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Questioning our faith and spiritual beliefs, while leaving the familiarity of our religious homeland, can be excruciatingly painful. Loneliness, isolation, and fear of rejection - from God and others - can give rise to shame, guilt, anger, and sadness. In Religious Refugees, therapist and ordained pastor Mark Karris explores this disorienting faith shift through the lens of cutting-edge psychological research, theology, philosophy, and, most importantly, the real world experiences of those who are going through - and have gone through - this arduous and confusing journey.

Wolf Creek is a Western historical fiction novel about a cowboy building a new home in the Rocky Mountains in 1882.

Nueces Grit: Texans Answer the Call absorbs listeners in the events and accompanying dynamics sweeping South Texas during the early years of the War Between the States. Texas’s best men have joined the fight, leaving the Texas frontier vulnerable to desperadoes, bandits, and hostile Indians. Follow the epic adventures of Texas Ranger Captain Luke Dunn, as he delivers frontier justice across the war-ravaged treacherous prairies of the Nueces Strip of South Texas.

Country singer Johnny Wales can't seem to put his guilt behind him. The only thing that is constant in Johnny's life has been his taste for alcohol. Plagued with one wrong decision after the next, Johnny’s finally ready to quit losing and start over. Johnny doesn't know where to begin, especially when temptation is lurking around every corner. After Johnny finally hits rock bottom, it’s time for him to stick to his guns. But Johnny needs help along the way. When a stranger named Abner arrives, Johnny's life turns upside down.

The former career of Captain Ike Smith, a retired fire investigator, exposed him to the dreadful human beings inhabiting the world of arson...a group of people he does not miss. Since retiring, he has been chasing his new passion and career as a charter boat captain, pulling kayak fishermen out for a weekend of fishing and fun on Tampa Bay in Florida. However, a call from an old supervisor unexpectedly pulls Ike back into the life he thought he had left far behind.