The most common response I get to that title is: "You think that's funny?" The answer I'd really like to give you is the Joe Pesci answer: "Funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you?" But the answer I will give you (and Joe) is: Yes, I do, or I wouldn't have made it the title of this collection of short humorous essays, ludicrous lists, satirical stories and even (shudder) a couple parodic poems. Yes, the answer is Yes. There is only one other word I'd like to say about this c...

A hidden city above the clouds. An impossible storm. A secret that could change the world.Investigative photographer Marcus "Mac" Allen has spent his career chasing evidence, not myths. But when his best friend dies while investigating an impossible storm, Mac discovers clues that point to something no one should be able to explain.His search for the truth leads him to the Aerie, a hidden civilization suspended high above the clouds, where advanced weather-...

In this concise and informative book, former missionary Scott Hildreth delves into the heart of Christian evangelism and missions, drawing inspiration from the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:16–20. With a focus on practical insights and biblical principles, this guide equips believers to actively participate in both local conversations about Jesus and the global mission of sharing the gospel. Readers discover that obedience to Jesus’s command is not optional—it’s our privilege and re...

The health of the church depends on the health of its leaders.Whether due to emotional exhaustion, poor choices, moral failures, or stress and fatigue, church leaders are experiencing burnout at higher rates than ever before. In Serving Jesus without Burning Out, Steven A. McKinion and D. Scott Hildreth address some of the most problematic issues facing men and women in church leadership today, including a pervasive lack of rest and barriers to community, ...

AN URGENT LETTER FROM SANTA CLAUS: Dear Aging Children: You and I both know that in your heart of hearts you still believe in me...or how could I continue to exist? That's precisely the existential threat I face when a Reality Plague begins infecting the entire Land of Imagination, threatening to overwhelm us with rotten reality and extinguish fantasy altogether, turning Earth into a dull, gray place. Like Kansas! This fantaphage might even be the villainous nemesis behind OzCo's attempted...

"The opportunity for the greatest turnaround in college football exists here today, and it's not one to be taken lightly." —Bill SnyderWhen Kansas State hired Bill Snyder as its head football coach in 1988, the Wildcats had one of the worst programs in college football and hadn't won a conference title since 1934. Little could anybody predict that Snyder would soon engineer a total transformation in Manhattan, Kansas. From his humble beginnings in St. Joseph, Missouri, Snyder rose t...

NO PLAN B: The Adventures of a Carbon Unit in Silicon Valley, or How I Made a Million Dollars in Hi-Tech Startups Basically by Just Showing Up (Don't Try This at Home)Ever wonder what it was like to participate in the Silicon Valley hi-tech revolution? To work at a startup struggling for survival? To be deeply embedded in a major company like Apple? This worklife memoir gets you in on the ground floor...and like its author, you'll never rise any higher.NO PLAN B is not a hi...

What if talking about your faith felt as natural as discussing your family, your work, or your hobbies?Evangelism doesn't have to be uncomfortable. You're under no pressure to prove anything. It really just amounts to having a conversation, and almost any context provides the opportunity for evangelism. You can spot these opportunities when you listen, because people talk about what's important to them. So think of evangelism as building a relationship with someone and intentionall...

This volume of essays by renowned Civil War historians provides a comprehensive history of the legendary Iron Brigade and its service to the Union.Fighting in the Civil War for the Union Army of the Potomac, Brigadier General Rufus King's Wisconsin Brigade was the only all-Western Brigade to fight for the Eastern armies of the Union. Known as "The Black Hat Brigade" because the soldiers wore the regular army's dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, t...

When looking at polls and surveys of the overall church in America today we cannot help but realize it is slowly sinking. Eighty percent of the churches today are stagnant or in decline with people leaving and church doors closing at an alarming rate. What must we do? We seem to have all the modern-day technology to help fuel church growth; television, internet, podcast, live streaming, text messaging, emailing, digital bible studies, and the endless list goes on but still the church decli...

Alec Smart Mystery #3. "Fans of Donald E. Westlake will love this wild comic caper!" –ComiCaper. When a 13-year-old comic book magnate hires detective Alec Smart to find a rare Batman book stolen from his collection, the curious request sends the dysfunctional duo on an odd odyssey navigating the dangerous straits of chaotic comic book conventions, crooked dealers and crazed parents...one of whom is determined to bed him, and the other, to run him down with his car. And when Smart isn't be...

Strategies for protecting wolves, mountain lions, and more—by taking the human species into account as well: "Very valuable."— Journal of Wildlife ManagementDrawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, Large Carnivore Conservation argues that conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of people and governance—of reconciling diverse and ...