Edd Brown was labeled "the runt" when he was born on the cusp of the Great Depression. His grandfather dryly predicted that the boy would never amount to much. With the odds stacked against him, Edd would survive a lightning strike at age one, grow into a scrappy teenager in Dust Bowl Texas and go on to serve his country during World War II aboard a U.S. Navy fleet oiler dubbed the "Floating Service Station." His tough beginnings spurred Edd to pursue a full and challenging life in which he served a number of Baptist churches and associations, established a thriving state men's ministry in California, and traveled to the remotest parts of the world to serve others in the name of Jesus. In Only God Knows: A Journey of Love, Faith and Joy, the first half of a two-volume autobiography, Edd Brown offers a deeply personal account of the "blessed life" he has known as God's servant, husband to his beloved Flo and father to four children.

Only God Knows

Biographies & Memoirs

Brown, Edd L

Memoirs

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Excommunicated: 11 Steps to Church Revitalization

More than forty years ago, Danny Burnley was formally disassociated -- excommunicated -- from his home church. His "crime"? As a young deacon, he went to the pastor and asked him to prayerfully consider holding a reconciliation service to help heal the ongoing friction that existed between the pastor and the deacons. Dismissal from his church's fellowship was "the worst thing and the best thing" that had ever happened to him. It was the worst thing because it was like a divorce that tore apart a family, but it was the best thing because it ignited in Burnley a God-given desire to help struggling churches, which he has been busy doing for the last four decades. In Excommunicated: 11 Steps to Church Revitalization, Burnley offers the lessons he has learned in helping churches battle against ineffectiveness. Through his ministry, he has helped bring churches back from the brink of closure.

Burnley, Danny

Religion & Spirituality

Moments after Jack Mahaffey preached his final sermon at Hat Yai Baptist Church in Southern Thailand, a man asked him if the three decades he had spent as a missionary had been worth it. Mahaffey, who was raised in a mill village in South Carolina and received Jesus Christ as his savior at age twelve, said, “Yes, it has been worth it, and I thank God for letting us live among you and learn from you for those many years!” Mahaffey believed he and his wife, Oneida, were exactly where God wanted them to be, “and we never doubted that.” Now, in Worth It All, Jack Mahaffey tells the gripping story of his and Oneida’s missionary journey — complete with river baptisms, devastating floods and a harrowing kidnapping by a band of armed men — while infusing his narrative with the deep love he felt for the Thai believers whose faithfulness became his inspiration.

Worth It All

Mahaffey, Jack

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