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Because if the tomb is empty – then anything is possible.
In his first book, Joby Martin, Lead Pastor of The Church of Eleven22, dives deep into scripture and traces the story of salvation by highlighting the seven mountains throughout scripture where God manifests himself. As he describes each encounter with God, Martin shows us how the interaction on each mountain laid the groundwork for the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, and shows what God revealed about Himself in the process. He illuminates seven familiar passages, unveiling how God’s plan for Christ’s sacrifice is threaded throughout scripture, and shows why Christ’s resurrection—impossible, unbelievable—means that nothing is too hard for our God. Ultimately, he asks readers, Do you live every day of your life as if the tomb is empty…or as though Jesus is still hanging on that cross?
Written with New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin, If the Tomb is Empty is an insightful and spiritually rich examination of what the miracle of Christ’s resurrection means for all of us.
Combining heart-wrenching emotion with edge-of-your-seat tension,
New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin explores the true
power of sacrificial love. Murphy Shepherd has made a career of
finding those no one else could-survivors of human trafficking. His
life's mission is helping others find freedom . . . but then the
nightmare strikes too close to home. When his new wife, her
daughter, and two other teenage girls are stolen, Murphy is left
questioning all he has thought to be true. With more dead ends than
leads, he has no idea how to find his loved ones. After everything
is stripped away, love is what remains. Hope feels lost, but Murphy
is willing to expend his last breath trying to bring them home.
Part of the Murphy Shepherd series: Book One: The Water Keeper Book
Two: The Letter Keeper Book Three: Coming June 2022! Full-length
novel Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also by Charles
Martin: The Mountain Between Us, Send Down the Rain, Long Way Gone,
When Crickets Cry
Experience the Bible come to life before your eyes as New York
Times bestselling author Charles Martin uses his storyteller's
imagination to present the life of Jesus in a way that will engage
your faith in new ways. This collection of more than twenty short
stories, compiled from Martin's books What If It's True? and They
Turned the World Upside Down, draws you into a deeper understanding
and love for the Savior. Son of Man presents key moments from the
life and ministry of Jesus Christ and explores the lives of His
followers in descriptive, novelistic words. This unique collection:
Fosters a stronger appreciation, love, and respect for Jesus Covers
themes including rejection, service, unconditional love, and
forgiveness Uses the lives of the disciples as inspiration to be
the light in a dark world Shows how the disciples' same
world-changing faith is still around today Son of Man is perfect
for someone who loves Christian fiction. Known for his beloved
lyrical style, in this paperback edition Martin illuminates key
moments from Scripture with stories such as "Where the Father's
Love Found Him," "Betrayed," and "The Borrowed Tomb." Martin's
writing offers a way to see how Jesus' life and the lives of His
disciples revealed an unwavering confidence in the power and
presence of God.
Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an
island, tending the grounds of a church with no parishioners, and he’s
dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the
loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he
realizes.
When he pulls a beautiful woman named Summer out of Florida’s
Intracoastal Waterway, Murph’s mission to lay his mentor to rest at the
end of the world takes a dangerous turn. Drawn to Summer, and desperate
to find her missing daughter, Murph is pulled deeper and deeper into
the dark and dangerous world of modern-day slavery.
With help from some unexpected new friends, including a faithful
Labrador he plucks from the ocean and an ex-convict named Clay, Murph
must race against the clock to locate the girl before he is consumed by
the secrets of his past—and the ghosts who tried to bury them.
With Charles Martin’s trademark lyricism and poignant prose, The Water
Keeper is at once a tender love story, a heartrending search for
freedom, and a reminder that the needs of the one outweigh those of the
ninety-nine.
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“Here’s the catch—even if I make it out of here alive, I need
a reason to breathe again.†When MacThomas Pockets finished his
last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to
consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t
working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A.
to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue. It didn’t
take long for Pockets to realize there were two Joe Sues: The Joe
Sue the public saw with her perfect life and her Hollywood husband.
And the private Joe Sue: the one with the traumatic youth that no
amount of pills could cover up, who desperately wanted a child of
her own. Even after their paths diverged, he continued to track Joe
Sue’s life. Only a few would notice when the bottom fell out. But
he did. And that’s when he stepped in. The latest novel from New
York Times bestselling author Charles Martin travels from Hollywood
to rural Montana as one man answers the question: How far would you
go—really—to save someone you love? Suspenseful, emotion-filled
contemporary fiction Stand-alone novel Includes discussion
questions for book clubs Also by Charles Martin: The Mountains
Between Us, The Water Keeper, and Chasing Fireflies
“Because you’re worth rescue.â€Â The unrelenting third
installment in the Murphy Shepherd series from New York
Times bestselling author Charles Martin. Murphy
Shepherd’s last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life.
