Urban Church

Everyone says beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sheila's eyes are focused on her dreams. With her sights set on opening the hottest beauty parlor in the city and a $100,000 grant on the line, Sheila doesn't have time for distractions. Especially not from Shi'zad, the persistently charming but aesthetically challenged man who keeps popping up everywhere she goes. Her relationship with Shareef might be circling the drain, but that doesn't mean she's looking for a replacement – least of all someone who looks like a darkroom experiment gone wrong.

We know that Urban isn't just a place but a culture now. Followers of Jesus face many challenges to their faith, among them the rising influence of contemporary cults, alternative theologies, and ethical issues that challenge traditionally held beliefs and practices. Urban Apologetics: Cults and...

Things ain’t never fair in love, and the harder these Carson brothers try, the more the drama seems to keep coming for them. Lance can’t seem to catch a break as one blow after have him caught between ICU and law enforcement. Just when he’s about to catch his breath, the worst of the worst slaps him in the face: baby mama drama. Tanya, his bitter ex, is determined to have the last laugh – and she’ll burn down anything that gets in her way. Just how far is she willing to go to exact the perfect revenge? The jagged triangle that is Ace/Gianni/Mason continues to prove dangerous to ...

What’s done in the dark always comes to the light, doesn’t it? In part two of this jaw-dropping series, Ace's revelation has the family reeling with shock, but Paris is on cloud nine as she finally has the man of her dreams with no interruption—but will her bliss be short-lived as she and Ace struggle with choosing a hard right over an easy wrong? A lucrative record deal promises to bring Majesty the fame and fortune they’ve always dreamed of, but once the money is laid on the table, things take a treacherous detour when Danger’s true motives come spilling forth with a shock-wave ...

Monique Samuels had been in love with Cedric Davis since they were in diapers. With him being a preacher’s son and her family active in the church, they had practically grown up together. They had also grown deeply and passionately in love, with Cedric being her first crush. Her first kiss. Her first love. The first to breach her womanhood… As high school sweethearts, that love had seemed boundless – until Cedric went off to college, and then broke up with her a few months later. Now they’re adults, and Cedric had done the expected by becoming senior pastor of their church after his...

Never betray a WitchRevenge of the Witch: Book Two "Aubrey Law has an amazing, imaginative, and comprehensive grasp of the otherworldly." - Amazon reviewer "Loaded with amazing creatures" - Amazon reviewer Betrayed by her only friend and gravely wounded, Annis continues her quest for revenge on her demon enemies and their dangerous allies. Can she survive the deadly streets of Los Angeles alone? An unexpected ally will arrive to help Annis. But are his intentions pure, or something sinister? Annis will also encounter exotic swamp creatures, an angel of Heaven, and a mysterious female ...

“I ain’t just preaching. I’m building. For my son, for my people, for God’s truth.” I was eighteen when I took a man’s life — the man who put his hands on my mother. Ten years in a cell taught me pain, but it also taught me purpose. I came home with nothing but scars, a stack of letters to my son, and a fire I couldn’t put out. Now I’m standing on ground that’s divided — old heads in the church telling me to quiet down, racists in the street wishing I’d disappear. But I ain’t here to disappear. I’m here to show my boy, and every son and daughter watching, that a ...

Things You Can’t Tell Mama - The Pastor's Wife Everyone has done something at one point in their lives when they think – I can’t tell mama about this. Twenty year old Quinton Taylor is home from college and had a huge “Things I Can’t Tell Mama” experience with the wife of the church pastor that also happens to be his mother’s coworker. The first in the “Things You Can’t Tell Mama” series – The Pastor’s Wife - is the story of how a young man becomes entangled with the wife of the pastor of his mother’s church, Latavia Harper, during his time home from college during...

Don’t Try to Ride the Wave of 20th-Century Ministry Leaders, are you called to a place where Jesus’ name is most often spouted as a curse word? Because in the 21st-century, the culture is shifting. The “easy places” are increasingly post-Christian—even pre-Christian. If you want to minister successfully right now, you must: • Learn the mind-shifts necessary to make disciples in the world as it exists today • Rethink outmoded ideas of funding, metrics, and team-building • Find out how to model a faith community that’s relevant to the needs of the culture where God’s ...

