Author Knoche has discovered Murphy's law through his own experience. When he slips on a banana peel, he has learned not only to get up, but also to avoid stepping on banana peel. "All the episodes are true, " he writes, "and although they may tend to incriminate me, I'll share them with you anyway. Because in them I have discovered abiding spiritual lessons and new vistas of faith in Jesus."

Read this book for the next 30 days, share its concepts at the Midweek prayer meeting, digest the scripture and Spirit of Prophecy references, pray and join the growing band of intercessors who are making a real difference in this world for eternity--on their knees!

Perched in the church tower, Walter Murat watched the enemy scale the walls of the city like a plague of multi-colored locusts. The life of a Waldensian was one of danger as he spread and taught the Word of God across Europe. Helen Godfrey Pyke describes a time when to possess even a fragment of Scripture could be a death warrant.

All around us today we see striking evidence that Jesus is coming soon. That's a reason to rejoice. But it's also a call for us to shake off our lethargy and get to work fulfilling the commission God has given us and preparing to meet Jesus when He returns. In Almost Home, Ted N.C. Wilson, our General Conference president, identifies the spiritual essentials for those who will live through the end times and witness Jesus' return.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church was founded upon an apocalyptic message that needed to be preached to the entire world—immediately and at any cost. But does the church today preach that same message with the same urgency? Has the Adventist Church become irrelevant because it has sought to be more relevant to the world? Knight challenges us to go back to our roots, to examine the prophecies that fueled the early Seventh-day Adventists’ determination to evangelize the world.

For many Christians, a huge gap can develop between what really IS and what they FEEL about what really is. All too often our inner feelings do not square with the outer reality. god may be very close, yet we may feel He has abandoned us. Author Dan Day introduces the reader to the needed skills for taking charge of our emotions. By following his suggestions, they can achieve a spiritual stability and security they never thought possible.

This book reminds us that someday each of us will come to the last mile, the end of the way, and we will be looking back over our days, months, and years. Life has a different perspective when we are looking back.  What a wonderful satisfaction we will have if we have done the best we could with what we have had.

Many people today seem to be crying out for just enough strength to cope. But is coping enough?  The author doesn’t think so.  He shows how one can be in control, full of energy, and headed in a positive direction. Also contained is a powerful concise overview of the great plan of salvation.

Arthur L. Bietz, Ph.D., was for many years Professor and Director of the Division of Religion, College of Medical Evangelists (now Loma Linda University), Los Angeles, and pastor of the White Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church. Dr. Bietz was well-known as a Bible student and an authority in counseling and guidance.

With colorful strokes of personal testimony and cleverly crafted comparisons, author John Thomas McLarty paints a picture of the laws of God that ultimately point to one profound truth: God is love.

Often, the path of a Christian seems foolish to the world. It’s not wise, says the world, to put all your eggs in one basket. But for the Christian, there is only one basket—God’s.
Crops saved, cancer healed, angel visits, tornadoes diverted—Glenn and Ethel Coon share fabulous answers to “foolish” prayers. Well known in the 1970s as the authors of The ABC’s of Bible Prayer, the Coons share stories from across the country of those who asked, believed, and claimed God’s promises, and were lavishly rewarded for their faith.
While these stories took place decades ago, rest assured that God is still in the business of answering prayers, for He has promised, “Call to Me, and I will answer you” (Jeremiah 33:3, NKJV).

In this, the companion book for first quarter 2012 Sabbath School Bible Study Guides, the author paints a vivid word picture of a holy God.  Dr. Davidson shows that all study of God must come from a heart and mind trained in humility, and that ultimately, the more we know about God, the more our love for Him will deepen and intensify, leading to adoration and worship on a grander level.

In 1842, fifteen-year-old Ellen Harmon had a dream. "[The angel] handed me a green cord coiled up closely. This he directed me to place next to my heart, and when I wished to see Jesus, take it from my bosom, and stretch it to the utmost." Alex Bryan believes that the Adventist movement can have a bright, prevailing future, but we are at a critical time. The challenges are significant. We need bold and beautiful dreams emerging from every generation and locality. We need Green Cord Dreams. We need The One. We need Jesus.

Many Christians wrestle with feelings of detachment and disillusionment in their spiritual experience. The reasons vary--materialism, responsibilities, or feelings of failure when trying to live up to expectations of what a Christian should be. But it doesn't have to be this way. This book offers comforting reassurance that God can restore our spiritual passion and give a new perspective on what really matters.

Andy Nash explores issues that Adventists grapple with collectively. Male or female, young or old, vegan or omnivore, we’re in it together—haystacks.

Reevaluation of and insights into the ups and downs of the Christian Life over the past 30 years. The author includes material from his original book Help Lord, I Blew It Again (c.1980), to show how the message of a victorious Christian life is still relevant and helpful in today's world.

How to Kill Adventist Education takes a hard look at the troubles plaguing Adventist schools. Not only are those problems identified, along with their root causes, but a simple yet effective strategy for change is proposed.

