Al Barrera

A celebrity culture, like ours, draws attention to big personalities, to massive ambitions, to "world-changing" strategies. Unfortunately, the same has been true in the church and the world of church planting. This raises some questions: What about the majority of church planters who belong to the normal? What about the ordinary? Is there a place for that guy? The Underdog Church-Planter takes on these questions. Each author is an underdog pastor speaking to underdog pastors, who plant and replant for God's glory and not their own. Looking to the Bible and offering practical counsel, they remind us all that personality, pedigree, charisma, and talent (or lack thereof) hardly limit God's work. Instead, there is real hope for God to do what He has always done-to use weak and humble underdogs to display His glory. Whether readers are questioning calling, hungry for change, or suffering skepticism, this book turns attention from fading celebrity to a King beyond compare. It is written that the Church would find freedom in confessing, "We are not enough, but Jesus is."

Dreams and nightmares are two sides of the same coin. After his twin sister kills herself, heroin becomes Aaron's only friend. With the end looming closer, he rediscovers the kingdom they shared as children, the other world hidden in the woods of Tennessee. But something dark has entered the Kingdom, and what might have been childhood fantasy has become horrifyingly real. As he explores the dream two children once shared, Aaron begins a mad journey to save the soul of the kingdom that once saved him. And maybe, to rescue the soul of the sister he couldn't protect in life.

Some call them killers--hard men from the other side of the planet sent to collect the heads of their enemies and make peace with a gun. Freedom follows, along with all of its problems. Choice, and a lack of it. A world without the easy answers that come from being in a uniform. And the space where the two worlds collide. Where a man tries to reconcile the person he's become with the one he was. A new kind of battlefield, where the ghosts of his past change everything he's ever known.

The old world is dead, and humanity struggles to survive in the shadows of the new one. Kyle, Sara, and Tim are scavengers, hiding in the remains of human civilization from the hungry things that destroyed it. Living on the few items that haven't rotted in the thirteen years since civilization was wiped out. But something has shown itself: A terrible creature that betrays an intelligence in the madness of the beings that rule the planet. When the group finds Kaylee, a little girl who claims to know of a safe haven somewhere in Tennessee, they embark on a desperate journey to find it. Memory and loss, depravity and salvation- their last run will put them face to face with horrors of both man and monsters the likes of which they've never seen.

Something ancient sleeps in the shadows of Umber Gardens. When Dr. Benjamin Kent is extended an invitation to work at a prestigious mental health facility, he thinks it's too good to be true. Ben soon realizes something is wrong at the Home. The darkness has eyes, and it's hungry. The line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, and soon Umber Gardens' dark secrets force Ben to question his family's safety-and his own sanity.