Bøker av J a Bouma

The Church's future is history.The third book in a four-episode, binge-worthy story season released the first of the month, told through full-length, complete novels with cliff-hangers that make you hunger for more!The year is 2123. The citizens of the world have united. Peace, prosperity, and progress reign supreme. Rising apostasy threatens to consume Ichthus, the last remnant of Christianity. And the Church's most chaotic hour since the Protestant Reformation has dawned with the dissolution of the faith and creation of a one-world religious assembly, Panligo.Standing at the center is the remnant of Christianity, which has just uncovered a lost religious order with the power to help the Church under siege. Only an ancient enemy of Ichthus has risen from the shadows to thwart the Ministerium at every turn. What's more: the Republic has taken dramatic moves that changes everything and threatens to undo all that they have been working toward-ratcheting the stakes even higher for the future Church and sending the Ministerium back in time once again to retrieve from the past vital inspiration for the future.Will the future Church survive forces threatening her from inside and out? Will Ichthus retrieve from history what it needs to survive the future? And will ordinary believers rise to do the impossible when the Church needs them most?Ichthus Chronicles is an explosively inventive series that recasts the Christian struggle in a future world rife with social and religious challenges combined with technological and political change that feels close to home-inviting readers to experience the sacrifices and struggles to persevere unto victory in the face of hostile forces, both in the future and the past.Not since the blockbuster Left Behind series has a story captured the heart of the Church's mission in these last days-offering a unique, page-turning adventure that not only entertains through thrilling action and mysterious suspense, but captures the urgency of our own day and inspires for the journey of faith.Continue the epic series by bestselling author J. A. Bouma about the future Church under siege. Episode 1: Available Now Episode 2: Available Now Episode 3: Available Now Episode 4 + Full Season 1: Releases Dec 1

The Church's future is history.A four-episode, binge-worthy story season released monthly, told through full-length, complete novels with cliff-hangers that make you hunger for more!Read each monthly episode starting now or wait for the full season 1 to be released on December 1, 2019.The year is 2123. The citizens of the world have united. Peace, prosperity, and progress reign supreme. Rising apostasy threatens to consume Ichthus, the last remnant of Christianity. And the Church's most chaotic hour since the Protestant Reformation has dawned with the dissolution of the faith and creation of a one-world religious assembly, Panligo.Standing at the center in this second episode continuing the epic story is a broken parish priest whose faith in the future of the Church is beginning to fray-and whose life has just been decimated by an act of terror. Only questions swirl around who perpetrated the act of persecuting violence. And evidence begins to surface of an old nemesis of Ichthus rising from the shadows to once again bring the Church to its knees. The only hope for Christianity's future survival seems to be a lost religious order, and discovering its beginning and end means traveling back in time to visit one of Christ's apostles.Will the future Church survive forces threatening her from inside and out? Will Ichthus retrieve from history what it needs to survive the future? And will ordinary believers rise to do the impossible when the Church needs them most?Ichthus Chronicles is an explosively inventive series that recasts the Christian struggle in a future world rife with social and religious challenges combined with technological and political change that feels close to home-inviting readers to experience the sacrifices and struggles to persevere unto victory in the face of hostile forces, both in the future and the past.Not since the blockbuster Left Behind series has a story captured the heart of the Church's mission in these last days-offering a unique, page-turning adventure that not only entertains through thrilling action and mysterious suspense, but captures the urgency of our own day and inspires for the journey of faith.Continue the adventure with episode 2 in the epic 4-part series by bestselling author J. A. Bouma about the future Church under siege. Episode 1: Available now Episode 2: Available now Episode 3: Releases Nov 1 Episode 4 + Full Season 1: Releases Dec 1

