Dead Dog like Me - By Max Davis

Max Davis has been featured on Publishers Weekly and USA Today and has made appearances on the Today Show and the 700 Club and is the author of Dead Dog Like Me. This is a story about a mega-church pastor, whose life is falling apart – at the family level, at the pastoral level, and at the personal level. After a car accident he regains consciousness and finds himself not in his own hometown but separated not only be distance but also by time. He finds himself in the year 800 BC and surprisingly in the body of Mephibosheth – King Saul’s grandson (King Saul was the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel and his son Jonathan’s son was Mephibosheth). Can living in another broken man’s life make any difference in his own life? Will it offer any redeeming value, relief, or redemption to his own? This novel is a story of grace, adventure and redemption.

Happiness According to Jesus - Bobby Schuller (A review)

It is the greatest sermon ever preached by the greatest preacher who ever lived. All the armies who ever marched, all the navies who ever sailed, all the parliaments who ever sat, and all the kings who ever reigned have not affected the life of mankind like this one solitary life. This Jesus of Nazareth, one day sat down and delivered one of the finest speeches in history which is known today as the Sermon on the Mount. I had the privilege to memorize this sermon (Matthew 5, 6, 7) and recite/deliver it at my church (I used to attend). After the delivery my pastor gave me big hug and told me that he has been pasturing for 40 years and had never seen that performed in his life. Bobby Schuller’s Happiness According to Jesus, is an exposition of Jesus’ masterful sermon. Dallas Willard has summarized the theme of the sermon as “It is God’s plan to overcome evil with good in human history and to use each one of us to do it.” In short, the sermon is a counterintuitive, countercultural manifesto of the kingdom of God. There are eighteen chapters in this book and Schuller seasons each chapter with explanation and anecdotes to get the message across.

Empire's End by Jerry Jenkins

Empire’s End, a novel by the mega-bestselling author Jerry Jenkins is codified by mining clues that are permeated throughout the Apostle Paul’s writings. The apostle Paul, of course is a prodigious mind who wrote one-third of the New Testament. How did this recalcitrant Pharisee turn into the most significant Christian theologian of all times? That is where Jerry Jenkins comes in as he writes a fascinating tale that sheds light into Paul’s transformation from a blatant persecutor to an incorrigible proselytizer of the Christian faith.  Jenkins uses his literary skills along with the biblical records and historical information to tell a story that will enthrall and fascinate you. What was Paul’s personality like and what took place beyond the pages that he wrote? What are the principles, feelings, and people who ignited his passions? These are some of the issues one can explore in this novel. The book is over 300 pages long and beckons the reader to join this journey of getting to know one of the greatest missionary and theologian the world as ever encountered.