Sex and money scandals. An exploding divorce rate. Drug-addicted youths. And an ever-growing worldliness. Today's evangelical church is fighting battles on all fronts. And we seem to be losing these battles to the relentlessly encroaching world. Perhaps the answers to our problems are not in the present, but in the past. Because there was time when Christians were able to stand up to world.The author takes you on an engrossing journey back to the time - back to the end of the first...

Practically everyone in the western world has heard of the man called St. Patrick. But hardly anyone knows anything about him. About the only two things that more people "know" about Patrick is that he was Irish and Roman Catholic. In truth, he was neither. He was British, and he belonged to the autonomous Celtic church. Although Patrick is the most famous person of his age, the real man has been buried in a cloud of myths. Myths such as:He used the shamrock to explain the Trinity....

When Christianity was young, the focus was on Jesus Christ and His kingdom, not theology. To be sure, there are foundational doctrines that Christians have always considered essential to the faith. But somehow the things considered essential have grown from a few sentences to a long list of theological tenets, many of which were unknown to the early Christians. In the beginning, Christians understood that the essence of Christianity was an obedient love-faith relationship with Jes...

If someone were to ask you what was the theme of Jesus' preaching, what would be your answer? Man's need for salvation? God's love for mankind? The new birth? To be sure, Jesus spoke about all of those things. And they're all essential truths. But none of them were the theme of His teaching. The theme of Jesus' message was the kingdom of God. Wherever He went, Jesus preached about the kingdom. The irony is that the message of the kingdom is almost totally missing f...

Although many books have been written about preaching and teaching, most of them are addressed to seminary-trained pastors. They're not aimed at the churches that don't use professionally schooled ministers. That's what is different about this book. The New Testament Christians had no seminaries, but raised up effective preachers and teachers. The Holy Spirit can use ordinary Christian men today to preach and teach just as He did back in the first century.Plain Speaking ta...

Jesus says, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." To be disciples of Jesus, we must deny ourselves, our families, and everything we own even our very lives. Following Jesus would seem to be one of the most challenging quests we can face.Yet, Jesus also tells us: "Come...

The product of nine years of research, In God We Don't Trust challenges much of what most of us learned in school about the founding of America and the American Revolution. Bercot's well-documented findings will surprise many people. Here are just a few of the surprising facts the book reveals: Tobacco saved Jamestown and became the economic basis for many of the Southern states. Rum distilleries were one of the main industries of Puritan New England. Puritan New England dominated...

During the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. (100-300), Christianity was an illegal, persecuted religion throughout most of the civilized world. In many ways, this was a blessing. That’s because persecution culled out superficial Christians and those who were not willing to make sacrifices for Christ. It produced thousands of fervent Christians who loved God with their whole hearts, souls, and minds. These were men and women who scorned both persecution and the alluring pleasures of the world.

In God We Don’t TrustA Look at the Founding of American in the Light of Jesus’ TeachingsHere is the compelling narrative of the founding of America – told from a perspective that few people have ever heard. That perspective is the Kingdom of God.Our currency declares, “In God We Trust.” But did the American colonists truly trust in God in the founding of America?For example, the Scriptures tell us, “The authorities that exist are ap...