A four-episode, binge-worthy story season released monthly, told through full-length, complete novels with cliff-hangers that make you hunger for more!Read each monthly episode starting now or wait for the full season 1 to be released on December 1, 2019.The year is 2123. The citizens of the world have united. Peace, prosperity, and progress reign supreme. Rising apostasy threatens to consume Ichthus, the last remnant of Christianity. And the Church's most chaotic hour since the Protestant Reformation is about to dawn.Standing at the center is a broken parish priest whose faith in the future of the Church is beginning to fray. When news breaks of Christian leaders dismantling the faith, Father Alexander Zarruq receives a mysterious visitor bearing an urgent request from a former mentor that turns his world upside down. What's more: An old friend makes history discovering what may be the Church's only hope-time travel.Will the future Church survive forces threatening her from inside and out? Will Ichthus retrieve from history what it needs to survive the future? And will ordinary believers rise to do the impossible when the Church needs them most?Ichthus Chronicles is an explosively inventive series that recasts the Christian struggle in a future world rife with social and religious challenges combined with technological and political change that feels close to home-inviting readers to experience the sacrifices and struggles to persevere unto victory in the face of hostile forces, both in the future and the past.Not since the blockbuster Left Behind series has a story captured the heart of the Church's mission in these last days-offering a unique, page-turning adventure that not only entertains through thrilling action and mysterious suspense, but captures the urgency of our own day and inspires for the journey of faith.Start episode 1 in the epic series by bestselling author J. A. Bouma about the future Church under siege. Episode 1: Start reading now Episode 2: Releases Oct 1 Episode 3: Releases Nov 1 Episode 4 + Full Season 1: Releases Dec 1

A legend 900 years in the making rises again to protect the ChurchThe day before Easter 1119, 700 unarmed Jerusalem Christian pilgrims were savagely attacked by Muslims from two nearby cities. Three hundred were slaughtered, sixty more were taken as slaves-and nine men rose to avenge their deaths and pledge their lives to "the defense of Jerusalem and the protection of pilgrims."The Knights Templar, robed in white with crimson crosses and armed to protect Christians from threatening persecution.Nine hundred years later, a series of similar devastating, coordinated attacks leaves the Church reeling during Holy Week-and bewildered by the possibility that the legendary Knights of Christ have risen from the shadows of legend into the light of activation.When the Order of Thaddeus, ancient defender of the Christian faith, is embroiled in the mayhem without any answers, SEPIO launches its most harrowing operation yet-to not only protect the Church and bring the perpetrators to justice, but to confront the mysterious men in white avenging Christian persecution once again.Templars Rising is a story of faith and persecution, vengeance and martyrdom that leverages the familiar conspiracy suspense of Dan Brown, the special-ops muscle of James Rollins's Sigma Force novels, and the historical insight of Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series-delivering an explosive religious thriller that abandons Hollywood-style Templar conspiracies for the remarkable historical truth behind the ancient religious order.In a truly original story ripped from the unreported headlines chronicling the horrifying persecution of the worldwide Church, J. A. Bouma combines fact, faith, and fiction like few contemporary religious storytellers-weaving an adventurous, action-packed page-turner with a compelling, inspiring message for believers and non-believers alike about the nature of faith and ones unashamed commitment to it-even unto death.Grab the 6th book in the bestselling religious suspense series readers say offers a "highly entertaining" and "compelling read"!

**Purchase includes a free online course on faith***What do you do when the faith you've always known no longer makes sense?That's the haunting, confusing, unexpected question confronting twentysomething Peter Daniel Young after a friend doubts whether Christianity makes sense of life and has anything to offer. More troublesome yet: the right Christian answers Peter was trained to give since childhood are for questions no one is even asking-including his friend, and even himself.Which leaves him questioning what he's always believed - leading to a crisis of faith the likes of which he has never before experienced.While not abandoning his childhood faith, Peter launches into a journey of exploration and discovery, reimagining faith for his world and questioning what the essence of the Christian message is in the first place. Along the way, he is confronted by rising doubts, encouraged by friends new and old, questioned by those close to him, and challenged to own his faith for himself.What he discovers is all at once terrifying and thrilling - for this story is the drama of his faith's death and rebirth.Written in the self-discovery style of John Green's coming of age stories, with shades of such classics as C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, J. A. Bouma's tale is the first story in a fresh, insightful spiritual coming of age series for a new generation wondering if the Christianity they've always known still matters in these dynamic times - and whether there might be something more to help make sense of life. Drawing from his own spiritual journey as a young adult, Bouma writes a stirring fable of resonance and truth for those wrestling with deep questions of faith, life, and everything in between.Whether you are facing your own crisis of faith and wondering whether Christianity still matters, or you know someone who is struggling themselves, discover along with Peter what the Christian message means for him, his family and friends, his life in the Church - and for you.

