Parables of the Deer

Nature can be wonderful to look at, but there is more to see than just pretty sights. God has provided us opportunities to see more of His nature in the world around us. Carl Schmuland uses his pictures of deer to illustrate points of the Christian life in Parables of the Deer. You cannot live […]

The Pilgrim

An empress who lost her title when her husband divorced her is sent on a mission by God to go to Jerusalem. She faces opposition from those who want Christianity crushed, but she gets help from others who have been cast out of society. Davis Bunn tells her story in The Pilgrim. Throughout the book, […]

Trial Run

Two teams with a similar process but widely different goals are seeing if they can push the boundaries of the human mind. A graduate student learns of breakthroughs in quantum physics, and all three groups’ futures come together. Thomas Locke’s Trial Run tells the story of what happens and how one thing can be used […]

Jesus Was an Airborne Ranger

Jesus came to fulfill a mission, one that only He could carry out. In the course of that mission, He had to endure intense physical punishment and mental anguish. He also called others to follow in His footsteps and to spread the news of what He did. We may think of Jesus as an easy-going […]

Created for More

Many devotionals are hard for people to connect to their daily lives. It isn’t that the devotions are bad, it is just that people are different. Jonathan Malm decided to write a devotional for the creative side, still theologically correct, but made to encourage the creativity given by God. Created for More is meant to […]

After Acts

Though the Bible includes a wealth of information, there are things that we’d like to know more about. Since we live nearly 2,000 years after the last events recorded in scripture, we don’t have access to the same first hand information available then. What happened to the apostles? What did they do after their last […]

Small and in Charge

Have you ever stopped to think about how things would be if you got everything you wanted? Imagine that people came to you before they made a decision to find out what you think. You’re watching TV and this person from Ontario calls and asks whether he should take a job at a factory in […]

A Time to Die

How would you live if you knew the exact time you would die? In Parvin Blackwater’s world, that is reality; people have clocks that count down their lives. However, Parvin was one of a set of triplets and, with only two clocks issued to parents, she and her brother have been illegally sharing a clock. […]

Look at That

I don’t know about you, but I’m glad God looks at the heart and not the outside like we do (1 Samuel 16:1-13, specifically verse 7). He was talking to Samuel about the new king, but it still applies to us. For example, would you hire me to do something when I look like this? […]

Centralia

Peter Ryan awakes one morning looking for his family, but they are no longer around. His friends tell him his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident, but he cannot remember it. His memories are all mixed up, and things don’t make any sense. To top it off, armed men come after him. […]