Bestselling author Dave Harvey unlocks the power of God’s extraordinary plan to use the weaknesses in the lives of Christian leaders to make the gospel shine.When you signed on for ministry leadership, you didn’t realize there would be a clause. The suffering and sadness, fatigue and feebleness, troubles and trauma, are all a part of a conspiracy. The author calls it The Clay Pot Conspiracy: Our weakness + God’s power = Resilient ministry.It is God’s plan to use what we la...

When you signed on for ministry leadership, you didn't realize there would be a clause. The suffering and sadness, fatigue and feebleness, troubles and trauma, are all a part of a conspiracy. The author calls it The Clay Pot Conspiracy: Our weakness + God's power = Resilient ministry. It is God's plan to use what we lack to build perseverance and press us to embody the gospel we preach.Based on his extensive experience in ministry, Harvey unravels the conspiracy, helping r...

"These are not good people. They are psychopathic murderers and drug dealers."A story of crime, punishment and retribution.Alfieri controls the Western Cape cocaine market, the Cape Town nightclub world and the bulk of all racketeering, money laundering and poached abalone markets.Life, notwithstanding what he sees as a few complications, is all about more money.While Alfieri plans expansion, corrupt politicians and police provide his protection and violence rem...

When Dimitri Alfieri was ambushed, he was shot twice as a lesson. The money he was carrying to be laundered, was stolen.He never saw who it was, he can't prove anything but he believes the Hout Bay family need the money, they have the military experience so they had to be behind it.When a significant portion of the money is subsequently dumped in a public park, he becomes increasingly unravelled.Cesar Quevedo, the abalone poacher, his ally and only friend, is no stra...

In 2011 Columbian authorities closed down the Alfieri brothers drug empire, jailed Guido Alfieri for life and deported his brother Benito and Guido's son Dimitri.With Guido's help from behind bars, they washed up on the shores of Cape Town, South Africa and promptly set up shop. Helped by the fact that they were now living in one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Benito Alfieri quickly grasped existing crime syndicates by the throat and re-built the Alfieri drug empire.

Benito Alfieri is expanding his empire. He has a new market in Central Asia, his abalone market keeps growing, his nephew Dimitri is doing a surprisingly excellent job and other than the regular Hout Bay irritations, the world from his office is looking good.Or so he thinks.When small problems arise, he resolves them his way – kidnappings, torture, murder, and corruption make them disappear and so long as business keeps booming, and his empire keeps growing, he's happy....

Cesar Quevedo's life revolves around revenge. The Cape Town winter rains are starting when heads will be down and buried under umbrellas. That will be his time to strike.Dimitri Alfieri also wants revenge but understands the value of waiting. In the meantime, he can't stop niggling away at the Hout Bay family, despite being warned off.With drug money missing, two psychopathic killers with a reputation for brutality are sent from Bogota to Cape Town to find it.Needing f...

A world unimagined – the other side of the mountain range is as far removed from twenty-first century reality as a parallel universe. For the nine survivors the full extent of this pristine, wildlife-filled environment, is totally bizarre and an encounter with an unexpectedly large, but injured lion leaves them baffled - from a size perspective.From the top of one of the numerous mountains, a puzzling sighting provokes more disturbing questions than answers. From another side of the...

The beautiful Atlantic seaboard of Cape Town, South Africa.A wealthy (self-made) brother, sister and her life partner open their long- cherished business in the small harbor town of Hout Bay.Unknown to them, their wealth attracts the close attention of a drug cartel in Camps Bay—a wealthy suburb on the outskirts of Cape Town—who control drug distribution throughout the Western Cape in general and Cape Town in particular.The drug cartel, for some reason known only to th...

All it took was 5 seconds for the world to change forever.For 28 passengers, the end of the world arrived on the morning of October 08, 2015.That morning, the unthinkable happened when several aircraft vanished from visual sight and radar in the vicinity of Cape Town International Airport, South Africa.Alpha Intercontinental Flight AHA 113 was one of these. Despite extensive efforts, no wreckage or debris was ever found. It was as if Flight AHA 113 had simply never ex...

Ten square kilometers (six square miles). That's approximately the total amount of beach that provides relative safety for the survivors although even that comes with nature's brutal reminders.At the top of the beach is a massive wetland. A wildlife paradise, but home to initially, five aggressive nomadic mountain lions. Down the beach from their camp, where they discovered the second aircraft wreck, a clan of hyenas has taken residence. And now that the orcas have left the bay on t...

What do you do when someone you love leaves? And how do you pursue someone who has hurt you, who has sinned against you? In Letting Go, pastors Dave Harvey and Paul Gilbert share stories of pain and stories of hope as they reveal how to care for the prodigal who has strayed. Whether you are dealing with an unfaithful marriage partner, a rebellious child, or a wayward friend, the counsel they offer will help you to pursue a gospel-rooted approach, grounded in truth and pra...