He’d like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and
daughters for a while. But Bones’s nemesis must be stopped, and
there are so many who still need to know they are worth
rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open,
Murphy is tested at every turn—both physically and mentally. Then
the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and friend is taken.
Gone without a trace. Murphy lives by the mantra that love
always shows up. But how can he rescue Bones when he has no
leads? With heart-stopping clarity, The Record Keeper
explores the true cost of leaving the ninety-nine to find the
one. Part of the Murphy Shepherd series: Book One: The
Water Keeper Book Two:Â The Letter Keeper Book
Three:Â The Record Keeper Full-length novel Includes
discussion questions for book clubs Also by Charles
Martin: The Mountain Between Us, Chasing
Fireflies, When Crickets Cry, Long Way Gone
Down Where My Love Lives is a bittersweet yet triumphant love
story-a tale of one man's journey through the darkness of despair
and into the light of hope. Together in one volume, read Dylan and
Maggie's love story in bestselling author Charles Martin's debut
novel and its sequel. The Dead Don't Dance: In a sleepy rural town
in South Carolina, Dylan and Maggie Styles are a young couple in
love, preparing eagerly for the birth of their first son. But
events take a tragic turn in the delivery room, and their child is
delivered stillborn. When Maggie hemorrhages and slips into a coma,
Dylan slips into what can only be described as a walking coma,
holding vigil at his beloved wife's bedside. Usually tough and
self-reliant, an outdoorsman and a farmer, Dylan finds that
everything he has known is suddenly thrown into doubt. Refusing to
give up on Maggie's recovery, a devastated Dylan takes a job as an
English professor in order to pay for Maggie's medical bills. Dylan
connects with his students despite himself and offers hope to
others amid his own disappointment and grief. As Dylan waits for
some change in Maggie's condition, he reflects on his life and
hers. Through friends and grace-filled moments of insight, Dylan
slowly begins to heal, but it will take a second tragedy-and an
anxious period of wrestling with God-to truly awaken him from his
stupor and open him up to a new life. Maggie: Life began again for
Dylan Styles when his beloved wife Maggie awoke from a coma. A coma
brought on by the intense two-day labor that resulted in
heartbreaking loss. In this poignant love story that is redolent
with Southern atmosphere, Dylan and Maggie must come to terms with
their past before they can embrace their future. Emotive Southern
fiction New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin's debut
novel and sequel in one volume Contains the complete Awakening
Series: The Dead Don't Dance and Maggie
Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully
captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale
of revenge and sacrifice. The Medea of Euripides is one of the
greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most
significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there
abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and
is willing to strike out against his new wife and family-even
slaughtering the sons she has born him. At its center is Medea
herself, a character who refuses definition: Is she a hero, a
witch, a psychopath, a goddess? All that can be said for certain is
that she is a woman who has loved, has suffered, and will stop at
nothing for vengeance. In this stunning translation, poet Charles
Martin captures the rhythms of Euripides' original text through
contemporary rhyme and meter that speak directly to modern readers.
An introduction by classicist and poet A.E. Stallings examines the
complex and multifaceted Medea in patriarchal ancient Greece.
Perfect in and out of the classroom as well as for theatrical
performance, this faithful translation succeeds like no other.
Years ago, novelist Charles Martin cracked open his Bible and began wrestling with a
few fundamental questions. He asked, “What if every single word of Scripture is
absolutely true and I can trust it? How do I respond? Something in me should
change, but what? How?” This book is the result of that exploration.
With the depth, sensitivity, and emotion that has made his novels beloved to millions,
Charles ignites our imaginations as to what the life, ministry, death, and resurrection
of Jesus Christ mean to us today. Charles asks, “What if dead and crucified Jesus
came back to life by the power of the Holy Spirit and is alive today? Right now. What
if that same Jesus, the One who walked out of the tomb shining like the sun, holding
the keys of death and hades, is alive in me. I write fiction for a living, and that’s
either the craziest thing I’ve ever heard or it’s the most important word ever spoken.
You and I have a King who did the unthinkable.” And the answers that his writer’s
imagination illuminate for us will change the way that we think about the gospel and
the way that we live because of it.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The Field Guide for Small Group Leaders provides basic training and
support to help small group leaders succeed in the critical mission
of leading others toward spiritual growth and transformation. The
premise of serving as a small group leader sounds simple: Invite
people to join you in studying the Bible. But the real-world
implications of that role are incredibly complex. Today's small
group leaders are asked to function as semi-experts in theology,
psychology, evangelism, worship, apologetics, counseling,
education, and nutrition--all in service to God and His church.
