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TED DEKKER

New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker, has over 40 novels. He is best known for thrillers & historical fiction based on the teachings of Jesus.

NYT bestselling author Ted Dekker has sold millions of thrillers worldwide. Dekker was born to missionaries and grew up among cannibals of Indonesia, and his unique upbringing gives him a peculiar perspective outside the norm, and allows him the freedom to share provocative insights outside the box.

Dekker has a keen grasp of the reality of spiritual warfare. Do not be fooled. Just because he writes in fiction doesn’t mean his stories aren’t powerful, life changing parables that will challenge the reader and cause one to ask themselves the hard questions that lead to change and victory in their lives.

Dekker is one of Lisa’s favorite authors. His Circle series is a compelling, challenging and edge of your seat read that will inspire you! The first two books she suggests you start with are “The Blessed Child” and “A Man Called Blessed”. For years Lisa carried extra copies of those two to give to people because they were so life changing.

Dekker is called a horror and thriller writer by most media and critics, but he is a spiritual warfare writer…plan and simple. It’s just that the secular media doesn’t know how to categorize what he writes. But his themes and plots are purely christian and the premises, scriptural. Do yourself a favor and check out one of his books today. Because he is a NY Times best seller, most city libraries will have copies of his books.

Blessed Child

The young orphaned boy was abandoned and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls—at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee those walls or die.

A Man Called Blessed

One man holds the key to locating the Ark of the Covenant—but he’s hidden deep in the desert and no one has seen him since he was a boy.

Two women are taken back to Bosnia in the WWII era, in which a small group of women and children must answer the question “What would you die for?” When a group of bitter soldiers stumble upon their peaceful village in the midst of a birthday party, the God loving inhabitants have a grim opportunity to find out.

In this moving novella, Ted Dekker poses the questions and beliefs of love, reality, and eternity. The women who relive the story are forever changed, and are made beautiful by their new understanding of heaven through the Martyr’s Song. Ted Dekker, softcover, 130 pages.


Francis Frangipane

Francis is the founder of River of Life Ministries in Cedar Rapids IA and has traveled throughout the world ministering to thousands of pastors and intercessors from many backgrounds. Francis’ heartfelt prayer is to see established in every city, Christlike pastors and intercessors, united before God, revealing the love of Christ to their communities.

Over the past decades, Francis served on a number of other ministry boards. However, in recent years he has gradually resigned from the boards and as of June 2009, he has also retired from his position as senior pastor of River of Life Ministries. In this more simplified life, Frangipane is devoting himself to prayer and the ministry of God’s word.

NOTE: The Three Battlegrounds is the only spiritual warfare book Lisa has ever recommended to those going through deliverance. It doesn’t trigger SRAs and is so scripturally based, written with the heart of an intercessor, that it is ideal for helping disciple believers in rightly discerning warfare and training them to use the weapons of scripture and prayer.


Ellen Gunderson Traylor

Ellen Gunderson Traylor, “America’s Foremost Biblical Novelist,” is a gifted storyteller who brings characters of the Bible to life. Her many bestselling novels have sold about a million copies in English, with numerous foreign translations.

In addition to writing bestselling novels, Traylor has been a magazine/newspaper columnist and correspondent. An award-winning feature writer, Traylor has written screenplays and political speeches, and was a contributing writer and researcher for the Tyndale Family Bible Encyclopedia project.

Ellen is a messianic author with keen prophetic insight. Her biographical works of faithful followers brings the heros of faith to life in all their glory and fallability. Her Priest, Oracle and Cornerstone works are especially relative for today and she includes appeals to her readers that while her works are of fiction, the events she portrays are all around us and the stage is being set for Messiah to take back the earth.

Lisa highly recommends Mary Magdalene for anyone who has suffered severe abuse trauma and John Son of Thunder, for any who struggle with finding and walking in the call of God for their life. Something Like Scales is especially poignant in this day and age. All will inspire and challenge the reader!


Rick Joyner has authored more than fifty books, including The Final Quest Trilogy, There Were Two Trees in the Garden, The Path, and Army of the Dawn. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of MorningStar Ministries, a multi-faceted mission organization which includes Heritage International Ministries, MorningStar University, MorningStar Fellowship of Churches and Ministries.

What if a single revelation could change your destiny in a moment? In this riveting bestselling series, author Rick Joyner takes you on the supernatural journey that has captivated millions. More real than an allegory, The Final Quest Trilogy is a panoramic vision of the epic struggle between light and darkness, and your part in it.

As the series unfolds, you can join in the great battle, encounter angels and demons, apostles and prophets, and the heavenly realm itself. This trilogy is about the greatest adventure, to serve the greatest King, and to stand for His truth with courage—a tale not for the timid, but for the bold.

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