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Invisible Servant
$17.99Add to cartRichard Welch was challenged by the tremendous needs of Albania resulting in him making a three-week visit with members of his local church. Invisible Servant describes how Richard went to live and work in Albania and the difficulties he experienced trying to
become accepted by the local community. Invisible Servant will give the reader a fascinating insight into life in Albania. It will tell candidly the highs and lows of missionary life including the account of Richard’s dramatic rescue by the SAS! -
Why Havent You Left
$26.95Add to cartAs a missionary in the Sudan, amid unrest and war following Sudanese independence, Nikkel wrote these quasi-public letters-missionary epistles-to his friends and supporters back home in the US. These letters present a vivid picture of daily struggle in a impoverished, war-torn, but lavishly beautiful country.
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Storm Tossed : How A U S Serviceman Won The Battle Of Sex Addiction
$12.99Add to cart12 Chapters
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The author doesn’t pull any punches in this hard-hitting story that takes the reader to the Persian Gulf War zone, where Porter served on the USS America and tried to satisfy his cravings in the seedy underworld of Mediterannean seaport cities. Details are not graphic, but this well-written story does reveal the degradation and despair that wrong choices can lead to and also the glorious freedom that he found. -
Day I Died (Reprinted)
$12.99Add to cartAn Unforgettable Story of Life After Death”The cold voice of the anesthesiologist recited the typical ‘count backward from 10’ cadence. Darkness closed around me before he got to 7. That’s when I found out what it’s like to die–and to come back from the dead.”It was a beautiful winter’s day, showing no signs of what was to come. Steve Sjogren, pastor of one of America’s fastest growing churches, went into the hospital for routine gall bladder surgery and died–twice. What began as a tragic medical accident led to Steve’s encounter with death, an experience of unimaginable peace and some surprises, with comforting words from God, a meeting with an angel, and seeing those who had died before him.If you, or someone you know, are fearful of dying, curious about heaven, or simply desiring to live life to its fullest, this encouraging book could change how you view life and death.
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Hiding Place (Anniversary)
$12.99Add to cartA Chosen Books commemorative edition of Corrie ten Boom’s wondrous story. Love overcomes inhumanity in the concentration camp and heals lives in the war’s aftermath.
Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler’s concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis, and for their work they were tested in the infamous Nazi death camps. Only Corrie among her family survived to tell the story of how faith ultimately triumphs over evil.
Here is the riveting account of how Corrie and her family were able to save many of God’s chosen people. For 35 years millions have seen that there is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still. Now The Hiding Place, repackaged for a new generation of readers, continues to declare that God’s love will overcome, heal, and restore.
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Through Gates Of Splendor (Anniversary)
$15.99Add to cartIn 1956, five young men traveled deep into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce and isolated Waorani tribe. In a nearby village, their wives huddled around a radio receiver, eagerly awaiting news of the historic encounter. The news they received sent shock waves around the world and changed their lives forever.
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Combat Survival : Life Stories Of A Purple Heart
$20.00Add to cartMarine Sergeant George P. Hutchings landed in Vietnam in 1967, fighting near the northern Province of Quan Tri. Deployed on hundreds of combat missions, even the dreaded nighttime “Scorpion” maneuvers. A riveting survival story, wirtten in his “in your face” style-from his battalion being ambushed and nearly all killed in the jungles of Medina, October 12, 1967, to his “mooning” the North Vietnamese as they shelled him on his way to the outhouse, you will not put this book down. On March 18, 1968; George was caught in crossfire in Operation Ford, North of Phue Pi, and shot 3 times in the hip with an AK-47. Acting dead as a Vietcong bayoneted him, George then shot him in the head. George was awarded the Purple Heart. Follow George’s journey from a dysfunctional youth, to his friends blown to pieces in Southeast Asia, to his readjustment to civilian life. His heart bare, George shares how he fell in love and after years of searching, came to faith and found his purpose in life. He now delivers medical supplies to Africa and works with inner-city youth.
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Real Me : Being The Girl God Sees
$16.99Add to cartYou’re too fat. You’re too skinny. Your hair isn’t curly enough. Your nose is too big. If only your face looked like hers.
There are many voices in this world telling us how we should think of ourselves. Television and the media pat pictures of perfection that are a far cry form God’s perspective on who we really are. It is amazing how often we believe these lies and live as though the were true. But they’re not true. Not God’s truth.
