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Following a noteworthy career in magazine, curriculum, book and Bible publishing, Dean Merrill is now concentrating on independent editorial work. Some of his projects are solo writing, many are collaborations with well-known personalities, and still others involve overall directing of complex editorial projects.
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Excellence Wins

Collaboration with Horst Schulze, the fascinating man who put Ritz-Carlton “on the map” of the hotel industry. This book is his no-nonsense guide to becoming the best in a world of compromise, whether you’re in business, education, government, the nonprofit arena, or...

The God Of New Beginnings

Collaboration with Rob Cowles and Matt Roberts—two daring pastors who have stepped out of the normal career track to plant “churches for people who don’t do church.” Called Genesis Project (“a place of new beginnings”), they touch hundreds of addicts, felons,...

Miracle Invasion

A collection of 40-some stories of accounts of credible healings, prophecies, miracles, and other gifts of the Spirit that have occurred in North America during the past few decades. They inspire faith and courage to access God’s activity—if Christians are not too...

Serving God In A Migrant Crisis

Subtitled “Ministry to People on the Move,” this 134-page monograph is a data-packed plunge into the worldwide refugee situation: what’s going on, what to know, and what to do in the name of Christ. It draws upon the extensive knowledge of the great missiologist...

Serving God In Today’s Cities

A fast-moving monograph (113 pages) on our fast-urbanizing world, developed from the research of noted British mission leader Patrick Johnstone. Shows how this is the world’s “first urban century”–some 90 percent of us will live in cities by the year 2100, and the...

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Let Someone Else Help- I am always surprised at my storehouse of reasons not to get involved with someone else’s need…. read more »
Liberty vs. Virtue- Liberty and freedom are great—but they don’t make a strong nation if citizens do not use their freedoms responsibly. read more »
It Ought to Hurt- If you decide that, in war, it is right to kill a few in order to prevent the other side from killing many, you’ve got to do something else…. read more »
Pizza for Breakfast?- Major changes are happening in the way modern families eat, not all of them for the good. read more »
Is Marriage More Chancy These Days?- A number of the old allies have fled—the traditions and forces that used to prop up marriage as an institution. Our generation is in greater need to distinctly Christian reasons to stay married…. read more »
Car Fever!- I was a wide-eyed twelve-year-old in the fall of 1956, a season to be marked forever in automobile history as the Year of the Fin…. read more »
The Joy of Zingers- Words are like hydrogen; if you know what you’re doing, you can make quite a bang. But you can also blow up innocent bystanders…. read more »
How Long, O Lord?- When I tell you what I thought about my godly father, now 82 and wheelchair-bound in an Iowa nursing home, you’ll be shocked. But when I tell you how God managed to straighten my head, you’ll be relieved…. read more »
Some Missing Links in Healing- Perhaps we have not paid adequate attention to those God would most like to heal, namely those who need to be shocked into a demonstration of his power…. read more »
The God of New Things—and Old Ones, Too- Is he a progressive? A traditionalist? Or some of both? read more »
Of Toy Trucks and Toasters- Christmas is a Baby in a manger. But Christmas is also God reaching out to a hostile world…. read more »
After the Fiasco—Restoring Fallen Christians- By the time twenty-two-year-old Eva Eber showed up in the pastor’s office, her life story was already book length…. read more »