Back CoverDo you know that your Heavenly Father knows and cares for you in every aspect of your life? He never gives a task that is impossible or that cannot be accomplished without His help. He never allows you to go through a trial where He can’t help you. There’s no sin that he cannot conquer in your life. Yet too many times we look up to Him and say, “I can’t.” If God is your God, you most certainly can! God’s children are “more than conquerors through him that loved us.” (Roma...

When I was a child, my grandma taught the children's Sunday School class. The missionary stories with flannel graphs always grabbed my attention. Later in life, when my wife and I first got married, we would ride down the road on deputation reading missionary biographies out loud. They excited me and gave me a passion to see God do some of the same things as the men and women we read about. I firmly believed that if God did miraculous works in these missionaries of the past, how could He n...

The Bible is the most accurate and proven book of all times. It is in the Bible where we find out about life, work, marriage, friendship, money, and love. God teaches about every subject, and leadership is certainly one. We see leadership taught clearly by way of principle, command, and example. Yet God's way of doing things is not always how we would guess or imagine. In God's economy, to be greatest is to be servant, to live is to die, to receive is to give... seems opposite of what we w...

In both life and ministry it is very easy to let discouragement and circumstances beat you. We must make a daily choice to get the victory that Christ gives to each of us. We don't have to just survive our life, our marriage, or our ministry. We can THRIVE because He helps us overcome the greatest battles! I have learned through learning a language, planting churches, and training national leadership that life isn't always going to go the way we plan, but we can, with the Lord's help, not ...

Marriage is one of the greatest institutions ever created by God, but the devil wants to make it one of the worst. Marriage is where you can experience the greatest happiness, success, and fun. Sadly most marriages experience only disappointments, frustration, and pain. Do not just endure your marriage; enjoy your marriage once again!

In the history of the Christian faith there were men and women who allowed God to use their lives. They are an inspiration to every Christian who has the same desire of being used of God. This book contains brief biographies that can be used as devotionals for groups, families, with your children or personally. The author's desire is that God will use this little book to give you passion for the lost by taking a closer look into the lives of these giants of the faith.

In Middle East Crises, veteran American diplomat James Jeffrey offers a compelling, first-hand account of U.S. foreign policy and crisis management in the Middle East from 2004 to 2020. Drawing on his decades-long career as a Foreign Service Officer, Jeffrey takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most consequential moments in recent Middle Eastern history.The book chronicles his service under three American presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump ...

"Engel's excellent history forms a standing—if unspoken—rebuke to the retrograde nationalism espoused by Donald J. Trump." — The New York Times Book ReviewThe collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest shock to international affairs since World War II. In that perilous moment, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and regimes throughout Eastern Europe and Asia teetered between democratic change and new authoritarian r...

Wanting War is the first comprehensive analysis of the often contradictory reasons why President George W. Bush went to war in Iraq and of the war's impact on future U.S. armed intervention abroad. Though the White House sold the war as a necessity to eliminate an alleged Iraqi threat, other agendas were at play. Drawing on new assessments of George W. Bush's presidency, recent memoirs by key administration decision makers, and Jeffrey Record's own expertise on U.S. militar...

Available in print for the first time, this day-by-day diary of George H. W. Bush's life in China opens a fascinating window into one of the most formative periods of his career. As head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing from 1974 to 1975, Bush witnessed high-level policy deliberations and daily social interactions between the two Cold War superpowers. The China Diary of George H. W. Bush offers an intimate look at this fundamental period of international history, mar...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible?With over 50 original essays by leadin...

This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself, The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a b...