Religious Mysteries

Welcome to Stellar’s Ford. In the fir-scented tranquility of this rural community, revenge and redemption wage a war of the heart. Will past and present wounds rip apart the fabric of a family and the serenity of a dying way of life? Brad Stanley is Stellar’s Ford born-and-bred. Years ago, his friends left for college and big careers. He stayed behind and ran Greenwood Timber, the family mill. Brad barely gave his solitary life a second thought until the day he discovered a sixteen-year-old daughter he never knew existed. Trying to be a dad while keeping the mill from going belly-up, is...

“A powerful story of a grieving man's search for spiritual solace that touches deeply into our hearts. The introduction alone contains hidden treasures.” Rosamonde Ikshvàku Miller, Gnostic Bishop “A moving story—I was glad to read it.” Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels “...very well written, extremely intriguing, and conveys a huge amount of information on Gospel criticism and Gnosticism. A remarkable, if mystifying, work!” Robert M Price, author of The Reason Driven Life “An extremely personal book and an audacious journey into heresy. An intricate detective ...

Who are we? What is our place in this vast and ever-evolving universe? Where do science and spirituality meet? If you’ve pondered these questions, you’re not alone. Join some of the most spiritually curious and renowned minds of our time for an exploration into the mystery of being. From founders of the Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference, Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo, On the Mystery of Being brings together an array of visionary spiritual leaders, psychologists, philosophers, scientists, teachers, authors, and healers to celebrate and explore what it means to be human.

If there is one thing Katie never thought she would do, it was walk through something called the "Door of the Dead." During a class field trip to visit the monastery of the Poor Clares, Katie is unexpectedly swept up into her next Chime Travelers adventure.

Can you lose a life without dying? Peter Lodge has. His life as he knows it: the cars, the wealth, the women, and the affluence all go up in flames – and he has to watch them burn. It all begins with one careless night and a stinging accusation. The life he once lived was stripped away, to no fault of his own. At the same time, Peter Lodge finally finds real peace and joy in meager places, with a woman who doesn’t know of the skeletons in his cupboard. He finds the one woman he is willing to finally settle down for; Peter Lodge finally found love. When Brenda Jameson met the brown-eyed ...

In a world of growing tyranny, social scoring systems, oppressive censorship, and persecution of the three Abrahamic religions, archeologist Seth Heshel makes a discovery. It happens in the ruins of ancient Babylon. The world will never be the same. Satan sees it. The principalities and powers see it too. They both move to attack Seth and his team before they can show their discovery to the world. Theology Professor Galen Kohl dreams a dream of Ancient Babylon, waking him out of an alcoholic stupor. The world has taken away his church, his faith, and his fiancé. God wasn’t giving up on ...

THERE are two motives which have influenced us in the production of this little book. We have sought, on the one hand, to supply aids to devotion either for the use of the family or of the individual, and on the other, to furnish points of suggestion to the student who is a prospective preacher. Perhaps it may he thought that these two aims are incongruous, and it would be too much to hope that in both we have succeeded; yet devotion is not the absence of thought, and thought is not necessarily the absence of devotion. At all events, the presence in the mind of two so reactionary aims may ...

Minspi is a shortened form for Ministering Spirit. Angels do visit the earth. This book was inspired in part by an encounter with a human that I thought could not be human given the circumstances of the encounter. He posed a test to me sometime in 1979. In this book, this Ministering Spirit came to do something different. The way he recruited his human agents and the way he assisted them to accomplish their mission says a lot about how heaven assists us to fulfill the purposes of God in our lives. It is a work of Christian Fiction that makes for very interesting reading. It is based on ...

The protectors. They'll risk their lives to protect the woman in jeopardy. But will they risk their hearts? When the ex-wife scientist Colt Jarvis assumed left him for another man returns, his attraction to her flares. But he can’t trust her. During their brief marriage, she kept way too many secrets. She still does. For the past year, they’ve only seen each other during her visits to their children. Fiercely independent security expert Mirabella Jarvis didn’t choose to leave her husband and children. An accident followed by years of amnesia weren’t part of her plan. Slowly, she’s...

With a unique combination of research, interviews, personal experience, and theological reflection, author Matthew McGuire takes the listener on a journey to re-examine his or her presuppositions about the nature of the world we inhabit. Is this universe nothing more than Bertrand Russell's accidental collocations of atoms, or are there deeper, spiritual dimensions to the cosmos?

