Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Christian - General

The second novel by Johnnie Griffin weaves modern day characters into the ancient Biblical narrative about Jacob, Leah, and Rachel. "But, Jacob Still Loved Rachel" is the bomb according to Lorenzo Davis.

Sue wanted to please Ray. To keep Ray. To make Ray happy. If having a baby kept him and made him happy, then that is what Sue would do. Ray was her life. And she would do what she deemed necessary to keep her life.

Leah questioned why she did not have Jacob's love when she brought children into the world for him, through so much pain and discomfort.

Sue seeks the wisdom of her...

"I was chronicling the transformation of a lost man who traveled down a hostile road without a map." Meet Lyle Brooks-confident, intensely private, and squeaky clean. Lyle's entire existence is never out of his control. But shortly after 9/11, something happens that makes him a bit more like the rest of us.

On his way to visit his mother, Lyle is at the airport when he is subjected to a humiliating search. Disgraced in more ways than one, Lyle boards the next flight to Tacoma to visit his mother and tries to put the experience behind him. But it's not that simple.

Lyle tells the story...

'Did the Lord arrange this-or the devil?"

The heart of Pastor David Campbell churns with this question when, standing in the misty rain on a jungle airstrip in Paraguay, he sees her-from his years past. What is she doing here? He never dreamed he would ever see her again. David had just come from America where, normally, a life of devotion to Jesus Christ would bring fulfillment and peace. But he has discovered living such a life in today's America can instead bring tragic legal and personal consequences.

It is a crushed and discouraged pastor who finds himself on a strangely wondrous...

As Leeza celebrates her forty-fifth birthday, there is no birthday cake, candles, gifts, or party with family and friends. It s just her, alone in a prison cell probably for the rest of her life. She contemplates how her life has gone so completely off track, and she recalls how it all began for her as a little girl growing up in Eden Square in the projects. Leeza wishes she could go back to being the little girl with the bad grammar and the big dreams, but it s much too late for that now. She faces a death sentence. A work of spiritual fiction, Little Miss Sanctified, by author Dr. Louis...

When God created the world and all that is in it, he brought the concept of "time" into eternity. But with the entrance of sin and death during the fall of mankind, another form of time entered as well. This type of time is not attached to eternity, but it is a counterfeit production of Satan in his attempt to be God, and he's offering the temporal-a deceiving place with no time.

God's eternal life promises joy, peace, and life everlasting. However, Satan's temporal time is a place where there is never enough time in the day-no time to reflect, meditate, or pray. Only by forcing ourselves...

"'Well, you see, a great many people have the wrong idea about us Catholics. They think that we all have one purpose in mind, and that is to change everything around us according to the way we believe, and since you are the principal of the school, with such authority, well, I guess it kind of scares them.""

John Brady and his thirteen-year-old son, Tim, have just moved to a small town where John will be the principal at the local school. Both knew that they would face many changes in the coming months, but neither one could have anticipated that their religious beliefs would not be...

Who is this man?

Josue is locked up in Shalem State Prison, a maximum-security institution. He had never attracted much attention to himself before, and was content to just 'do his own time."

But then something happened to him; and now, he's on a mission to share it.

'Man, I ain't never heard nothin' like this guy " exclaims Jamal, one of the twelve prisoners that Josue has appointed to be his 'Reps," and to share the Word about his message with the other prisoners. Josue freely gives of himself, praying for the healing of the many troubled people who flock to him, and telling...

Often saying yes to God requires experiencing heartbreaking trials and performing unexpected tasks. Such was the case with Charlotte Morley who is in the fictional town of Turtle Island, South Carolina visiting her grandparents. A chain of events begin one Sunday afternoon starting with the pastor being ran from the church, a cousin running off with the pastor and the cousin's twin just plain running off. While waiting to learn the whereabouts of her twin cousins, Charlotte finds herself working for the Lord with and amongst a chicken thief, her grandmother's acid-tongue friend, a millionaire...

Rachel Fredericks is a woman in deep turmoil. Behind her beautiful smile she wonders if life is worth living. As the wife of a powerful pastor, she has always kept her struggles well hidden, until now. In her new search for truth and meaning, Rachel begins to uncover troubling issues about her husband, Jonathan. With his ministry expanding at a fever pitch, he is headed toward greatness. Will Jonathan aid Rachel in her search for truth, even if it might implicate him and threaten his pastoral career?

How will the truth change Rachel's relationship with her husband? How will it change her...

"As I sat waiting, I became more and more dazed and distant. I quietly prayed as I thought about Dad and all that he means to me."

On a warm August morning in 1997, thirty something author Bryan Hogan woke suddenly to the sound of his mother's panicked voice as she frantically tried to awaken his lifeless father, Bill. In that sad moment, life for the Hogan family was forever changed.

After a day of profound grief, Bryan fell asleep feeling empty and exhausted. To his disbelief, he awoke after a full night's sleep to find that his deceased father was still alive. But how could that be?...

How does God reach people? This question is asked by many. Each person travels a different road in coming to a saving knowledge of Jesus. God draws people in many different ways. Often those ways involved intense inner turmoil. God is questioned as to why He takes certain actions in individual lives. Many times His ways are hidden. People are led through painful circumstances which can produce great bitterness. Even when others find God for themselves others fail to grasp how they could accept their faith. They challenge them to rationalize why they so readily trust in a God who "makes no...

In the post-World War III era, all forms of religion have been abolished. A recent aberration in the government's strict rule allowed Alden Keenan to bring Christianity back to viability within society. But when the movement is discovered, Alden and all members of the group disappear. What was the fate of the movement's leader Alden Keenan? What did the members of the group do so wrong that they were removed from society without a trace of their existence left? For the people of Quadrant 40, the government only provided mysterious letters that dissolved marriages and families without...

Just graduated from Seminary, but without a job, Jim decides to beef up his resume by visiting people in a hospice. There he meets Ida, a woman without faith in the last hours of her life. Ida, who had been a professor of religion, offers Jim a Faustian bargain-her soul for one moment of true happiness. Even though he knows he can make no such bargain, Jim proceeds to try to bring her peace. Jim is green and Ida is jaded. She knows more theology than he does and proceeds to undermine his own faith with the experience of fencing with generations of college students. Jim, however, has a friend...

The characters from "Sins and Sacrifices" are together again. They are faced with more trials and greater hardships, but with each other's support, they strive to overcome the obstacles in their paths. New characters are introduced and they, too, find themselves caught up in affairs that challenge them emotionally and spirituality. "The Victory" is a story about trials, testimonies, and the will to overcome.

The rainy days of spring gave way to humid mornings the summer of 1973, forcing Lola Williams to drowsily toss and turn in search of a dry spot in her sweat-soiled bed. The small upstate New York community of brick Dutch Row houses baked their tenants, forcing them to pour one by one to stoops and open windows. Lola willfully peeled her body from her sticky sheet and made her way to the window, where she found no relief. But the heat didn't bother Lola like previous summers when she was held captive to her bedroom window, because her mother, Ruby, refused to give her permission to work a...

Abdul and Thomas-different faiths-different struggles, but they had the same talent, boxing. They were two of the best boxers in the country destined for the Amateur Boxing Championship. Proud of their faiths, they conquered one boxer after another to their supporters' delight, until they were the only two left. They gave praise to their religions for giving them the strength to conquer their opponents, and inspired many of their religious peers.

But after seeing what they inspired, reveal itself, these fighters realized they had strayed from the paths of their faiths-and became people...