Are you struggling to read the Bible but really want to?

Most of us have cracked open the Bible but haven't entirely read it, because it is too long, confusing, and overwhelming. Some of us even struggle with faith, religion, and our purpose. If this is you, then this book may transform your life.

See how this average, middle-aged guy who never read the Bible, was bored in church, and had a tainted view of religion, finally read the Bible and got inspired by it. In this book, he boils the Bible down to make it easier and less intimidating for anyone to read.

Let this book be used to supplement your journey and get you excited to dive deeper into the Bible. When you read it, you'll soon realize that it's much more than just a book about God, Jesus, creation, and religion. It teaches us about life, death, our values, struggles, hope, love, hate, betrayal, patience, faith, and finding your purpose.

My hope is that it will help you develop a closer relationship with God and Jesus Christ so you too can experience all the blessings He has for you. - Ken Wilson

An ancient prayer with contemporary appeal-memorable, physical, genderless, and mystical. Like the Serenity Prayer, it appeals to those relying on God to get through their day.

Wilson's book is ground-breaking and thought-provoking, and indispensable for every serious student of hugely influential core aspects of Augustine's thought. -- Professor Karla Pollman, University of Bristol on Dr. Ken Wilson's Augustine's Conversion. This book summarizes Dr. Wilson's ground-breaking doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford which was published by Mohr Siebeck in 2018 as Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to 'Non-free Free Will': A Comprehensive Methodology. With a new audience in mind, Dr. Wilson presents his extensive research on free will in ancient and early Christian thought in a shorter and more accessible format with translations of the ancient and modern foreign languages in plain English. Dr. Wilson first provides readers with essential background information on free will in the ancient philosophies and religions of Stoicism, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and Manichaeism. He then guides his readers through the writings of the earliest Christian authors who wrote on free will. Finally, Dr. Wilson explores a curious split between St. Augustine's early and later writings and shows how the ideas presented in Augustine's later writings became the foundation for modern Calvinist (Reformed) theology, also known as Augustinian-Calvinism.

Who was J. Christy Wilson Jr.? Many have never heard his name, but Christy Wilson's
life had a ripple effect in modern missions. Read the first full biography of the humble,
adventurous man of prayer who helped launch the Urbana missions conference, pioneered
ministry in Afghanistan when others thought it impossible, mobilized hundreds of students
toward world evangelization, and reintroduced the biblical idea of leveraging one's
profession for the kingdom with the term tentmaking. Riveting, uplifting, and frequently
amusing, this book will challenge you to reconsider what is possible when we dare to yield
to Christ and his purposes in the world.

All Michael wanted was a safe and loving home and family. By the age of ten, his father had died from a drug overdose, his older brother was someplace in the foster care system, and his mother was in prison. In and out of multiple foster homes, he was finally adopted by his forever family.

Instead, three weeks before his eleventh birthday, his autistic friend pulled Michael's limp body from the water. Did he drown by slipping on rocks and then fall, or was he murdered? Were the ravens right to warn him? Who was the dark shadow behind him? Why would anything this horrible befall such a young and innocent child?

The author assembles all the pieces of the puzzle, to unravel this inspired by true events mystery through the lens of Detective Russ Wyatt.

Detectives Russ Wyatt, Steven Judd, and K9 deputy Max work with a federal task force to catch a paid serial killer with organized crime connections that stretch from Seattle to Chicago. The killer is soon identified as a former Marine Corps sniper who received a psychological discharge.

The former sniper sets out to settle a personal score against those he perceives as responsible for the death of a close friend and for his discharge from the Corps. After the killer meets and marries the sister of an organized crime figure, he is hired by the mob to carry out contract hits against competitors and those who threaten the crime family's business.

We are designed to make connections to God through prayer in more ways than we can imagine.

Prayer can be so much more than a simple conversation. It can be a wordless connection with God, a step beyond the boundary of the separated self. It can be a way to listen to the silence. And it can be learned. We can learn how to pray in ways we never thought possible. It doesn't take more effort; it takes more understanding.

Wilson's book shows how the brain is designed by God:

• To calm itself
• To relax into love
• To become increasingly aware of how connected everything is in God
• To experience a deeper intimacy with our Creator

Prayer is something that our brains want to do with a little help. Ken Wilson tells us how.

Praise for Mystically Wired:

Smart, savvy, candid, credible, unafraid, self-effacing, and shot through with passionate love of Jesus . . . yes, hands down, this is the best book on prayer that I have ever read.

