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Fresh Expressions is a canary in the coal mine, alerting congregations to reevaluate what the Church is, where and when it can happen, and who can lead it. Church as we know it is inaccessible to most people. A fundamental premise of the movement is that Church can become accessible again by emerging in every nook and cranny where life already happens. Fresh Expressions is based in simplification, returning to basic scriptural principles, and a recovery of a "priesthood of all believers" - in the three places where people live and relate to others.

Travel back to 2006 and the penultimate moment of Buck Reilly's former success when he discovers the crypt of the Mayan Serpent King and royal treasury in Guatemala, then marries top supermodel Heather Drake, and bask in his 15 minutes of fame - before it suddenly blows apart. By 2008, with the world economy on the brink of collapse, Buck and Jack Dodson's company is already under siege due to fraud, backstabbing, and greed that turn their friends and family alike into adversaries.

Neither "everything's fine" nor "burn it all down", Stringer offers a thoughtful appreciation of evangelicalism's history, identity, and strengths, but also lament for its blind spots, toxic brokenness, and complicity with injustice. From this complicated space, we can move forward with informed vision rather than resignation and with hope for our future together.

Marriage between sinners has its inevitable messes. If you’ve been married longer than a week or two, you know how the hard realities of life in a fallen age can come crashing in. Perhaps you had a season of “once upon a time,” but soon enough you realized that this marriage, in this world, is not yet your “happily ever after.”

Buck Reilly's in Jamaica and back in the treasure hunting business - until some old enemies ace him out. Fortunately for Buck, a beautiful University professor with ancient Maroon secrets about the missing riches of captain Henry Morgan lures him back to the chase. Thrust into turbulent waters where trust is as elusive as the treasure itself, Buck's knocked further off course with the appearance of the once love-of-his-life.

After This is an encouraging compass that points us to all that is waiting for us in the next season of our lives. It is a prophetic word revealing that this coming shift is a transition into a time of peace, multiplication, comfort, and strength. After the misery, after the mess, after the divorce, after the breakup, after the bankruptcy, after the failure - even after COVID-19 - there is an “after this” coming that will change everything for those who belong to God.

Search for monsters long enough and you might become one. Thirty years ago, Jacob Vance and Raymond Turner committed a gruesome crime that shocked a small West Virginia town. Only nine years old themselves, they kidnapped and murdered four-year-old Josh Baker. The two boys were quickly arrested, tried, and convicted, but were released after serving only eight years in a juvenile detention facility. Because of the heinousness of their crime and the town's thirst for retribution, the government gave Vance and Turner new identities and relocated them to parts unknown.

Hired by billionaire Lou Atlas to search for answers about his dead nephew on St. Barths, the swankiest island in the Caribbean, Buck Reilly's dream trip goes sideways when his former business partner, fresh out of jail, returns with a vengeance. Buck is quickly eyeballs deep in complications - a race for hidden gold, the beautiful granddaughter of one of St. Barths' most famous swashbucklers, perversely ruthless treasure hunters, an alluring maritime historian, and demons from his past.

By surveying prominent theological errors, cults, and world religions, this book can equip you to defend your faith against the dangers of false teaching. It can also help you more effectively respond to your friends, family, and neighbors with the hope you have in Christ.

Could it be that mistaken beliefs about evangelism lead to a decrease in getting it done? Ten Modern Evangelism Myths recounts the most popular misconceptions about evangelism followed by an easy-to-understand response. Every Christian who wants to share their faith will find encouragement here to be bolder and more direct in their approach - while still showing love to those in their predicament of unbelief. You'll be more effective because you will be clearer about Christianity and more clearly yourself when talking about it.

Paid trip to the Caribbean sound good? Buck Reilly thinks so - flying rock stars and celebrities to a remote island for a charity concert seems a breeze - until all hell breaks loose when the promoter disappears and one of the A-list stars is kidnapped. The charity's vision to revolutionize women's Choice collides with a collection of threats that sends Buck on a wild race through the Virgin Islands fighting forbidden lust and multiple crazed killers determined to derail the event.

When an apparent eco-terrorist threatens to decimate the largest oil producer in the western hemisphere, tensions rise, hundreds of human lives are on the line, and fortunes lay in the balance. Chase and his covert ops team must pull off one of the most daring hostage rescue operations ever attempted, and it has to be done without making the evening news.

Would you risk your life to save a family member even if you knew they had committed a serious crime? What do a daring prison escape and a shocking lynching have in common? Only the inimitable John Jordan can figure it out! John Jordan searches for an escaped prisoner, investigates a shocking murder, and confronts a sadist forcing his victims to violate themselves - but as he closes in on the criminal, a harrowing river rescue may take more than the depleted detective has left to give.

Demon lights, granted wishes, strange things, and brutal love at the Lucky Lounge Motel. A haunted sister, desperate parents, a little human touch, and the end of the world. These are the stories whispered among dead leaves, the script etched bare for all to see. Welcome to Glenn Rolfe’s Land of Bones, 14 tales of the strange and macabre.

Buck Reilly went to hell and back in Red Right Return, book one one of the eight-book series. In Green to Go, book number two, it's a one-way trip. Good news turns bad fast, and the bad just keeps coming in this thrilling new Buck Reilly adventure. The unexpected contents of his parent's Swiss bank account offer Buck a chance to dig himself out of the hole he's been in since the recession hit, but first he must recover the treasure maps and clues he lost at sea.

Detective John Jordan thought he had put murder investigation behind him for good — his own good. Leaving Atlanta, he returns to Florida in search of the serenity that has so long eluded him. Until he witnesses the shocking and bizarre death of an inmate in state prison custody and is asked to find a missing mom by her young children. John realizes he can't run from his true calling any longer.

Millions of people profess to being religious. And a large percentage of those people profess to be Christian. With so many people claiming to belong to a Christian religious order, why are so many people living defeated, empty lives? The primary reason religions fail is because they have no power. Religious doctrine is based upon man’s effort. It is mankind asserting our will and desires upon the standards set by God.

When American covert operative Chase Fulton embarks on the most dangerous mission of his life - to rescue a team of wounded, abandoned commandos in the mountains of Afghanistan - a new enemy shows his face. This time, the enemy is closer and more sinister than ever before. Just when Chase believes he’s mostly alone, surprising allies and long-forgotten family ties arise and change everything he believes about his world.

In an exhaustive hunt for the truth behind a rash of unexplained deaths in a small town, including that of his own father, what Will Pollitt begins to uncover threatens everything - and puts his own life in the cross hairs. Are his father’s lies what killed him? What else will he stir up in the murky depths of a life he thought he knew?

Nearing completion of the original draft for The Quotient (aka QTNT), Rick Gillis had an epiphany. For months he had been using the generally accepted phrase "Equal Pay for Equal Work" when writing about pay disparity. Then it struck him that based on everything he had written over the previous year; this was not correct. It was then he determined that for The Quotient to be more accurate, that statement should read: "The Proper Pay for the Best Work".