In The Real Me, contemporary singer/songwriter Natalie Grant shares how a distorted self-image pushed her to a destructive eating disorder. Whether the story involves an eating disorder, drug addition, sexual promiscuity, or simply “acting out,” Natalie reminds us that we are not alone in the journey of life. No matter what happens or what we look like, God loves us just as we are. -
Man Of Faith
$19.99Add to cartMore than any other contemporary world leader, George W. Bush is A Man of Faith! Former Time magazine correspondent David Aikman closely examines Bush’s spiritual journey—a life-changing conversation with Billy Graham at Kennebunkport, his triumph over alcoholism to forge a new destiny, how events following 9/11 cast him as “God’s chosen man” for these critical days, the war in Iraq, and more. Features a new post-election conclusion.
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Into The Wardrobe
$19.95Add to cartPublished in the early 1950s, C. S. Lewis’s seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children’s classics and have been hailed in The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature as “the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author.” But how could Lewis (a formidable critic, scholar, and Christian apologist)conjure up the kind of adventures in which generations of children (and adults) take such delight? In this engaging and insightful book, C. S. Lewis expert David C. Downing invites readers to join his vivid exploration of the Chronicles of Narnia, offering a detailed look at the enchanting stories themselves and also focusing on the extraordinary intellect and imagination of the man behind the Wardrobe.
Downing presents each Narnia book as its own little wardrobe – each tale an opportunity to discover a visionary world of bustling vitality, sparkling beauty, and spiritual clarity. And Downing’s examination of C. S. Lewis’s personal life shows how the content of these classic children’s books reflects Lewis’s love of wonder and story, his affection for animals and homespun things, his shrewd observations about human nature, along with his vast reading, robust humor, theological speculations, medieval scholarship, and arcane linguistic jokes. A fun glossary of odd and invented words will allow readers to speak with Narnian flair, regaling friends and family with unusual words like cantrips, poltoonery, hastilude, and skirling. A masterful work that will appeal to both new and seasoned fans of Narnia, Into the Wardrobe offers a journey beyond Narnia’s deceptively simple surface and into its richly textured and unexpected depths. -
Kathyrn Kuhlman : A Spiritual Biography Of Gods Miracle Worker
$16.99Add to cart1. A Miracle Service
2. The Legend Begins
3. Defining Moments
4. The Call Of God
5. The Day Kathryn Kuhlman “Died”
6. The First Miracle
7. Her Best Friend
8. The Glory Belongs To GodAdditional Info
Join historian Roberts Liardon on a riveting journey through the life of Kathryn Kuhlman, one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century.
In this study of a miraculous healing ministry that spanned a half a century, you will:
*Read about the countless thousands who were healed in her presence-often without her ever laying a hand on them.
*Learn all about her vitality and victory, her tragedies and triumphs, and how she used them all to draw her ever closer to Jesus.
*Find out how she was able to allow the Holy Spirit to become her best Friend and greatest Teacher-and how you can, too. -
Peace Child : An Unforgettable Story Of Primitive Jungle Treachery In The 2 (Rep
$18.99Add to cartFrom Cannibals to Christ-Followers–A True StoryIn 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child tells their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals, who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. God gave Don and Carol the key to the Sawi hearts via a redemptive analogy from their own mythology. The “peace child” became the secret to unlocking a value system that had existed through generations. This analogy became a stepping-stone by which the gospel came into the Sawi culture and started both a spiritual and a social revolution from within. With an epilogue updating how the gospel has impacted the Sawi people, this missionary classic will inspire a new generation of readers who need to hear this remarkable story and the lessons it teaches us about communicating Christ in a meaningful way to those around us.
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Doctors Who Followed Christ
$18.99Add to cartLearning how other believers have struggled and persevered, often against great opposition, to achieve noteworthy success in their labors provides incentive for our own walk with the Lord. This new companion book to Scientists of Faith provides the interesting and encouraging personal stories of 32 doctors and their faith in God. Along with illustrations is a brief overview of each person’s contribution in their field.
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Charles W. Colson
$19.99Add to cartHe was Nixon’s hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one of the most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is his life story.
Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of our time. His ministry outreach, Prison Fellowship, has swelled to 40,000 volunteers working in 100 countries. His Angel Tree Christmas program provides presents to more than half a million children of prison inmates every year. His daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint, airs daily on more than 1,000 radio outlets across the country. And his twenty books have sold more than five million copies in the U.S.