-- Phyllis Tickle, Compiler, The Words of Jesus: A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord

I confess, I don't normally like books on prayer, but Mystically Wired is a big exception. While this book is incredibly practical, I was routinely blown away by the intuitive genius of Ken's view and application of prayer. Page after page, thinking I knew what was next, I was surprised with fresh insight and unique perspectives on connecting with God. Being an evangelist, I was excited to realize I could also send this to spiritual friends who don't follow Jesus as a way to introduce him.

-- R. York Moore, National Evangelist InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA

It began the day Jesus' disciples came to him and asked, 'Lord, teach us to pray.' Ever since, Christ-followers have been wanting to learn the ways of prayer. Ken Wilson's Mystically Wired is an extraordinary contribution to that learning tradition. It's a wonderful read that leaves you feeling, 'Yes, this is for me. Yes, I can do this. Yes, it's within reach.'

-- Brian McLaren, Author/Speaker/Activist

I wandered away from religion because religion thought it had all the answers. Pastor Ken Wilson, though, understands that life and faith are really about having the right questions. If you want to pray for favors, put this book down now. If you want the answers, the help here is only partial. But if you're looking for a wide-ranging inquiry, and a path that can bring you closer to the mystery--without the mumbo-jumbo--delve within.

-- Carl Safina, Author, Song for the Blue Ocean and The View From Lazy Point

Mystically Wired was a breath of fresh apologetic air for me. I pray and I experience God, and I find fixed hour prayer deeply meaningful, but this book shows that God made us to do such things and our brain is wired to communicate with God.

-- Scot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University

In my library there are scores of books on prayer--by legends and modern guides as well. It is not easy to make a genuine contribution to this body of literature. But Ken Wilson has done so. Mystically Wired manages to bring together the best of the sciences and philosophies of mind, brain, and consciousness with deep spirituality and candid personal reflection. While it will happily fit my on my shelf, it fits best in a heart yearning to pray.

-- Todd Hunter, Anglican Bishop

Fifty-six classroom activities requiring minimal preparation, ranging from shorter and less demanding to longer and more complex activities, culminating in a series of original dramatic sketches.

Loved More Than You Know was written by a new grandfather, and the content emerged from the question: If I were not here, what would I want to make sure my grandchildren know?

The story tells of Susie and her miserable day. Her mother and father comfort her by holding her close and explaining to her about the God who loves her, who died for her, and who can live within her. Susie is introduced to the good news that we can know God personally. When another miserable day comes along, Susie has a new outlook and a new hope.

Through this book, your children can gain a greater understanding of how much God loves them, grasp the truth they can know God personally and have him in their lives, and learn they can handle anything since God is always with them.

Who is the Signmaker, and how can he make such perfect signs? The boy decided to find out for himself. That's when everything changed in his village, his home, and his heart.

Children and adults alike will delight in this story filled with colorful illustrations and a message that resonates with the longing of every heart.

Charles Goodgame is a portrait painter who's in love with his stepsister Polly Capstan. She works for the Duke of Burfaughtonleigh at his crumbling stately home in Gloucestershire. Polly invites Charles to paint a portrait of the Duke, but when he arrives, he finds that she has an ulterior motive, a brilliant idea that will make them 'pots of money'.

The plan goes wrong, of course ...

The supporting cast of characters includes aristocratic crooks, a widowed Viscountess with a penchant for Italian waiters, an artist with a guilty secret who is being blackmailed by the alcoholic wife of a theatre impresario and a bank manager who carries handcuffs and a shotgun when chasing fraudsters, but not everyone is who they appear to be. All their lives collide in a series of scandals, shocks and surprises that continue to the very last page.

Ken Wilson has been writing educational materials for nearly fifty years, and sold more than ten million books before he wrote his first work of fiction. In all, he wrote more than thirty English language teaching titles, including a dozen series of textbooks. His most successful course book series, Smart Choice, published by Oxford University Press, is in its fourth edition and has sold more than six and a half million copies. His first publication was an album of language teaching songs called Mister Monday, released when he was 23, which at the time made him the youngest-ever published ELT author.

During his working life, he was also a trainer, conference presenter, theatre director, radio and TV programme writer and audio producer. Until 2002, he was artistic director of the English Teaching Theatre, a company which performed stage-shows for learners of English all over the world. The ETT made more than 250 tours to 55 countries.

Five years ago, Ken decided he had written enough English teaching books and embarked on a Creative Writing Master's degree at Birkbeck College, University of London. He graduated with merit in 2017.

