Into the Darkness takes a painfully raw look into the shattered heart of a grieving mother, the vengeful soul of a bitter pastor, the wretched mind of a drug-addicted murderer, and the resurrected spirit of an ageless princess. Reviewers came away with “powerful insight into spiritual matters”. This reading is “gut wrenching” but the light of our Lord shines brightest in the darkest of times in a sinful world.
Chapter 1: Picking Up My Angel
Chapter 2: Why Has Thou Forsaken Me?
Chapter 3: A Walk in Paradise
Chapter 4: My Little Girl
Chapter 5: Special Day
Chapter 6: Born Again
Chapter 7: Stranger in the Night
Chapter 8: We Will Never Be Happy Together
Chapter 9: Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold
Chapter 10: He Causes the Rain to Fall on the Just and Unjust Alike
Old Woman continues the theme of the majesty of what Jesus Christ has promised in the yet to come shining through unlikely hues into a sin-cursed existence. It begins with a dying woman giving her last penny to her Lord but soon blossoms into a celebration of the Christian life. The fate of the old woman, or ‘young’ woman who has yet to begin her Real Life, is left open for the imagination. Revisit the grandeur of the last days of a saint’s enduring life as seen through the eyes of eternity.
Coloring Book is an “enchanting story” of a little girl with great faith. Things begin innocently but build towards an “unusual and touching ending”. The “conclusion is amazing” and readers “could not help but wonder if this was a true story”.
Chapter 1: A Mother’s Greatest Fear
Chapter 2: Sunrise of Innocence
Chapter 3: I Place My Trust in Thee
Chapter 4: In Him, All Things Are Possible
Chapter 5: Going to Be With the Lord
Chapter 6: A Little Girl’s Gethsemene
Chapter 7: Dear Jesus, Let This Cup Pass From Me, Love Kelsey
Readers found Suffering’s Riddles “very insightful”. Suffering in the fallen world will continue till the end of time, but we can face our pain, be humbled by it, and use it to know a God of unimaginable love.
Chapter 1: Pain Accompanies Me All the Days of My Life
Chapter 2: The Greatest Saints Have Been Elevated Through Suffering
Chapter 3: Hell Begins at the First Sin and Ends at the Last Rejection
Chapter 4: The Sharper the Pain, the More Proof of God
Under a dim light in the crew’s quarters, within the somber atmosphere of the ship’s mess hall, and between bouts of mortal combat, two marines anguish over the significance of war and how the suffering of millions ties in with Scriptural doctrines of death, Hell, Divine love and salvation. Intermixed with heavy theological and philosophical debate is the main character’s war-induced investigation of his tormented soul. There, he finds the demons of the unseen world fighting to take control before the arrival of the ‘mighty hurricane’ in this last hour of choice. Spirits of Iwo Jima is the most “thought provoking” of the stories and I believe, the most inspirational. Believers and non-believers have been “enlightened” by its theology and “transformed” by its message. This story spans lifetimes and is “epic in scope from the standpoint of the human heart”.
Chapter 1: Foxhole Friendship (60 Hours Before Battle)
Chapter 2: Blood Island Shrouded in Fog
Chapter 3: Hours Before Midnight in a Time of War
Chapter 4: Two Marines Gethsemene
Chapter 5: Death Comes to Us All (50 Hours Before Battle)
Chapter 6: All I Have Gained Will Be Lost (37 Hours Before Battle)
Chapter 7: It Is Appointed Unto Men Once to Die, but After This the Judgment
Chapter 8: Midnight on the Waters of Good and Evil
Chapter 9: Sermon on the Battleship (23 Hours Before Battle)
Chapter 10: Unwrapping the Universe (21 Hours Before Battle)
Chapter 11: Birth of Evil
Chapter 12: Secrets of the Pacific (20 Hours Before Battle)
Chapter 13: God Infiltrating Space-Time Incognito (12 Hours Before Battle)
Chapter 14: The Truth Shall Set Us Free
Chapter 15: Last Words Before Battle
Chapter 16: Uncommon Valor
Chapter 17: American Flag Flapping in the Sulfur Winds
Chapter 18: Last Conversation
Chapter 19: Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War
Chapter 20: Our Friendship Will Echo in Eternity
Chapter 21: I Have Fought the Good Fight, I Have Finished the Race, I Have Kept the Faith