Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Christian - General

For the past five years, Steve Finnado has anonymously given monetary gifts to Third World countries at Christmas. His generosity has earned him the nickname 'Mr. Christmas," and he has every intention of keeping his identity secret. But when plucky reporter Susan Wooden appears in his living room, Steve knows the gig is finally up.

Susan demands to know his story, and Steve reluctantly agrees, knowing that if he does not give a true account of his life, his motivations will be misrepresented in the press. Beginning with his memories of his sixteenth birthday party at his grandparents'...

David Paul enjoys his job as a program instructor for developmentally challenged adults. He gets along great with his coworkers, and he thrives on the challenge each day brings. But it's the special relationship with an elderly resident named Huey that David treasures most. After a new group home manager, Brad Ramsey, takes charge of Huey's residence, David begins to suspect the charismatic Brad is not all that he seems.Before long, David suspects that Brad is ritualistically torturing Huey. But how will he prove it? Frustrated with his inability to protect his vulnerable friend, David is...

For Reverend Stephen Sweitzer, the pastor of a prosperous church in a small Midwestern town, life has become both tense and dull. His marriage of twenty-five years no longer holds any joy, he worries about the his son Bill's revolutionary activities against corporate greed, and he feels that he no longer can bring about needed changes in his own congregation.

A sympathetic relationship with a new parishioner Ellen Dietrich turns into love. Stephen decides to start a new life with her in St. Louis. Before long Stephen realizes that he is perilously close to losing his own identity and he...

The author reflects on the betrayal of Jesus and proposes a spiritual explanation for why Judas Iscariot from Judea was chosen to carry the label 'traitor." This story describes apostle Judas Thaddeus' struggle with his name after Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus; it is narrated through an aspiring apostle, Barsabbas, who mistakenly believes he was overlooked for the job. Although much has been written about the 12 apostles, little is actually known about their personal lives. We do know that many were unlearned fishermen and they, no doubt, had ambitions, fears, and carnal desires similar...

Megan Connors is a self-centered eighteen-year-old. Her mother's alcoholism and depression are making Megan feel like the mother instead of the daughter. After an embarrassing confrontation with her mother, Megan runs away-right into the path of an oncoming bus.

In the operating room following the accident, Megan's heart stops for more than ten minutes. During this time, she is swept away to a futuristic world by an angel named Eon. In this world, Megan sees startling images of what is to come-a madman wanting to play god has released a killer virus known as the Bleeds. Megan's journey...

In "Fascists in Christian Clothing," the sequel to "Is America Nuts?," Dr. Stanley Warlib is back, and he's discovered a melding of evangelical Christians, Moonies, and Conservatives to bring about a fascist state right here in the United States.

Banding together in a web of interlocking and interconnected organizations, these architects of American society believe that America is a cesspool and that salvation lies in taking back America for Christ. Three things stand in the way of ushering in the Kingdom of God to America: liberals, black-robed judges, and the secular government.

Dr....

The child was sexually abused at age 5 in that 'house' located somewhere in the Tenderloin. Somehow, he managed to escape and ended up on the waterfront among San Francisco's homeless street people. Right from the start, the child was told to 'buzz off' by the very same people with whom he gradually learned to subsist and be independent. He soon became known as young Buzzoff. He was destined to be flushed down the sewer of life until he met the Professor, an ex-convict, who himself had been convicted of raping one of his female students years before.

The author's working experience as a...

During the Korean War, American G.I. David Ashton meets a beautiful and highly educated young woman, Jila Rhee. The cousin of David's South Korean interpreter, she is the oldest daughter in a family of medical doctors, all of whom were educated at Hong Kong University.

Not only is the Rhee family of mixed ethnicities, they are also from different religious backgrounds. The Rhee family members are very impressed with young David and go to great lengths to cultivate his desire for learning. But David secretly wonders why they are so interested in his development and suspects them of...

Since the death of both of her parents, Alexandra Romero's grandmother from Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been her sole support system. But that treasured relationship comes to an abrupt end. Alexandra begins her career in broadcasting, determined to reach the top of her field, and becomes too busy for visits home. Gran often talks of the rich and satisfying life Alexandra could find in the city of her birth-one that would be filled with a support system of people who knew her parents and care deeply about her. Soon it becomes too late. Gran dies, and Alexandra makes her first return trip to New...

Bethany Mitchell is about to get married and start the next phase of her life, but at the last possible moment she gets cold feet. Instead of staying in Connecticut to sort out her reasons for leaving her fiance at the altar, she runs to New York to take an internship with a marketing firm. But no matter how far she runs she can't escape God who is trying to win her heart or the people following her. Little does she know, she will have to confront the issues that drove her from Connecticut and her past. She is soon embroiled in a case to clear her father's name. Dead for over ten years,...

