Brian Sanders

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The world's most infamous drug trafficker, Carlos Falcon, has hidden his identity for decades. He has now hatched a nefarious plan which had been years in the making. He wants to cripple the industry that has made him wealthy and to put the man of his choosing in the White House. As his first step, Falcon has taken hostage the niece of the ambitious U. S. Senator Justin Winfield and twelve other members of a medical mission team working in rural Mexico. With the Senator and his family in the grip of paralyzing fear and his presidential dreams threatened, the Senator places all his worldly hopes on the ability of a connected associate, Jack Delaney, to help fulfill Falcon's bizarre and murderous demands. Once a high-flying entrepreneur, Jack's idyllic oceanside life is unraveling due to a series of financial misfortunes. Desperate to hide his financial demise from his supportive wife, Jack accepts the Senator's request for his help simply for the money. However, once he discovers that one of the hostages is a lifelong friend, missionary Charlie Jacobs, this mission becomes personal for Jack. Very personal. With the clock ticking and the lives of thirteen people hanging in the balance, Jack hurls himself into this dark underworld to save the hostages.

She's on a mission to wake up the world.For 11-year-old Suzy Schuster, life feels like a bad dream. The polluted police state she lives in is distressing enough. But, to make matters worse, her parents went missing a few years ago under mysterious circumstances. Then, one fateful day, she encounters a curious group of youths known as the Pajama Gang. Displaying cool pajamas and even cooler superpowers, they teach Suzy that what feels like a bad dream actually is-the entire world has fallen asleep and is unknowingly trapped in the nightmare of a demon called Phantos. Armed with flying pillows and magic sand, Suzy and her new friends must fight back against Phantos as they search for the gateway back to Reality. If they succeed, Suzy just might find her parents on the other side... READ this book if you like: Cozy pajamasSaving the world in your cozy pajamasPhilosophical musingsBlue lynxes in orange bathrobes that dish out philosophical musingsTruth, love, and goodness

What If the Church Truly Empowered People to Engage in God's Mission? Something extraordinary has been happening in Tampa, Florida. A new expression of the church has been quietly growing. It's something of an experiment, but over the last ten years the church has been validating its ideas with sustained and growing results. At The Underground, being the church is not focused around a weekly gathering or church programs. It's about empowering individuals to respond to God's call to ministry and mission, especially to the poor and disadvantaged in our midst. While many churches talk about discerning calling and engaging in mission, very few are structured to make this their ministry focus. Underground Church is a new vision for the church rooted in its biblical mission to share the love of God and serve the poor. Sanders explores how to make structural changes, how to think about leadership, how to fund ministries, and how to truly engage people in God's mission. Filled with creative insights, he explains what it means to center the mission of the church around the callings of individuals to outward ministry - whether that involves leading Bible studies in the workplace, feeding the homeless, or working to free women and children from sex trafficking. This book will both tell the inspiring story of a church that is rethinking what church looks like while also outlining and uncovering the principles that transfer for every church and Christian community that hopes for more. It's the true story of a 10-year experiment that unpacks the possibilities of a church structured and streamlined for mission.

Ready to leave church? Brian Sanders reflects on the things that whittle away at our trust in the church as an institution, then explores what it means, at the heart of it all, to be church.