Most of today's group leaders receive little or no training on how
to carry out this important work. They are told to "Go and make
disciples," then left to figure out the details on their own. Sam
O'Neal (a small group leader himself), wrote The Field Guide for
Small Group Leaders to help fellow leaders navigate this confusion
and map out a plan for successful, transformational, and rewarding
meetings. The Field Guide provides helpful information on:
Curriculum and planning. Learning styles. Icebreakers and learning
activities. Crafting discussion questions. Worship and prayer. What
to do when things don't go as planned. And more. Whether you lead a
small group, life group, or Sunday school class, this guide will
give you confidence and practical tools for fostering meaningful
connections, genuine community, and spiritual growth that so many
are desperate for.
The latest dazzling collection of poems from Charles Martin, a
modern poet working within the possibilities of traditional
measures. To be modern is to live not in a single era, but in a
churn of new technologies, deep history, myth, literary traditions,
and contemporary cultural memes. In Future Perfect, Charles
Martin's darkly comic new collection, the poet explores our time
and the times that come before and after, which we inhabit and
cultivate in memory and imagination. Through poems that play with
form and challenge expectation, Martin examines the continuities
that persist from time immemorial to the future perfect. Sensitive
to the traces left behind by the lives of his characters, Martin
follows their tracks, reflections, echoes, and shadows. In "From
Certain Footprints Found at Laetoli," an ancient impression
preserved in volcanic ash conjures up a family scene three million
years past. In "The Last Resort of Mr. Kees" and "Mr. Kees Goes to
a Party," Martin adopts the persona of the vanished poet Weldon
Kees to reimagine his disappearance. "Letter from Komarovo, 1962"
retells the tense real-life meeting between Anna Akhmatova and
Robert Frost a year before their nations almost destroyed one
another. And in the titular sonnet sequence that ends the book,
Martin conjures a childhood in the Bronx under the shadow of the
mushroom cloud of nuclear war as the perfected future supplanting
the present. Introducing Buck Rogers to Randall Jarrell and
combining new translations or reinterpretations of works by Ovid,
G. G. Belli, Octavio Paz, and Euripides, Future Perfect further
establishes Charles Martin as a master of invention.
From New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin comes a
radical retelling of the prodigal son story. Cooper O'Connor
thought he could make it big as a musician, but he promptly lost it
all. Can he repair his relationship with the father who never
stopped calling him home? At the age of eighteen, musician and
songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and
drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a
six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his
wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he
falls in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song.
But just as he realizes his love for Daley, Cooper faces a tragedy
that threatens his life as well as his career. With nowhere else to
go, he returns home to the remote Colorado mountains, searching for
answers about his father and his faith. When Daley shows up on his
street corner twenty years later, he wonders if it's too late to
tell her the truth about his past-and if he is ready to face it
himself. Praise for Long Way Gone: "Cooper and Daley's story will
make you believe that even broken instruments have songs to offer
when they're in the right hands. Charles Martin never fails to ask
and answer the questions that linger deep within all of us. In this
beautifully told story of a prodigal coming home, readers will find
the broken and mended pieces of their own hearts."-Lisa Wingate,
New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
Stand-alone novel USA TODAY bestseller and Christy Award Book of
the Year 2017 Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also by
Charles Martin: The Letter Keeper, The Mountain Between Us, Send
Down the Rain, and When Crickets Cry
When paramedics find a malnourished six-year-old boy near a burning
car that holds a dead woman, they wonder who he is-and why he won't
speak. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain
Between Us comes a story of self-discovery, healing, and hope. On a
stifling summer day, an old Chevy Impala ignored the warning
signals and was annihilated by the oncoming train. What no one
realized until much later was that the driver had paused just
before entering the tracks and kicked a small boy out of the car. A
small boy with broken glasses who is clutching a notebook with all
his might . . . but who never speaks. Chase Walker was one of the
lucky ones. He was in foster care as a child, but he finally ended
up with a family who loved him and cared for him. Now, as a
journalist for the local paper, he's moved on and put the past
behind him. But when he's assigned the story of this young boy,
painful, haunting questions about his own childhood begin to rise
to the surface. And as Chase Walker discovers, learning the truth
about who you are can be as elusive-and as magical-as chasing
fireflies on a summer night. Praise for Chasing Fireflies:
"Colorful, memorable characters; Southern regional flavor that's
drop-dead accurate; and lyrical, intelligent writing make Chasing
Fireflies an exceptionally good read." -Aspiring Retail "Martin
understands the power of story and he uses it to alter the souls
and lives of both his characters and his readers . . ."-Patti
Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author Full-length
emotive Southern fiction Includes discussion questions for book
clubs Also by Charles Martin: The Water Keeper, The Mountain
Between Us, Send Down the Rain, and When Crickets Cry
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