Why a Book on Elijah and Elisha? Because Christians today confront the same issues Elijah and Elisha did: strong spiritual attacks from evil powers operating in the world, the temptation to sacrifice faith through compromise, and the tendency to concentrate on form rather than essence in spiritual life. Because Elijah and Elisha dealt with the key issues of the faith: Christian formation through listening and obeying God, true solitude, prayer, living by faith, compassion, justice, single-minded and wholehearted devotion to God, and evangelism and mission. Pneuma Springs Bible Resources is a ministry of Youth With A Mission's Antioch Institute for International Ministries (www.ywam-aiim.org) designed to produce Bible study materials that equip disciples of Jesus Christ to know the truth in which they stand and to enable them to be God's instruments to extend the Kingdom of God throughout the world. Other available resources include the following books by David E. Ross: A Table Before Me (Xulon Press 2007), Out of the House of Fear, Into the House of Love (Korea YWAM Publishing, www.ywam.co.kr, 2002), and God Loves North Korea (Korea YWAM Publishing, 1999). David E. Ross is a Presbyterian (PCUSA) pastor who together with his wife, Ellen, have more than fifty years of missionary experience and founded Youth With A Mission Korea and the Antioch Institute for International Ministries in Monroe, Washington. Their multi-cultural ministry includes teaching and writing, mentoring long-term missionaries, mobilizing and training Koreans living outside Korea in the diaspora, and working for reconciliation between North and South Korea for the sake of world evangelization.

A Table before me: The Meditating Christian reveals God as the Living God who has spoken to His people definitively through Jesus Christ and who continues to speak daily through His Word. God prepares a table before us each day, where He sits with us and feeds us His Word. The secret of meditation is that we do not have to force our entry into God's Word. God delights to speak to all who will listen. He only requires that we listen, by opening ourselves to Him as He speaks, by focusing on the words that we read, and by allowing His Spirit to plant those words in our innermost being, just as a farmer plants seeds in the springtime. The result will be a transformed prayer life, deeper communion with God and a new joy in participating in God's redeeming work throughout the world. The Korean edition of this book is a best seller in Korea, and translation has begun on the Chinese edition. David and Ellen Ross are Presbyterians who have served as missionaries to the Korean people for over forty-five years. Co-founders of Youth With A Mission Korea, and The Antioch Institute for International Ministries, their present ministry includes teaching and writing, providing pastoral care for long-term, cross-cultural missionaries, and ministry to North Korea. David is the author of two books on North Korea as well as numerous Bible study manuals.

Why a Book on Elijah and Elisha? Because Christians today confront the same issues Elijah and Elisha did: strong spiritual attacks from evil powers operating in the world, the temptation to sacrifice faith through compromise, and the tendency to concentrate on form rather than essence in spiritual life. Because Elijah and Elisha dealt with the key issues of the faith: Christian formation through listening and obeying God, true solitude, prayer, living by faith, compassion, justice, single-minded and wholehearted devotion to God, and evangelism and mission. Pneuma Springs Bible Resources is a ministry of Youth With A Mission's Antioch Institute for International Ministries (www.ywam-aiim.org) designed to produce Bible study materials that equip disciples of Jesus Christ to know the truth in which they stand and to enable them to be God's instruments to extend the Kingdom of God throughout the world. Other available resources include the following books by David E. Ross: A Table Before Me (Xulon Press 2007), Out of the House of Fear, Into the House of Love (Korea YWAM Publishing, www.ywam.co.kr, 2002), and God Loves North Korea (Korea YWAM Publishing, 1999). David E. Ross is a Presbyterian (PCUSA) pastor who together with his wife, Ellen, have more than fifty years of missionary experience and founded Youth With A Mission Korea and the Antioch Institute for International Ministries in Monroe, Washington. Their multi-cultural ministry includes teaching and writing, mentoring long-term missionaries, mobilizing and training Koreans living outside Korea in the diaspora, and working for reconciliation between North and South Korea for the sake of world evangelization.

A Table before me: The Meditating Christian reveals God as the Living God who has spoken to His people definitively through Jesus Christ and who continues to speak daily through His Word. God prepares a table before us each day, where He sits with us and feeds us His Word. The secret of meditation is that we do not have to force our entry into God's Word. God delights to speak to all who will listen. He only requires that we listen, by opening ourselves to Him as He speaks, by focusing on the words that we read, and by allowing His Spirit to plant those words in our innermost being, just as a farmer plants seeds in the springtime. The result will be a transformed prayer life, deeper communion with God and a new joy in participating in God's redeeming work throughout the world. The Korean edition of this book is a best seller in Korea, and translation has begun on the Chinese edition. David and Ellen Ross are Presbyterians who have served as missionaries to the Korean people for over forty-five years. Co-founders of Youth With A Mission Korea, and The Antioch Institute for International Ministries, their present ministry includes teaching and writing, providing pastoral care for long-term, cross-cultural missionaries, and ministry to North Korea. David is the author of two books on North Korea as well as numerous Bible study manuals.