In the Presence of the Poor by Kay Marshall Strom

Why Does God Make so Many People Poor? The question of one man and his profound answer! Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX—There is no shortage of books about Western missionary heroes.  But in the developing world, just as in the West, the most effective way to reach the lost is through the local church.  As one Indian...

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Review: The Love Revolution by Joyce Meyer

Review by Jill Hart Joyce Meyer’s latest non-fiction release is a call to Christians to stand up and ACT. Meyer wants to wake us up to the injustice and suffering going on around the world. She calls us to to a part of what she calls the “Love Revolution” whose creed is this: I take...

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A Cousin’s Prayer by Wanda E. Brunstetter

THE FIRST CHAPTER: Prologue Katie Miller’s stomach churned as she read the letter she’d just received from her cousin Loraine: Dear Katie, Wayne and I will be getting married the last Thursday of April. I’d like you to be one of my attendants. Katie’s heart pounded. There was no way she could go to her...

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No Idea by Greg Garrett

No Idea, by Greg Garrett from David C. Cook on Vimeo. AND NOW…THE FIRST CHAPTER: No Idea At the Ranch It’s sometimes a challenge to know where to start a story. My fiction-writing students are always asking me where to begin, and I usually tell them, “As late as possible. Right when things start to...

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The Great Christmas Bowl by Susan May Warren

Susan May Warren and the book: The Great Christmas Bowl Tyndale House Publishers (August 17, 2009) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Susan May Warren is the award-winning author of seventeen novels and novellas with Tyndale, Steeple Hill and Barbour Publishing. Her first book, Happily Ever After won the American Fiction Christian Writers Book of the Year in...

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AND NOW…THE FIRST CHAPTER: Abide With Me A Photographic Journey Through Great British Hymns Text by John H. Parker Photography by Paul Seawright Prologue The focus of Abide with Me is place—the places in England and Wales where the great Britishhymns were written and where the stories of the men and women who wrote them...

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Forever Richard by Sue Dent

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sue Dent hails from Mississippi. She graduated from Mississippi College in 1983. Since graduating she’s sold computers, taught computer classes and has worked as a Technical Specialist IV for the Mississippi Department of Natural Resources. Forever Richard is the second book in the Thirsting for Blood series. The prequel, Never Ceese was...

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Read the First Chapter of Look to the East by Maureen Lang

Maureen Lang and the book: Look to the East (The Great War) Tyndale House Publishers (August 4, 2009) READ THE FIRST CHAPTER: Briecourt, Northern France Julitte Toussaint sucked in her breath and shut her eyes, as if by closing off her own vision she, too, might become invisible. Stuck high above the ground where someone...

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The Pravda Messenger by Robert Cornuke with Alton Gansky

Robert Cornuke with Alton Gansky and the book: The Pravda Messenger Howard Books (September 1, 2009) ABOUT THE AUTHORs: ROBERT CORNUKE The president of the Bible Archeological Search and Exploration Institute, Robert Cornuke is an internationally known author and speaker. He has lectured on Bible history around the world more than a thousand times and...

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Honor in the Dust by Gilbert Morris

Gilbert Morris and the book: Honor in the Dust Howard Books (August 25, 2009) READ THE FIRST CHAPTER: May 1497 Sussex County, England- Claiborn Winslow leaned forward and patted his horse’s sweaty neck. “Well done, Ned.” He had pushed the stallion harder than he liked, but after so many months away he was hungry for...

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