But God had to work some mighty miracles to bring this unusual servant to this prominent place of service. After all, Colson was known as President Nixon’s “hatchet man.” His involvement in the Watergate conspiracy led him to prison-and then to a life-changing encounter with God.
Now, noted author Jonathan Aitken has written the first biography that compellingly presents a first-rate understanding of the political, historical, and spiritual journeys of Charles W. Colson… a life redeemed.
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William Law : Selections From A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life
$13.99Add to cartWilliam Law (1686-1761) was an Anglican priest who specialized in providing spiritual direction. This occupation led his writings to be concrete and specific, yet profound and filled with rich insights. His best known piece, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, has inspired countless generations and deeply influenced the English religious revivals. The selections here offer practical spiritual direction for those seeking a meaningful life of prayer and devotion.
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Father To The Fatherless
$18.95Add to cartSix year-old Charles Mulli wakes up in his Kenyan hut to discover his parents have abandoned him. Forced to beg from hut to hut in search of food, Charles scrapes out a meagre existence while trying to come to terms with his abusive past. Then, in a dramatic turn of events, Charles experiences unprecedented success. He finds a wonderful wife, raises a family, excels in business to such a degree that he creates an empire that is noticed by the President of Kenya, and he becomes a pinnacle in the church movement. Charles is on top of the world. And then his world changes. In spite of his tremendous achievements, the plight of the growing street children problem in his country remains strong in Charles’ heart. He is unable to shut out their cries, the cries he understands so well, and he realizes he must respond. Father to the Fatherless tells the true story of a man who makes a decision to sell everything he has to help the poor. It’s a decision that goes so counter-intuitive to those around him that he is soon completely ostracized, forcing him to carry out what seems like an impossible and unexplainable mission. Now, armed only with his relationship with God, Charles and his family struggle on physical, financial and spiritual fronts to rescue street children from the slums of Kenya and provide them with the hope of new life.
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Anxious Souls Will Ask
$17.99Add to cartThis brief yet brilliant book shows that the prison reflections of Dietrich Bonhoeffer contain profound inspiration for all who desire to walk more closely with Jesus in today’s troubled and often troubling world.
Illuminating the context and content of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought, Anxious Souls Will Ask… uses writings of the famous Christian martyr to critique the spirit of the age and to encourage in contemporary Christians the depth of commitment required to stand firm against the contemptuous winds of postmodern culture.
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Table In The Presence
$19.99Add to cartOn April 10th, 2003, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, faced with the task of seizing the presidential palace in downtown Baghdad, ran headlong into what Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North called, “the worst day of fighting for U.S. Marines.” Hiding in buildings and mosques, wearing civilian clothes, and spread out for over a mile, Saddam Hussein’s militants rained down bullets and rocket propelled grenades on the 1st Battalion. But when the smoke of the eight-hour battle cleared, only one Marine had lost his life. Some said the 1st Battalion was incredibly lucky. But in the hearts and minds of the Marines who were there, there was no question. God had brought them miraculously through that battle.
As the 1st Battalion’s chaplain, Lieutenant Carey Cash had the unique privilege of seeing firsthand, from the beginning of the war to the end, how God miraculously delivered, and even transformed, the lives of the men of the 1st Battalion.
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Gods Generals Highlights And Live Footage (DVD)
$19.99Add to cartEven though these men and women of God have passed on, their ministries and anointings still live. Experience the anointing of God’s Generals as you step into the healing revival tents of Jack Coe and A. A. Allen. Get to know Aimee Semple McPherson’s dramatic personality, and receive a touch from the Holy Spirit through Kathryn Kuhlman’s ministry. There is an impartation for you as you absorb one solid hour of footage from these faith greats.
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Gods Generals A A Allen (DVD)
$19.99Add to cartThe Miracle Man
Perhaps one of the most persecuted of God’s Generals, A. A. Allen operated his healing ministry with a heart for God’s people. Watch live footage of Allen healing a man in a stretcher, causing a leg to grow, and ridding a man of tumors. Find out why a man who paid an incredible price for spiritual strength and divine gifting would fight an ultimately losing battle for his own body’s healing.
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Gods Generals William M Branham (DVD)
$19.99Add to cartMan of Notable Signs & Wonders
What William Branham lacked in formal education, God made up for in the Spirit. Branham is shown here in live footage, aided by an angel and the Word of knowledge, as he reveals the secrets of men’s hearts. Used by God to heal and set the mentally tormented free, Branham would later fall into a deception that would eventually cost him his life.