Author Zachary DeSousa takes readers on a unique journey of the life of young girl, named Naomi. "The Story of Naomi" is a lifelong biography of Naomi, who has six children and lived in about 10 B.C. This is about the time that Mary was expecting her first baby, Jesus. Naomi was there in the Nazareth market where she had seen Mary pregnant with her first baby She subsequently invited the carpenter Joseph, Mary and Jesus to her daughters wedding at Cana. Naomi has tragic incidents in her life story-and she is very old-when she goes to see Mary and sees her in a vision at the Feast of...

It's not that she isn't having any fun, but Niecy had to keep it real. She was sick of liquor, lying, and being loose.

'Liquor brings the freak out in a lot of people. But, like the preacher said this morning, I can't do anything about what I used to do. These days I've narrowed my drinks down to two or three. I know I could stop cold turkey if I wanted to. I do realize half the brothers I would have thought were fine once upon a time don't look so good now. Just last week I ran into an old bed buddy, Wesley, who I thought, at the time, looked like Shemar Moore. As long as I was drinking....

"Heart Awakening" is the story of how a young man's pursuit of love becomes a journey into spiritual awakening. Set during the cultural and spiritual confusion of the early 1970s, it captures the experience of suburban young people searching for deeper meaning in their lives. Carl Lehrer has grown cynical after a failed relationship and nearly being drafted. He falls for Sharon Belmont, whose openness to new spiritualities launches him on a personal journey involving meditation, spiritual teachers, and a psychic premonition about their future. Carl's quest for love and truth eventually leads...

"In the midst of a major Washington, D.C. snowstorm, Dr. Dell Forsythe is blind-sided. Neither he nor anyone he knows has ever witnessed anything like it. Just before Christmas, a terminally ill cancer patient under his care has a miraculous recovery. Without any medical explanation, relatives and staff are convinced that a heaven-sent angel is responsible. It's not that Forsythe doesn't want to believe in miracles, it's just that after years of professional disappointments and personal regrets, he's well past skeptical. That is, until he meets the angel."

Construction worker Michel Thomas' bold, blasphemous, and self-established concepts are wreaking havoc in the world of religion, causing believers to disbelieve and nonbelievers to trust in his self-proclaimed theories. This, in turn, has created a multitude of misguided soul-searchers.

Fed up with his arrogant ignorance, a Christian coworker is tasked with afflicting him with a blessed curse to see the spiritual war we face, up close and in person. Michael is taken on a journey for seven days to see for himself what he says is not even true. He meets an angel known as Bernard, who shows...

Three old friends seek to address a crisis of faith by attending an interfaith conference of the world's three great monotheistic religions. Among leading Christians, Muslims and Jews, they find meaning, romance and violence on a biblical scale.

An engaging religious polemic wrapped in the familiar mantel of a murder mystery, "No Gods Before Me: The First of the Commandment Mysteries," is imbued with the most relevant Biblical and Quranic verses, revealing the scriptural roots of the current world conflict.

Respectfully and intelligently representing the views of humanists and...

A Message of Hope: Rosario is an Ugly Duckling who overcomes the obstacles in her life to rise to the pinnacle of success. It is a story of her life in finding answers to life's question in a Universal Truth of Love and to turn tragedy into triumph of finding Beauty of God hidden from within.

Born to a child mother in Manila and molested by her stepfather in America, Rosario learns from her friend, Matthew, to tap the well of Love within herself. As a "Beauty With A Cause," she uses her influence as an international beauty queen, Miss Earth, to help unfortunate children around the world,...

"The Saga of the People of Holy Martyrs" Continues in the sequel to...

"Glory of the Olive "

"Fr. Riley motioned that it was time to leave, and she stood up reluctantly. They were not allowed to stay for the interment. It was forbidden.

There were a great many things they were not allowed to do since the rise of Yeshue ben Dan, the emperor of the world, the man who called himself the King of Kings, the Anointed One...

The Catholics knew him as Antichrist."

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"Burning Faith "

Susan Claire Potts

What is your attitude toward the holiday season? Do you have the 'Christmas Spirit"? Do you refuse to observe such 'pagan celebrations"? Or do you just say, 'Bah, Humbug "? Rosemary St. Nichols is a single mother (and a 'Recovering Catholic") who has just moved to River City with her son Jonathan. Here, she meets Teniqua Johnson and her son Mychal, who celebrate Kwanzaa rather than Christmas. After a Nativity Scene placed outside City Hall causes controversy in the community, Rosemary wonders, 'If even churches can't agree to cooperate, how in the world will all the people in River City ever...