Books
You Were Made For More
This collaboration with Brooklyn Tabernacle pastor Jim Cymbala is about how God brings us into a greater “Promised Land” of service and blessing, based on the Old Testament books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. Lots of fascinating stories from the mean streets of New...
When God Comes To Church
Collaboration with Dr. Steve Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis), who goes against the prevailing wind by saying we don’t need more slick programs and high-tech media in order to worship. What’s most critical is welcoming God into the center of our...
More Than A Hobby
With Hobby Lobby founder David Green. An inside look at how a man who barely finished high school built the largest privately owned arts-and-crafts franchise in the world. This book delves into why Hobby Lobby closes on Sunday (the best retail day of the week) … why...
In the Presence of My Enemies
For a full year, Gracia Burnham and her missionary pilot husband, Martin, were held hostage in the southern Philippines by a vicious terrorist group called Abu Sayyaf (which has links to al-Qaeda). She got out alive; her husband did not. This book is her dramatic...
To Fly Again
A follow-up to missionary hostage survivor Gracia Burnham’s earlier bestseller In the Presence of My Enemies, this time with lessons learned and perspectives gained once she returned home to America. “A training manual for anyone seeking to fly about discouraging...
Damage Control
Subtitle: How to Stop Making Jesus Look Bad (Baker, 2006). An honest look at making fewer enemies and more friends for the gospel. “Readers can’t help being challenged by Merrill’s message of change and love. He’ll offend a few, encourage many others, and cause some...
Sinners In The Hands Of Angry Church
Of course the current culture isn’t what many of us would like it to be. Now, what to do about that? Does confrontation help, or hinder? Was America ever a “Christian nation”? “A book for Christians serious enough to truly believe that God is God and that he...
Going Public
Subtitled Your Child Can Thrive in Public School, this book is the inspiring voice of an amazing Tacoma couple named David and Kelli Pritchard who not only believe in public education but have also proved it successfully by raising their eight children (count ‘em)...
Kids In Crisis
Written with child behavior expert Ross Wright, this is the book for every parent or guardian who is close to despair over a difficult, hard-to-control child or teenager. It shows what you need to do to rebuild on the basis of relationship instead of rules alone....
The Road To Unafraid
Written with “Black Hawk Down” hero Cpt. Jeff Struecker. If you saw the movie or read the book, you know Jeff as the convoy leader who in 1993 drove his men into Mogadishu, Somalia, and got shot to pieces—three times. That was a turning point for this brave U.S. Army...