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Gods Generals Charles F Parham And William J Seymour (DVD)
$19.99Add to cartAfter growing up in sickness, Charles F. Parham committed his life to God and the healing ministry, even opening a school. His dedication would affect the lives of countless others, including William J. Seymour, who was the only black student at Parham’s school. In order to abide by the Jim Crow laws, Seymour would listen from the hallway through an open door as his Bible school teachers unfolded the mysteries of Christ. Later, what he learned there would explode into the great Azusa Street Revival.
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Gods Generals Evan Roberts (DVD)
$19.99Add to cartWelsh revivalist Evan Roberts was a spiritual leader during a time when his nation was experiencing powerful waves of God’s convicting Spirit. Eventually Roberts laid down this leadership position and moved into the ministry of intercession. What caused him to make this ministry change? The answer can be found in a close-up look at the life of this man of God.
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Gods Generals Jack Coe (DVD)
$19.99Add to cartThe Man of Reckless Faith
Jack Coe’s humble beginnings at an orphanage where he was left by his father prepared him for God’s work, including the construction of his own boys’ home. Empowered by his radical salvation experience, Coe threw himself into God’s work, en bearing criticism for his gruff nature and reckless faith. Watch and see Coe in action as the blind see, deaf hear, and the lame walk.
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Walking The Straight And Narrow
$15.99Add to cartOver many years in his walk with God on the wire and in his life, Tino has developed more than 30 lessons in faith. Set against a backdrop of sawdust and trained tigers, attepted murder and trials by fire, betrayal and triumph, Tino Wallenda invites the reader behind the scenes, into the world of circus, and into a close, personal relationship with God.
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Printing Propaganda And Martin Luther
$29.00Add to cartMark Edwards’s pioneering work on the Reformation as a “print event” traces how Martin Luther, the first Protestant, became the central figure in the West’s first media campaign. He shows how Luther and his allies spread their message using a medium that was itself subversive: pamphlets written in the vernacular and directed to the broadest reading public. Closely examining Protestant and Catholic pamphlets published in Strasbourg in the early years of the Reformation, Edwards demonstrates Luther’s dominance of the medium, the challenges posed by Catholic counterattacks, the remarkable success of Luther’s New Testament, and the unforeseen effects of the new medium. This volume has opened an exciting new vista on the European Reformation.
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Mother Teacher : From The Memoirs Of Lois Callaway Missionary To The Mien P
$14.99Add to cartRefugees fleeing the communists were crammed into filthy barbed-wire camps in Thailand. The camps were bursting with the sick, the hungry, the dying, and the hopeless. Lois Callaway was an American missionary in Thailand at that time. Yoon Choy Saechao was a young village boy in Laos whose life was forever changed by the Silent War. It was in the stench of the Chiangkham refugee camp that their lives intersected and Yoon Choy found salvation. These two stories have become a singular story of crossing cultures and survival. It is as much a tribute to Lois Callaway as to the Mien people, including Yoon Choy, whom she loved and served. This book details many fascinating missionary experiences of Lois and C.W. Callaway in England, Burma, China, and mainly Thailand from 1946 to 1998.
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Orestes A Brownson A Print On Demand Title
$39.99Add to cartOrestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was a philosopher, essayist, and minister whose broad-ranging ideas both reflected and influenced the social and religious mores of his day. This superb biography by Patrick Carey provides a thorough, incisive account of Brownson’s shifting intellectual and religious life within the context of American cultural history.
Based on a close reading of Brownson’s diary notebooks, letters, essays, and books, this biography chronicles the course of Brownson’s eventful life, particularly his restless search for a balance between freedom and communion in his relations with God, nature, and the human community. Yet Carey’s work is more than an excellent account of one man’s development; it also portrays the face of an important period in American religious history. What is more, 200 years after Brownson’s birth, America is marked by the same pressing social and religious issues that he himself addressed: religious pluralism, changing religious identifications, culture wars, military conflicts, and challenges to national peace and security. Carey’s book shows how Brownson’s values and ideas transcend his own time period and resonate helpfully with our own.