Founder of the It is Written television ministry, George Vandeman, was a man personally acquainted with Christ. A man who met a miracle. Through his own story, and the stories of others, he demonstrates the struggle of surrender, the debilitating result of guilt, the persistence of conscience, the healing power of forgiveness...the miracle of conversion.

“We are all born with the drum-major instinct,” writes Marjorie Lewis Lloyd. “What baby, from the moment he makes his premiere performance, is not the center of attention? And what child does not try to keep it that way? If the real world does not have a big enough spotlight, he will turn to the world of fantasy.”

George Knight tackles tough questions in this shining collection of articles, speeches, and papers. Including the courageous speech “If I Were the Devil,” presented at the 2000 General Conference session, this book is an insightful look at Adventism’s mission, structure, and contemporary challenges.

Brian started toward the screen door, their defense from hordes of mosquitoes. He pulled the door open.
The next instant—it was as if lightning struck—he felt a walloping thud on his back with an intense stab of pain in his chest, as he was knocked violently to his hands and knees. He heard the door slam shut, and Kaliauae suddenly emitting piercing screams in the night.
Brian felt his chest and back, and called desperately to Valmae, “Quick, honey! I’ve got a spear right through me!”
Throughout the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, young men and women have left their homes and families to travel to distant lands and share their faith. Each of these missionaries sacrificed comfort and security to serve the Savior they loved. Impaled is the fascinating story of a young married couple, Brian and Valmae Dunn, twentieth-century missionaries to the South Pacific island of Malaita. They made the ultimate sacrifice so that others could have eternal life.

King of the Cannibals is the true story of a man who came out of the heathenism among cannibals and became one of God's leaders in the Solomon Islands. It also includes the exciting adventures these people faced during the Japanese invasion of World War II when they saved Allied airmen whose planes crashed on their islands.

Do you realize you are living in the world’s most exciting hour? Living in Our Finest Hour gives an unexpected perspective on the great issues of the day. Can the worst of times also be the best of times? Learn how you can be more than a spectator, how you can live extraordinarily and love extraordinarily in these extraordinary times.

To the unaided eye, the curved face of the dam looks strong, massive, solid. But a lacework of hairline cracks races unseen over its surface. Pressure builds, and then— suddenly the dam gives way. Pentecost! A towering wall of unleashed power explodes forward, surging down the corridors of human need. The Holy Spirit—the mighty river of living water Jesus described in John 7—has been set free! And the world will never be the same.

When you concentrate your willpower toward knowing Jesus, when you allow Him to dwell in your heart, you will find yourself on the threshold of a great blessing. You will hold the great and simple key to unlocking the limitless storehouses of heaven and eternity. Are you open to embracing the kind of life God wants you to have, both here each day and in eternity?

As we live, we each weave patterns in the loom of life. Some of them are tangled, some unfinished, some incomplete and laid aside as useless. Other patterns are such a mixture of brightness and somberness that the completed design is lovely beyond words. In Loom 'o Life Josephine Edwards writes of the Master Weaver who works within each life, striving to bring together a pattern of unsurpassed loveliness.

Dealing with money has been part of human existence since time immemorial.  Although today there are sophisticated tools to manage, invest and spend money, there are also time-tested principles that can help us survive amid the great financial challenges Christians face today.  This book will be very useful in understanding a Christian philosophy of finances, understanding the causes of the financial problems and developing a financial plan that will help you budget efficiently, prevent difficulties, invest wisely and prepare for retirement.

For a dedicated worker for Christ, there is nothing more essential to success than the master of the science of soul winning until it becomes a divine art. In this book , Evangelist Glenn A. Coon draws upon his rich background of public and personal evangelism to give us these divinely inspired methods of reaching the heart and not merely the head.

If you’ve ever thought "There just has to be something more to the Christian life than this," you need to discover A Place in God’s Heart. Using words that drip with encouragement, and illustrations that radiate with warmth, author and speaker Kay Rizzo shows us that living in the continual essence of God’s divine presence is the "something more" we’ve been craving.

How do we meet with disappointments and heartaches? Some grow bitter and resentful; they cannot endure the test.  Others are stoical in the time of calamity; they refuse to allow suffering to touch their heart.  We can see the reactions if we look about us.  The author submits his answer to the problem of pain, suffering, and death with a prayer, "I will see it through with God!"

This book is an easy read and filled with practical steps for dealing with life’s challenges such as depression, forgiveness issues, addictions, and much more. It’s also a great sharing book for those who no longer attend church as Mike tells the story of his dropping out of church, then returning. Order your copy today.

Discover the ten cans of change in this motivational and inspirational book, Ten Cans.

"The Christian life is a battle and a march. But the victory to be gained is not won by human power. The battle which we have to fight--the greatest battle that was ever fought by man--is the surrender of self to the will of God, the yielding of the heart to the sovereignty of love."

Witnesses Through Trial is a collection of stories of men, women, and children who experienced suffering and, through their endurance, witnessed to others.