His family hates hers, and the feeling is mutual. Can love change it all? Fresh out of a relationship and job, Lorraine Rochefort returns to her hometown, planning to stay only long enough to patch things up with her estranged elder brother. There's just a minor obstacle—he's missing after an argument with Rio Lawrence. Then Rio, the handsome cowboy and now a helicopter pilot she'd once pined for from afar, knocks her off her feet and steals her breath away—literally. Bad blood already lingers between their families due to her mother’s rumored affair with his father before he died. ...

Chad Butner and his parents moved from the city and made their new home in the mountains of North Carolina. They now lived in a little valley called Deep Gap. Chad had to keep the reason of their move a secret from everyone in the valley. He soon discovered he was not the only one hiding secrets. This included a young mountain girl that quickly won his heart. Why did the Ghost of Deep Gap walk the mountains in the dark of night? Why did the people of Deep Gap whisper of a crazy woman that placed her dead baby in a moonshine jar? Was the baby the Ghost of Deep Gap that roamed the hills ...

There is very little that Lizzie Patterson wouldn’t do for those she cares about. That is especially true for her two neighbors in the quiet corner of the canyon that’s been her home for over fifty years and her refuge since she retired from the profession she loved but was more than ready to walk away from. Recently she’s accepted a role in a movie her first husband is producing after years of turning down all the other offers that came her way since her retirement. Many believe that her reason for doing so is because Clay Tobin has agreed to play the lead character in the same movie...

When Father Bredder gets involved with murder—Heaven only knows what will happen next… To solve two murders and find a missing diamond, Father Bredder must turn for help to a saint who has been dead for nearly 2,000 years. Named “A Red Badge Novel of Suspense” alongside Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Hugh Pentecost, The Father Bredder Mysteries, written by Leonard Wibberley under the pen name Leonard Holton, inspired a television show starring George Kennedy. The Father Bredder Mystery Series The Saint Maker A Pact with Satan Secret of the Doubting Saint Deliver Us from Wolves ...

As they silently make their way through the trees to the hidden refuge that Thomas Dyersen once found need of for his family centuries ago, Sara Merryn is grateful for its existence as the silence of the night erupts with the sounds that she has long buried in her memories.Storm Tide continues the ongoing story of family, friends, and strangers who come together at a time when the unknown is their greatest enemy…and their hidden sanctuary is their greatest defense. No matter that they have planned for this moment since the storm that first brought them together, and the siege of lawless ...

Who cares if you found the source to God?The Russians, Chinese, MI6 and the CIA would care. Why? Because it's the key to controlling everything. Two boys believe they've found the source. Now Barry Mackay must find them and their secret before it's too late. In the sanctity of the Shetland Islands, the mystery unravels. Secret agents come calling as all hell breaks loose. A novel that will revive or test your faith. You may never see life and death the same way again.

Julie Engstrom knows that her family needs something different…a different place, different people, different everything as they all struggle to deal with the loss that has changed their lives forever. The last thing she expected was a huge and unexpected windfall that would make it possible. Now she just needed to decide what to do and where to go.When she inadvertently came across an article that intrigued her and the photos that came with it drew her attention as little else had in weeks she had her answer. Before long, she and her family are on their way to a place that she never ...

Emma Fortier, a suspense author and former forensic psychologist with a haunted past, is thrust into a mystery when a cunning serial killer uses her books as inspiration to prey on young women in her hometown of Butte, Arizona. When her sister is one of his victims, Emma is pulled back into the chaotic world of criminal investigation. Detective Liam Harper with the Butte Sheriff’s Department is on the case. A seasoned investigator with a haunted past of his own, Liam hopes to solve the serial killer mystery before he can retire into the quiet life he desires. Drawn to Emma's strength and ...

On June 23, 1936, Edgar Cayce, the most renowned psychic of the 20th century and the father of holistic medicine, gave a life reading for Thomas Jefferson (T.J.) Davis, the two-day-old nephew of his secretary, Gladys Davis. In this reading, Cayce identified one of the child’s past lives as that of Thomas Jefferson, adding this stunning prediction - that he “may become more important in the affairs of the world than this entity in its previous experience has been to America - Thomas Jefferson”. This book examines all the reasons why that prediction never happened.

In Austin, Texas, burned-out attorney Robert Cole receives a mysterious call offering him millions to help those failed by the system. His first case leads him to Selina Ward, a disillusioned prosecutor, and together they search for a missing boy named Thomas Brandt. What begins as a missing child case rapidly spirals into something far more profound as Robert and Selina discover that Thomas carries a fragment of divine power within his DNA—a "Word" that entities beyond human comprehension desperately want to control. At the center of this cosmic conspiracy stands Silas Drake, a tech ...