Dr. Ken Wilson exposes the development of a modern heresy first introduced by Zane Hodges and then promoted by Bob Wilkin's Grace Evangelical Society (GES). As a friend and former financial supporter of Hodges, Dr. Wilson details Hodges' development of a new heresy from the late 1980s until his death in 2008. He compares Hodges' theology with the current theology of Bob Wilkin and his GES. As a Patristics scholar, Wilson demonstrates why this novel theology is a modern Christian heresy and why the majority of Free Grace proponents adamantly reject it. He then recounts the failed efforts of friends and academic colleagues to bring Zane Hodges, Bob Wilkin, and his Grace Evangelical Society out of their heretical theology back into traditional Christian orthodoxy.Kenneth Wilson has written a sensitive and accurate assessment of the theology of Zane Hodges and Bob Wilkin in their departure from the Gospel of Christ. I have watched this movement from its development over the decades that has minimized and confused belief in the person of Christ with the benefits of Christ's work. This is a much needed book for Christians who desire to be orthodox in their theology. - Professor H. Wayne House, Past President, Evangelical Theological Society

This is a breakthrough work coming from the heart of evangelical Christianity and offered into the heart of evangelical Christianity, writes David P. Gushee, the prolific Christian author and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. In describing this book, Gushee continues: It is unlike other books that demand revision of traditional Christian sexual ethics but do so primarily by rejecting the authority of the Bible. That is not how evangelicals think, and it is not what Ken Wilson does here. Instead Wilson shows how God has led him on a journey toward a rethinking of what the fully authoritative and inspired Bible ought to be taken to mean in the life of the church today. This is a remarkable and timely book, writes Tanya Luhrmann, an author about contemporary religious life and the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. It is clear to an observer like me that evangelical Christianity is at a crossroad. ... That problem is the broad and widening gap between evangelical Christianity and its young. ... The book you hold is a passionate and courageous argument. Many people will not like it. But they should read it and weigh whether it is true, because more hangs on the argument than the fate of gay marriage within evangelical Christianity. At its heart, this book asks Christians to rethink what God and scripture may be saying about what it means to be a good and decent person. The answer to that question will shape what the church becomes in twenty years. Best-selling author and journalist Phyllis Tickle, an expert on religion widely quoted in news media, says of this book: We Christians ...rarely think of our clergy as men and women who routinely spend agonizing hours and days and weeks pouring studiously over sacred texts in relentless, on-going attempts to penetrate the mysteries contained there, to discover their wisdom, their instruction, their relevance, and to consider the means and repercussions of their implementation within our here and now. ... This is midrash. ... And in the pages that follow, we have before us one of the most exquisite, painful, candid, brilliant pieces of contemporary Christian midrash that I have ever seen.

Loved More Than You Know was written by a new grandfather, and the content emerged from the question: If I were not here, what would I want to make sure my grandchildren know?

The story tells of Susie and her miserable day. Her mother and father comfort her by holding her close and explaining to her about the God who loves her, who died for her, and who can live within her. Susie is introduced to the good news that we can know God personally. When another miserable day comes along, Susie has a new outlook and a new hope.

Through this book, your children can gain a greater understanding of how much God loves them, grasp the truth they can know God personally and have him in their lives, and learn they can handle anything since God is always with them.

When a door is opened, it's your choice to walk through it ... this is your invitation.

Will this be yet another passing moment in time you missed out on what could've been life-changing?

Throughout our lives, we will be nudged. But will you be aware of that nudge? ... And if so, what will you do about it?

Is fear or self-doubt holding you back from opportunities in your life? These nudges are more than just coincidence, and it's up to us to take that next step and accept the invitation to walk through that opened door. This book will help you do that.

What are you waiting for?

Benjamin Lakewood isn't ready to live in a new town. Especially in a Cul-de-Sac in a haunted suburban town with a paranormal past, but this is where young Ben and his famous writer of a father were sent to try and uncover the town's hidden secrets. Ben lived in New York his entire life and the only real paranormal activity he's ever experienced was only in his head after watching a horror movie or reading old horror magazines under his covers at night. This will all change when he steps out to explore his new town called Growling Graves.

After meeting a boy his age, who shares the same interests as hockey and horror, the two discover strange things happening right behind Ben's new house in the adjoining Cul-de-Sac where a witch named Grenadine lives. Loud noises and green lights seem to appear out of nowhere and children go missing from time to time.

When the captain of the local middle school's ice hockey team goes missing, the two boys gather up some help from Ben's father, an old diary and a few other kids from the hockey team to find out what happened to their friend. Graveyards and creepy old houses are just the beginning for these boys. Will these kids finally figure out the mysteries of Growling Graves or will they be sucked up into a vortex of other missing children?