With three decades of ministry in San Diego, George McKinney presents us with illustrations of how God is blessing the inner City. Cross the Line shows how to effectively cross racial and social lines to minister and learn from people in the city.

The familiar cast of characters from "The Lake Champlain" series returns to solve a third mystery. Bray Sanderson has just received a strange insurance settlement from a distant relative. As he returns to the family island, he uncovers several dark secrets from the past--and suspects that he may be next in a long line of mysterious deaths.

Win Brady and his fiance Ginger witness a violent drug bust that almost kills Win's best friend Bray. In the middle of concerns about Bray's life and the pressures of their upcoming wedding, Win and Ginger each find themselves playing major roles in the lives of people in dire straits.

Abundant Thinking is how God wants us to think so we may be free do the good works He's prepared in advance for us to do. He created us and loves us, and predestined us before the foundation of the world to be holy in His sight through Jesus' sacrifice, and to do those good works here, within His Kingdom. In a very real sense, we're on His payroll, one from which we can never be laid off or fired. But we're also not on easy street. Abundant Thinking explores our relationship with is big, active, involved, loving, gracious, merciful God.

I believe in Christian Theater Ministries. Nothing capture the attention, imagination, minds, and hearts like live theater. From minutes to hours, an audience or congregation goes wherever you want them to - from their own living rooms to the foot of the cross - and with every step, they become part of both story and message. I'm convinced there's no better way to excite and nurture God's people than a dramatic, theatrical event. Thankfully, these events don't have to be EVENTS They can be as simple as flipping a light switch, or as complex as parting the Red Sea. But whatever you have time,...

For theater or the classroom, these are five one-act Christian plays. Yukon Gold Rush. Dawson City, Yukon Territory, 1896, from the perspective of the children dragged there by gold seeking parents. The Serf and the Knight Templar. It's 1350, the waning years of the Middle Ages. The black plague is killing off half of Europe and Robert, a serf - neither slave nor free - must choose between the wishes of the Lord of the Manor and the lives of his wife and children. Wagons West - 1846, by wagon train the Roberts family heads to Oregon. About two months out, their youngest leaves the circled...

Most of these plays can be used as part of worship services, all of them can be performed at meetings, at youth groups, anywhere you want to introduce a message, and arrest and hold the attendee's attention. To make selecting the right play a little easier, there are four divisions. The first 12 plays explore the fruits of the Spirit, the next 17 take a look at elements of Romans 8, the next 5 bring focus to the Beatitudes, and the rest are a potpourri expanding some of Scripture's most popular and meaningful verses - as if one part of God's Word can be more meaningful than others.

The Comet Night: a play in two acts "Will they ever know the truth about the Comet Night? That night that shattered their lives." What happened that night, that night when the Comet sparkled in the heavens, and their lives were shattered - that night their loving, Christian father beat their older brother nearly to death? Neither will say. The next morning the battered brother leaves never to speak to them again. And the terrible vigil begins for the three younger kids - when will it happen to them? It never does, but now they're adults and their father's dead. The three return with deep...

In His Name: "Some people can justify anything in His name, even murder " Stephen believes he's a Christian. To prove it, he works very hard to make sure everything he does is sanctioned by God's Word, the Bible. Even when he kills people, he assures himself by scripture that God approves. Even so, he runs afoul of a New York crime family, and runs to a small town where he believes he's safe. But before you know it, he's back to old habits. But even through all this, God is at work - in the hearts of the local, single pastor and one of Stephens intended victims, and within a stunning moment...

It all started with just a Christmas play and two struggling souls, Peri and Ronald, who needed to make that play the best it could possibly be. For Peri, who considered it her Christian duty to take care of her abusive invalid mother, it was a few hours of beauty in an otherwise drab, thankless existence. For Ronald, a musician who grew up in a family of indifferent jocks, it was his only Christian ministry, the only thing that gave him any sense of worth. Although Peri and Ronald had modest goals for the play, God's goals for them were infinitely more exciting and fulfilling. Before they...