Sides, you want me ta keep your secrets, don't ya?"
"You're pathetic." Stumbling in the surf, Drugar grabs Lonnie's arm and jabs bills into his pocket. He shoves Lonnie further out of his way. "Don't ever contact me again....
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Chloe Parker dutifully fills her role as the daughter of an absentee father who demands her loyalty to his ranch nestled high in the Rockies. Even with an immense love for the mountains, Chloe knows she doesn't belong.
When an opportunity comes for her to meet family in the deep South for the first time, she decides she has to go.
Drawn into a forty-year cold case of a dead grandfather she never met, Chloe comes to the aid of her frail grandmother...
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After adjusting to the murder of a dear friend, Kevin and Maggie Knapp are enjoying their married life and careers in the mid-1970s while raising their toddler son, Sammy. When the cherished daughter of a close neighbor goes missing during summer vacation, the Knapps again find themselves in the middle of an investigation that tests their faith and leads to new adventures.
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I have had the pleasure of living my entire life in a family of Christians. My children had many nonbelieving friends while growing up. As they individually reached out to their circle of friends, some saw the light and became believers, but not all accepted Jesus as their Savior. Others would tell one of my four children that they became Christians after watching how he or she had grown into adulthood committed to follow Christ. As a family, we would...
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2 Kings 6: 16-17
For most people, what they know of reality is what can be seen through the physical eye, but for few, reality is the unseen.
Five years has passed since Pastor Frank Denney been dubbed a hero in the city of Chicago. Now with keys to the city, a prominent position as adviser to the mayor, and the most popular pastor around, Frank seems to have it all.
But as good as Frank's life is, soon he is plagued by a series of unexplained events...
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Follow the life of a young man through the loss of his father, his formative years guided by a Godly mentor, and on through the many relationships which developed as he began a ministry to the indigenous people of Southwest Alaska.
Cliff and those about him encounter life at its best and worst as they live life surrounded by the world, its trials and, yes, its blessings.
During the course of Parts of the Whole, there is no attempt made to sanitize...
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Three for Him is about God above the courts! A mother sees God's mini miracles and answered prayers as she does what she has to do to protect her little girls.
The story inspires women and girls to know there is light at the end of the tunnel in such tough circumstances. Sometimes we go to court like Moses Going again and again to the pharaoh saying "Let my children go." Sometimes we are like Job praying for our enemies knowing God is above all losses...
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My Brother's Keeper is a Christian mystery novel about a young man who has spent the last twelve years in prison for a crime he did not commit. His brother was the one that committed the crime, but there is no way he would allow his Down syndrome brother to go to a prison or any other place that would keep him confined. His brother would never have been able to understand what he was doing there, plus having other physical problems, his brother would...
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Mathew Kemp, a model citizen of the new world, turned against organized religion. Following the Elite Society Watchers' plan to erase all things religious, he embarks on a quest to find those that do not conform to the new world order. Working for the Harding News, the country's largest news agency, gives him the chance to become a roamer reporter, getting close to those that do not conform.
In a world where computer chips are put in the right hand...
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For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
--Psalms 91:11
Davey Gibson has grown into a strong young Christian man at twenty-four years old and has dedicated his life to flying a bush plane into the South Pacific islands supporting the missionaries in their ministries to the natives. Grampa Hal goes home to heaven, and Davey's mother suffers a near-death experience, changing all their lives for the days...
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Those who knew him figured Jimmy Newton would never amount to much. In the first place, he was a mistake. His mother, Judy, got pregnant while a junior in high school. Few girls are ready for motherhood at that age, and she certainly wasn't. His father showed his interest by abandoning her before his birth. Fortunately, Judy's parents helped her through the ordeal. Grateful, but feeling the need for freedom, Judy moved when she could and took Jimmy...
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Long before man came to live on Marley Knott's Mountain, it was, foretold by a mountain circuit rider who came and held a tent revival around the foothills of that mountain that God would use that mountain to bring forth a multitude of souls to the Lord. People had come far-and-wide to the revival, and witnessed the power of God to heal and deliver their friends. Everyone but a few scoffers received salvation. How can this prophecy be true? No one...
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Fifteen years have passed since Terry and Nick have graduated from high school, and during that time, a lot
has happened. Terry has gone to Vietnam as a medic, and Nick has been to Costa Rica as a Peace Corps
Volunteer.
When Terry returns to St. Louis to join his wife, Jenny, and his one-year old son, he pursues his commitment
to God by becoming a minister in a local Lutheran church and dedicates his life to serving Christ. Nick too returns
to St....
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Just like Ed, we've all encountered them--the unusual over- or underexpectation surprises, the un-norms. A person or place or thing that isn't quite as advertised. They happen sometimes. From time to time. Usually spread out over time. Time. One time we might find a place that isn't the sleepy little backwater, East Tree-Stump town, where nothing happens. Another time we might meet a person who isn't the average nobody. There might be a love story...
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Jay Sampson is the best young detective in the Armor, Ohio Police Department. As a small-town detective, he is called upon to investigate all kinds of crime, from robbery to cyber theft from a local bank's computer system. Jay loved his job, his wife, Tiffany, and his four-year-old daughter, Olivia, yet his life was missing something. Was it because of his difficult childhood where his father had abandoned him, and his mother had invited man after...
17) One Man's Pain
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Excop Tom Brado thought his life was over. His wife and three children are gone, killed by a criminal he could never catch. Once a big-city detective and devout Catholic, Tom has exiled himself away in the small town of Rocky Hills. Here he can forget his past, forget faith, and forget God, or so he thinks. For five years, life goes on like this, but it all changes one day when a priest knocks on Tom's door. He's rebuilding an old church in town and...
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Six total strangers with dark pasts are all summoned on the same night to the same location--an old, mysterious mansion. Guided by the need to seek answers for their pasts, they blindly agree. But they quickly discover they aren't alone in the seemingly abandoned manor. An ancient evil has trapped them inside. With no way of escape and no way of communicating with the outside world, the strangers are at the mercy of the evil that haunts them with...
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Sunny is bewildered by her husband, Don. She's always believed she loves him, but his behavior has become increasingly difficult to live with as he is moody and his temper flares for no reason. Don is so mercurial that Sunny wonders, who he really is. Why is he so two-faced? Just like the mythological two-faced Janus.
Don has never liked many of Sunny's friends, especially her best friend, Daisy. Then Daisy disappears under mysterious circumstances....
20) Stepping Out
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This story is about Jeffery Bloom, a self-made multimillionaire. He steps out of his everyday life of drug making and distributing (He was a pharmacist in the USA), buying a castle in the English countryside. The castle was purchased sight unseen by Mr. Bloom's agent. Jeffery finds himself at the front door at ten at night, knocking on a solid, hard, wooden door with his bare knuckles. With dim light presented by the moon, he failed to see the chime's...
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