Jesus Has Defeated Satan

This book is not written by a Papua New Guinean, but it certainly is a very PNG book. Missionary Neville Bartle (like many missionaries to PNG) went to school when he arrived in the country many years ago. This schooling was not in a classroom with teachers and assignments; it was in villages, in bush houses, listening to late night stories around the fire. It was on long walks, canoe rides, etc. as he got to know hundreds of people and learned of their lives and stories. He learned many of these things from PNG people, but the truths are not local, they are worldwide. consider what he writes in the introduction:

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 Today there is a brutal, vicious, worldwide fight going on. It is not between families or clans; not between countries or provinces. It doesn’t centre around political differences or divergent worldviews. It is nothing new; it has been raging for millennia.

This fight is between God and Satan, between God’s holy angels and Satan’s evil powers of darkness.

This fight involves every human being and every spirit. It cannot be avoided. You and I are also included in this fight.
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 So many people wander their way through this warfare half blind. They get injured and crippled without even realizing how and why. It is time for Lasik surgery for our Spiritual Eyes. Time to see things for what they really are. Time to find victory - genuine life-changing victory - through knowing the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

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Groping for God

My Search for Answers During My Sorrows

We may rarely find someone who truly understands their personl journey through tragic sorrow. It is even more rare when that person is able to articulate that journey, and make it comprehensible, so that it might act like healing ointment for others to read, to feel, and to understand.

This is what pastor Darius has done for us.

Pastor Darius is from the South Pacific Island country of Papua New Guinea. He lost his wife through cancer and now his only daughter through a tragic accident. After comforting hundreds of mourners in his years of ministry, he now feels hurt, angry with God, and unable to recover. His honest story has helped thousands of readers in his own country.

Now his dynamic, true account is available worldwide in eBook format.


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Invitation

By opening the pages of this book you are about to jump into a story, a fascinating story, a true story.
This story will take you to places you have never been before. It will introduce you to people you may know very little or nothing about.

BUT

You will be gripped by it. You will feel many different emotions – sadness, joy, fear, hope, empathy, tears, respect, etc. – for the people in the story and the situations they find themselves in. Bad things and good things have combined together to create a very difficult and conflicting situation. A situation that certain people are attempting to resolve.

We cannot know if Demas (as an example) really was talkative and outgoing. We don’t know if Dr. Luke worked in a hospital. We don’t know how the runaway slave met up with Paul who was under house arrest. But we crafted this story as a way to show how it could have happened. We tried to be true to the surroundings and time-period of the original story and we have attempted to be true to all the information the Bible does give us about the characters and the events concerned.

Thank you,

The Authors

Onesimus - Transformed

This is an incredible book; fun, informative, enlightening.

This is

Creative Biblical Writing.

How "creative" can nonfiction be?

It is time for the Oscars and this year apparently three nonfiction movies are being examined in regard to their truthfulness toward the events they portray. This has created discussion in many arenas. One incidence is the film "Lincoln." Apparently the film has representatives of the state of Connecticut opposing a motion to free slaves and apparently this is completely untrue to the facts.

I came across this book in the local library a day or two before the Oscar discussions popped up. The title intrigued me so I pulled it off the shelf and gave it quick read-through. It is based on a real situation where the first author wrote an essay for a magazine that was quality writing but the author fudged on a number of the "facts." The second author was called in with his fine-toothed-comb to see if it could be salvaged enough to be published.

The book is interesting, funny and enlightening. There is almost no introduction, no conclusion. The pages are laid out with portions of the essay centered in the middle, and the questions and comments of the fact checker along with interactive correspondence with the author and the fact checkers boss. It is quite an accomplishment to make such material, with such a layout, an attention keeper.

I have wondered with the Josiah book and the Onesimus book if readers might feel uncomfortable about seeing sacred texts turned into lively stories (the liveliness especially true with Onesumus). I hope readers feel free to pass on any critiques of the material.

If we have presented anything contrary to the original documents we would certainly like to know. It seems, though, that the creative presentations have oiled many readers' rusty minds and inspired them to further study. This is the goal and reward of such writing.

Wily

The Bible has some wily characters, but the chief of the bunch might just be our old friend Jeremiah.

 

He is tenacious, witty, and quick with a comeback. He was frustrated with a weak and waffling disobedient king, who simply would not heed the clearest warnings that he needed to surrender to the enemy in order to save the temple, the city, and the nation. So to get his point across, he came up with this line to stress the inevitability of defeat.

"Even if you were to destroy the entire Babylonian army, leaving only a handful of wounded survivors, they would still stagger from their tents and burn this city to the ground!" Jer. 37:10 NLT

There are tons more of these.

Josiah - Chain Breaker

The first eBook by Christian Books Melanesia is now available through Kindle, iTunes, Nook and Kobo (and some others). Yippee! The title: Josiah - Chain Breaker. Price: $1.99.



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De-isolate The Events and People

How many Bible readers know where and how the Prophetic books (Isaiah - Malachi) intersect with the historical books(1 Kings - Esther) and with the other prophetic books. This is a gold mine of study and facinating.