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NEWS: Liz Curtis Higgs Cover Story in Christian Retailing Magazine

July 11, 2013

 

Popular Bible study teacher, speaker and New York Times bestselling author Liz Curtis Higgs is featured this month on the cover of Christian Retailing Magazine. The article highlights how instrumental Christian bookstores have been in both Higgs’ personal spiritual growth and in her professional life. In the 30 years since Higgs became a follower of Christ, she has written 30 books with more than 4.5 million in print. She credits the ministry of Christian retailers in helping readers discover her work, including her signature title Bad Girls of the Bible, which re-releases this month.

“They became my go-to source. They filled my arms with books and I was so grateful,” Higgs says in regards to Christian bookstores after she came to know Christ in 1982. To show her appreciation Liz is doing a “Thank You Tour” [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: Clear Winter Nights by Trevin Wax

June 26, 2013

Searching for Real Faith – or No Faith at All

Searching for Real Faith – or No Faith at All

Click here to download chapter one of Clear Winter Nights.

What happens when a young Christian dealing with disillusionment and doubt spends a weekend with an elderly, retired pastor? They talk. And no subject is off limits. Clear Winter Nights is a stirring story about faith, forgiveness, and the distinctiveness of Christianity. Through a powerful narrative and engaging dialogue, Trevin Wax shows the relevance of unchanging truth in an ever-changing world.

Click here to download chapter one of Clear Winter Nights.

NEWS: The Gospel Coalition Reviews “Firsthand”

June 19, 2013

“What’s refreshing about Josh and Ryan’s approach is that they don’t herald doubt as an art form; instead, they encourage doubters to pursue the truth,” thegospelcoalition.org states in its review of Ryan and Josh Shook’s New York Times bestseller, Firsthand: Ditching Secondhand Religion for a Faith of Your Own.

Brothers Ryan (23) and Josh (22) Shook,  the oldest children of mega-church pastor Kerry Shook, have confronted their own experience with disillusionment with their faith and offer a clarion call to their generation to move beyond an inherited beliefs to a genuine faith of their own.

Click  here to read The Gospel Coalition’s full review.

Ryan, Josh & Kerry Shook on “Family Talk”

May 6, 2013

 Ryan and Josh Shook, authors of Firsthand: Ditching Secondhand Religion for a Faith of  Your Own, are guests along with their father Pastor Kerry Shook on “Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk” radio broadcast on Monday, May 6 and Tuesday, May 7.  The Shook family discusses the difficulty young adults are having as they tranisition to a personal faith and not that of their parents or others.  Ryan and Josh advise parents and peers to ask the hard questions and to go directly to God with their doubts.

To hear more, click here:  http://www.drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Archive

 

 

 

SNEAK PEEK: The Last Christian by David Gregory

May 4, 2010

What does this nation without God look like? A startling “what-if” look at the end of Christianity in America…

Download the first chapter of The Last Christian here.

A.D. 2088. Science is removing God from America—one person at a time. Can the faith of one woman bring restoration? In this futuristic thriller, one woman takes on  the seemingly-impossible task of re-introducing the Christian faith in  late twenty-first century, secular America—and rescuing the planet from spiritual oblivion. 

Download the first chapter of The Last Christian here.