A mythic grail. A legendary quest. Blood with the power to save.Silas Grey is taking a much-needed vacation after the year has turned his life on end. But when fellow SEPIO agent Matt Gapinski shows up on his beach with a secret mission straight from the Vatican, he knows trouble has found him once again. Which means Day One of his new job with the Order of Thaddeus-ancient defender of the Christian faith-has begun ten days early. And soon it becomes clear an ancient cultic threat is seeking a mythic religious relic:the Holy Grail that held the blood of Jesus Christ.But is it so mythical? And why is the Church's archenemy so desperate to find it?Those two haunting questions launch the SEPIO agents on their most harrowing mission yet with a clock ticking to find answers just before Christmas. Spanning historic Europe and Medieval Church history, the agents race to solve this threatening puzzle until the final pieces are brought together in a final showdown that will leave readers all at once breathless and inspired.Grail of Power leverages the familiar conspiracy suspense of Dan Brown, the special-ops muscle of James Rollins's Sigma Force novels, and the historical insight of Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series to deliver an explosive religious conspiracy thriller with a technothriller edge- plumbing the depths and significance of the most recognizable religious figure in history: Jesus of Nazareth.Combining fact, faith, and fiction like few contemporary religious writers, J. A. Bouma weaves an adventurous, action-packed page-turner new readers will devour-while offering several explosive reveals that will leave fans of the inventive series satisfied with long-awaited answers.Grab the 5th book in the bestselling series readers have exclaimed: "Indiana Jones, step aside, I have a new hero - Silas Grey!"

***Purchase includes a free online course on faith***What do you do when your newfound faith is challenged by those closest to you?Peter Daniel Young is about to find out.Convinced he was called by the good Lord to train to be a minister, Peter is caught in a poetic downpour driving back home again-the last place he ever thought he would end up. But soon after returning to his hometown, he is caught in the tension of his traditional parents, who are relentless with their questions; a brother who's hit rock-bottom, and has walked away from the Church; new friends, who offer him welcomed support for his new spiritual direction; and a conservative professor, who challenges his beliefs at every turn.More troublesome yet: Peter begins to question whether the reimagined faith he carefully constructed to save his Christianity was what he needed in the first place - and he finds himself wondering whether there might be something more to the faith he left behind.Picking up the story immediately at the end of A Reimagined Faith, J. A. Bouma weaves a fresh, insightful spiritual story of resonance and truth to help a new generation wrestle through deep questions of faith, life, and everything in between. With shades of John Greene's coming of age novels, combines with the poignance and insight of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, it is the book he wished he'd had and his parents had during his own crisis of faith.Whether you are facing your own faith crisis and wonder if Christianity is still relevant to your world, or you know of someone who is struggling themselves, discover along with Peter what why the old, old story of Jesus and his love still matters. For him, his family and friends, the Church - and for you.

