by Adam C. English (2012)
Tells the true and compelling tale of Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra. Around the fourth century in what is now Turkey, a boy of humble circumstance became a man revered for his many virtues, chiefly dealing generously with his possessions. Yet he was much more than virtuous. As English reveals, Saint Nicholas was of integral influence in events that would significantly impact the history and development of the Christian church, including the Council of Nicaea, the destruction of the temple to Artemis in Myra, and a miraculous rescue of three falsely accused military officers.
Stephen Bly
Wandering aimlessly on the dangerous high desert of Nevada Territory in 1860, a fourteen-year-old orphan boy finds shelter, food, and a Christian family at the Pony Express station run by the Lovelocks.
Thomas Kent Edlund
The National Socialist government of Germany, in May of 1939, conducted a census of the nation's "non-Teutonic" peoples. Plans for this undertaking stemmed from a 1936 decision intended to identify those "ethnic subversives" who threatened Hitler's fascist state. Authority for this activity was vested with the Reichssippenamt, an historically respectable government department dating from Bismarckian times.
Debra West Smith
Thirteen-year-old Hattie asks for God's protection when she becomes trapped on a Louisiana island during a devastating hurricane in 1893.
J.I. Packer & Loren Wilkinson
"If an earlier generation people sometimes were said to be so heavenly-minded that they were no earthly good," begins Carl F.H. Henry, "in our day the very opposite is more apt to be the case." At the same time the hunger for spiritual vitality is growing. What, therefore, is the nature of spiritual experience, and how can it be integrated into Christian and academic disciplines? This is the task that over twenty scholars have set for themselves in this important work on a topic of increasing significance for the church. After dealing with biblical and exegetical issues, they take up theological and historical concerns, closing with integrative and interdisciplinary approaches.