Some fight for faith. Some fight for power. Some seek a new wold while others seek to uphold the old traditions. Can vampires find the grace of God or are they truly damned souls? It comes down to new beliefs verses old authority. But does one side really have God on their side?

To Transform a City is a timely, compelling book that helps readers understand how to think about cities, their own city, and the broad strategies needed for kingdom impact. The book begins with an overview of the importance of cities in the new day in which we live. The authors address the...

From the outside looking in, Deacon Devlyn Dubose is exceedingly blessed and highly esteemed. His charismatic personality and overwhelming magnetism make most instinctively gravitate toward him. He appears to be a chief example of a true man of God. However, his wife, Azrielle, has come to see him differently. She knows first-hand how fast the seemingly compassionate man can turn into a double-faced monster, a saint on Sunday but a devil in the streets. For over a year, she has lived her own double life, a contented wife in the public eye, but a prisoner to her husband’s whims behind ...

Police Chief Delaney Reed thinks she knows all of Ordinary, Oregon’s secrets. Gods on vacation, lovelorn ghosts, friendly neighborhood monsters? Check. But some secrets run deeper than even she knows. To take down an ancient vampire hell-bent on revenge, she will have to make the hardest decision of her life: give up the book of dark magic that can destroy them all, or surrender her mortal soul.

Women’s rights activist, Lynn Cummings, switches up churches like shoes. As soon as her anointing is exposed, she runs – that is, until she finds a pew at First Baptist Church, where Lynn is anchored by the wiles of the debonair Pastor Stewart. Lynn, becomes the woman on Stewart’s arm, and with that, becomes the target of women who are always up in Pastor Stewart’s face, namely, his quote-unquote friend Bianca, the skin-bleaching, man-worshipping teen choir director who’ll stop at nothing to become Stewart’s first lady. Even Nay, the wife of Stewart’s right hand man, Associate...

Matt Richter's going to pieces - literally. You've got to keep your head to survive in the teeming undead city known as Nekropolis. It's a pity crazed genius Victor Baron couldn't manage that. Now everyone wants a piece of him. Zombie detective Matt Richter and his glamorous she-vampire companion Devona are back on the case, with another wild and wonderful investigation.  

Family over everything – that’s the motto in the Carson family, and no matter how life has tried to tear them down, these five brothers always find a way to put family first – but is it all a lie? They present a united front, but each brother has enough lies and secrets to rip the family apart forever. In this first installment, you meet big brother Ace: the glue that holds the brothers together, but even the most noble man can’t say no to temptation. He’s living the dream, but will his happiness last when his “temptation” decides she wants to be his main? Mason is willing to ...

Joe is a hard luck guy whose luck just got worse. A little girl shows up at his job as security guard to a museum and he doesn't know where she came from. He has only 45 minutes to find out, or he could go to jail.

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CONTAINS UNCENSORED, RAW, AND EXPLICIT CONTENT. RATCHET, SEXUALIZED, HARD CHARGING, COLD BLOODED, PAGE TURNING, HOT, STEAMY, AND AWE INSPIRING FIRE FROM THE GUT! WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SON OF A PERVERT? A mega church minister is torn between the ways of his womanizing, sexually perverse, father, and his God fearing, holy ghost grandfather. In the end he becomes a dangerous combination of both, causing him to lose his family and everything he holds dear, as he fights for love, peace, and happiness. CAN A SINNER BECOME A SAINT? Still in love with the church, he lives the life of a born again ...

Love, when shown the right way, is a beautiful and rare occurrence. However, when one isn't honest with yourself or the people around you love seems to go on the back-burner and chaos ensues. Carmon Wells has finally gotten her much-deserved happily ever after, or so it seems but with enemies lurking around every corner, Carmon will soon learn nothing is what it seems. Growing up in the church prepared her for a lot of things, but never anything like this. Will she make it out with her life and her love, or will she lose both in the process?