The Separation of Church and State. The Authentic Faith. Never More At Risk.Ex-Ranger-turned-professor Silas Grey is at an all-time low. His career is in jeopardy, the woman he cares about is in the hospital, and there's a presidential election tearing the country apart. So when a former classmate shows up with a mysterious medallion with ancient markings of conflicting origin, he knows trouble is on the horizon.He also knows exactly whom to call: the ancient religious Order of Thaddeus, protector of the Christian faith stretching back two millennia. But when the election takes a remarkably dramatic turn, it becomes apparent that a dark menace threatens not only America, but also the Church. And the mystery medallion is revealed to be part of a more explosive conspiracy stretching back to the early decades of America's founding.Silas and the Order's SEPIO operatives embark on a timely mission ripped from the headlines to protect the integrity of the authentic Church. Not only that, whether they succeed or fail will have national ramifications as the country straddles the knife-edge separation of Church and state. In a race against the election clock, will they succeed before that separation is breached and religious confusion floods the nation?Leveraging the familiar elements of Dan Brown's religious conspiracy and James Rollin's special-ops suspense, informed by Steve Berry's historical insights and Joel Rosenberg's thrilling inspiration-religious thriller author J. A. Bouma delivers a gripping political thriller with the fourth book in the groundbreaking archaeological thriller series that will leave you holding your breath at every turn.Join the fight for the very soul of the Church-and of America's.

The Lost Ark is more than a Hollywood blockbuster.FACT: the Ark of the Covenant was a real religious object, a wooden box overlaid with gold and crowned with two golden cherubim. FACT: the Ark served as the central religious artifact of the ancient Israelites for worship and sacrifice. FACT: around 586 BC the Ark vanished from Israel's temple, never to be seen again. What happened to it and where did it go?The world is about to find out.Once again, ex-Army-Ranger-turned professor Silas Grey is drawn back into the fray with an urgent mission from the ancient religious Order of Thaddeus after a former professor makes headlines for unveiling the location of the Lost Ark. But soon it is clear things are not as they seem-and the struggle has never been greater for the Church. For not only is there a startling discovery. Matt Gapinski and a new SEPIO recruit track a high-value operative of the Order's ancient nemesis that reveals the stakes are even higher for both the ancient Jewish relic and the Christian faith.In this explosive third adventure in the groundbreaking Order of Thaddeus religious conspiracy thriller series, twists and turns spanning three continents will leave you wondering where the Ark of the Covenant has been hidden for two-and-a-half millennia-and what would happen to the world religious scene if it were found. Will Silas and the SEPIO operatives stop the threat against the Church and the Ark before it's too late?Once again emerging author J. A. Bouma combines the familiar elements of Dan Brown's religious conspiracy with James Rollin's special-ops suspense, informed by Steve Berry's historical insights and Joel Rosenberg's thrilling inspiration-delivering "a passionate historical fiction that draws you into the story from the very beginning."Engage this propulsive new archaeological thriller adventure straddling thrill and thought, faith and doubt.

An ancient threat. A sacred relic. A religious belief under siege.Silas Grey-ex-Army Ranger, professor of religious studies, and leading relics expert-is on the verge of rocking the religious and nonreligious alike with scientific proof of the Church's central belief: Jesus Christ's resurrection. But a series of suspicious deaths and devastating attacks not only threaten Silas's shocking announcement and those close to him. They are a sign of an even greater threat reemerging from the shadows.Coming to his aid is the Order of Thaddeus, a religious order that has been battling for the very survival of the Church since its birth. Soon it is clear that an ancient cultic enemy has risen to destroy the Christian faith-beginning with its most sacred relic and teaching. Spanning the globe from Washington to Paris to Jerusalem, Silas and the Order combine forces to plunge into a desperate mission for the very survival of the Church and all it holds dear.Can they preserve the memory of its central belief before its archenemy erases it forever?Holy Shroud is the first book in the groundbreaking Order of Thaddeus action-adventure thriller series combining the familiar conspiracy suspense of Dan Brown with the special-ops thrill of James Rollins, wrapped in the historical insight of Steve Berry and inspiration of Ted Dekker.Embark on this explosively inventive adventure by emerging author J. A. Bouma, straddling thrill and thought, faith and doubt-a ride people are saying is so captivating and inspiring "you won't want to put it down!"