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My Life And My Death
$18.95Add to cart“My greatest teacher has been my cancer,” says the author in his story of faith as he faces death. But the author never goes too far in the direction of becoming “touchy-feely” with his illness. In fact, he refers to his cancer as being of the devil, yet he never dwells too long in this application either. There is humor but never too much. There is some “preaching” about people with grudges against God but never too much. Instead he tells us, step by step, how he learned of his cancer, how he learned that his cancer was worse than originally thought, how he came to bond with his doctor, how he came to accept the stages of disintegration of his body. The author’s main work here is to find ways to bring us unbearable tidings about sickness and dying in ways that, with God, are bearable.
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Kathryn Kuhlman : Her Spiritual Legacy And Its Impact On My Life
$13.98Add to cartThis remarkable book is more than the dramatic account of how a red-haired, freckle-faced girl from Concordia, Missouri, became “the most prominent woman evangelist who ever lived.” It is also the story of how God used her life and teaching to influence Benny Hinn. By tracing her fifty extraordinary years of ministry, Benny Hinn offers revealing insights into the spiritual life of one of God’s choice servants as she took the saving and healing message of Jesus Christ to her generation – often in the midst of personal struggles and disappointing heartbreaks.
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More Than I Could Ever Ask
$19.99Add to cartMeeting Lori Bakker today-a young woman with a bright, outgoing personality, you could hardly imagine her as a teenager living a life of flagrant sexual promiscuity and drug abuse. Nor would you picture her as having had five abortions before she was twenty-one.
More Than I Could Ever Ask tugs at the heartstrings of women and men. Lori’s story is one of forgiveness-finding forgiveness from God, learning to forgive the men who hurt her, and most of all, discovering inner peace. Her story also shows the power of love and faithfulness. After she was single and celibate for nearly nine years, Lori met and fell in love with a man she had known only by reputation-Jim Bakker. Today Lori and Jim-two broken lives brought together by God as one-have been restored and are busy helping restore others to spiritual and emotional wholeness.
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Table Talk
$19.99Add to cartMartin Luther’s Table Talk is a compendium of excerpts taken from conversations with his students and colleagues, who furiously scribbled notes as he spoke. Reading them, it’s easy to imagine all of them sitting around the table, eating and drinking and discussing issues of great concern to reformists. These excerpts are frequently anecdotal, highly opinionated, sometimes sublime, sometimes unsophisticated, occasionally brutal… and always unequivocating. Right or wrong, Luther has his say.
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Gods Generals Collection (DVD)
$149.99Add to cartMeet a dozen dynamic individuals who helped fan the flames of revival in the 20th century! Evan Roberts, Smith Wigglesworth, William Seymour, Aimee Semple McPherson—from humble beginnings in Wales, England, and America, they went on to lead some of the most remarkable Christian movements in recent history. Roberts Liardon’s compelling biographies chronicle their lives, work, and teachings on 12 DVDs.
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Desert Rat : The Remarkable Story Of Aileen Coleman
$15.99Add to cartShe has been celebrated by the princely and noble as well as the lowly and oppressed. She is known by many names-“The Angel of the Desert,” “Blood Brother to the Bedouin,” and “A’raisa, the Leader”-and through “honors” bestowed upon her by Queen Elizabeth, she is entitled to be known as Dame Aileen Coleman. One dignitary lovingly referred to her as “one of the greatest servants God ever put on His earth.” Medical missionary Aileen Coleman humbly shuns such pretentious and flowery titles, maintaining she is only “a desert rat.” Her longtime friend, Franklin Graham, president of the Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan’s Purse, asks, “How is it possible that this lady from Bundaberg, Australia, could turn the Arab world upside down?” The story of her faithfulness and servanthood through four decades of ministry in the Middle East could change your life forever.
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7 Chambers Of Hell
$14.99Add to cartA True Story of One Man’s Trip Through Hell and Back Why does Hell exist? What must it be like for unbelievers who have rejected salvation? Why would a loving God condemn “anyone” to ETERNAL damnation? Similar questions have puzzled us for centuries, but many will be answered in this intriguing book, which takes the reader on a disturbing journey through the demonic realms of Hell. This book recounts the graphic vision received by a young Death Row inmate, Jeremiah Rodgers. Enlightening, albeit unsettling, this should be read prayerfully. Almost certainly, this vision will change the way many view life-and death. This is a “must read” for those seeking to understand “what” Hell really is, and “who” will go there. It is a place of loathing and fear, intense pain and hopelessness, and physical and spiritual torment without end. Just as the wonders of Heaven are unimaginable-so are the horrors of Hell.
