Is God calling you to replant a dying church? God is raising up leaders across North America for the difficult work of replanting struggling, declining churches for his glory. How can you be confident that you are one of these? Over the course of 30 days, Bob Bickford and Mark Hallock will lead you to explore the work of a replanting pastor. And, each day of this journey is designed to help you humbly and honestly discern whether this challenging yet God-honoring ministry is for you. While God isn’t calling every pastor to be a replanter, He is calling some. He might be calling you.

Am I a Replanter?: 30 Days of Discerning God's Call (Replant Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Hallock, Mark

Bickford, Bob

Christian Books & Bibles

Acoma Press

We serve a mighty God. A kind, gracious and merciful Lord. And the truth is, our God has not given up on many declining and struggling churches that many of us would have given up on a long time ago. He loves these churches and receives much glory when bringing them back to life and vibrancy. And the amazing thing is that He invites us to be a part of it! The Lord is calling us as His people, as partners in the Gospel, to lock arms and fight, by His Spirit, to stop the trend of dying churches in our communities together. In the pages that follow you’ll find biblical evidence for church partnerships, practical instruction on how to partner, the commitments required of partners and cautions that could hinder partnerships.

Pathways to Partnership: How You and Your Church Can Join the Replanting Movement

During the summer of 1946, a group of children play a kissing game behind a general store in rural Georgia. It's just kids having fun, until one innocent kiss leads to the brutal beating death of a ten-year-old boy. The horrific hate crime shakes an entire town. It spawns a series of murders, and a secret that is hidden for generations. Mike Latta follows the story back into the heat and humidity of a sixty-five-year-old Georgia summer, back to dirt roads, wooden bridges, and muddy-water fishing holes, back to a single kiss that has killed, and killed again. It's a kiss that has slept for decades, but now it's awake. Learning its secret may cost Mike his life. Fiction inspired by the real life Emmett Till murder, Deadly Kiss is the story of loves that won't stay lost and ghosts that just won't sleep.

Deadly Kiss

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Black Opal Books

Santa Teresa, California, 1947: P. I. Nathaniel Crowe has extricated his client, Charlene Cleveland, from a dangerous marriage to a dangerous man, a local hood, Sal Cleveland. Her husband grants the divorce, but then runs her car off the road and shoots her. Crowe is shaken by news of the murder. He resolves to get justice for Charlene, even if it means working for free. He crosses paths with the beautiful and exotic Annie Kahlo, an eccentric artist, who has an old grudge against the gangster. Annie knows a few secrets about Cleveland; secrets that might help Crowe bring the kingpin down. Despite all of his better instincts, Crowe finds himself falling for Annie...hard. ‘Girls in Pink’ is neon, wet streets, smoke, venetian blinds and ghosts in pink. It’s echoes of Bogart and Bacall, the summer of 1947... LA noir with a fresh, contemporary feel.

Girls in Pink

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Taylor and Seale Publishers

What if the love of your life was a ghost? What if you had to make a choice?Hollow Lake has a legend. The locals say that the spirit of Chloe Hunter, a teenager drowned in 1980, haunts its waters. She has been seen every year since, especially during late autumn when she appears as an eerie figure swimming in near-icy waters. Nick Horan knows the legend, but he doesn't believe in ghosts . . . until late one night, when he sees Chloe as she wades out of the cold lake. As beautiful as she is terrifying, the vision stirs something inside him before she vanishes into the dark woods. Nick has another problem: he's on a collision course with a murderer, and her ghost is in the way.Chloe isn't from here. She's a doorway to somewhere else, and he might just follow her anywhere.

A Song for Chloe

Sometimes secrets are too big to live with. Sometimes dying is a relief.Beatrice Stone came to the west coast young and delectable, with high hopes and big plans for a long career on the silver screen. It hasn't worked out. She has a secret--she loves someone she isn't allowed to. It's a love that's forbidden, and it ruins her. Pretty dreams don't always come true, and she descends into the streets, living for the next bottle of gin. A prostitute and a thief, she gets by any way she can. She steals something without knowing how valuable it is, and the people she stole it from want it back badly enough to kill her.The last man Beatrice Stone ever propositions is private eye Nate Crowe. He turns her down, but something about her touches him. He gives her ve bucks and watches her walk away, not knowing that she's going to haunt him, or that he's going to haunt her murderers.Crowe has a secret of his own. The love of his life is an eccentric artist; the beautiful, exotic Annie Kahlo, who died in a ery crash at the end of a police chase. She's earned a trip to the gas chamber, but nobody is looking to execute a corpse. Annie isn't dead, though, and she's more than a little crazy. She has a gun in her purse, a strong sense of right and wrong, and her own quick way of dealing with injustice. The worst people never see her coming.Scented with cinnamon and suntan oil, soaked in neon and bourbon, Hau Tree Green is the sequel to Girls in Pink. From the sleazy beach motels on Cabrillo Boulevard to the gated, palm-shaded mansions in Montelindo, this is southern California in the winter of 1947, fresh, real and colorful as today.

Hau Tree Green

Taylor and Seale Publishing

A Blueberry Moon for Corah

Paranormalice Press, LLC

Love letters, born from high school dances and stereoscopic slides of toddlerhood, Ferris wheels and suntan oil, the streets of Hollywood and Toronto, 1980s music, driving too fast, Hershey bars and bottles of Molson Golden ale, first real kisses and broken hearts. Our eleventh birthday parties, our first cars, our true loves, and our monsters.Getting old. Falling in love. A dash of each, and all together.Letters to all of us, from all of us--the things we remember and the things we've lost

Dear Ghost: Fragments and Letters

Remember when you were little?Remember when there were monsters under your bed and unseen things lived in your closet? You heard them at night, even if nobody else did. Remember when everyone you loved-your mom and dad, your grandfather, the impossible crush who sat across the class from you, your dog-was going to last forever and never die? Remember birthdays? Remember when every Christmas was an eternity away, and every day was a perfect surprise when you walked out the front door? It was all beautiful and terrifying, in ways that it hasn't been for a long time.Remember magic? They told you true love can't last forever and monsters aren't real. You believed them and you based everything on it, so you let your world go black-and-white. Come back.Love letters to all of us, from all of us-the things we remember and the things we've lost.

Love, Ghost: Letters from Sunset and Vine

Summertime 1948, and Santa Teresa, California overflows with cold bourbon and hot neon. Billie Holiday floats from open windows, the Mills Brothers are headlining at the Montelindo Hotel, and the beach roller coaster never stops. The tourist crowd smells like sweat and suntan lotion. The sky is gold, the swimming pools are blue, but in dark alleys and behind closed doors, monsters do their worst. Private eye Nate Crowe knows a little bit about loving when it's too late to be loved back. He learned a long time ago that some ghosts don't wear white, and some things can't be fixed. Annie Kahlo is back. She has a gun in her purse, and she's ready to snap. White Rabbit Hop is a taxicab ride back to dancing on tiles, Roi-Tan cigars, gin on ice, east coast baseball on the radio, and mermaids with bubble hoses. Bring a nickel with you, in case you need a payphone.

WHITE RABBIT HOP

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