#Throwback Thursday: God and the Atheist

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As we reminisce on the over forty years that God has blessed Ambassador International to remain in business, we are highlighting a different #backlistbook each week in a series called #ThrowbackThursday.

Paul Ferguson was born in Northern Ireland and studied Biochemistry at Queen’s University, Belfast and Law at King’s College, University of London. He practiced Corporate Law for five years in London and has been a lecturer in Law and British History in various universities in South East Asia.

After being challenged by students while teaching in Singapore to prove that God exists, Ferguson set out to do just that and thus was born his book God and the Atheist: A Lawyer Assesses the Evidence for the Existence of God published by Ambassador International on March 31, 2007.

We are living in an increasingly secular age where man seeks to build his own life without recourse to his Creator God. Under the guise of “rationalism,” Christianity is ridiculed as “out of date”or “irrelevant.” This contemporary materialistic age has philosophically popularized the identification of being an agnostic or an atheist. It has become “academic” to denounce the existence of God and to be an evolutionist in all the social sciences of epistemology. Consequently, secular Western Civilization has become atheistic in belief and life.

In each chapter of his book, Ferguson evaluates and sets out the evidence to answer the atheist’s objections to the existence of God.

God and the Atheist answers the most fundamental questions about Christianity, such as:

  • How do we know there is a God?
  • How do we know there is only one God?
  • How do we know the Bible is the Word of God?

In a readable and humorous style, Ferguson precisely builds a remorselessly logical case using his legal and scientific skills to guide the objective reader to discover the truth of Who God is. Although the discussion often veers into the academic, Ferguson works hard to make it understandable to those without a scientific background.

You can add God and the Atheist to your Goodreads HERE and you can learn more and find purchase links HERE. This book is available in paperback and ebook.

 

For a limited time, you can grab the God and the Atheist ebook for 0.99!

#Throwback Thursday: Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good: How to Identify, Debunk, and Dismantle Dangerous Ideas

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As we reminisce on the over forty years that God has blessed Ambassador International to remain in business, we are highlighting a different #backlistbook each week in a series called #ThrowbackThursday.

Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good: How to Identify, Debunk, and Dismantle Dangerous Ideas was published by Ambassador International on October 27, 2020. Why did we pick this book to feature for our #ThrowbackThursday? Because “truth is an early casualty of political correctness.” So, there’s no better time than to close out what the world recognizes as “Pride Month” than by highlighting a book that helps readers fight lies with the truth. Truth matters, and its mechanism of dissemination is words.

In his book, Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good, Douglas Kruger, an international speaker and author, looks at each of the most popular issues in today’s culture—their origins, their purpose, their arguments, and their lies.

Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good is a guide to combating toxic Politically Correct culture, from socialism to identity-politics, and halting the creep of harmful ideologies across our civilization. It is a how-to manual for hardcore debaters, who believe in the value of hard-won Western traditions, such as science, logic, free markets, rule of law, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. The book helps readers to understand and articulate the flaws and fallacies taken for granted in “woke” culture today with the end goal of winning hearts and minds.

In this politically correct world, Douglas Kruger helps readers see that being politically correct isn’t creating peace but instead is starting a war. And he gives us the tools we need to ready ourselves for the fight for right.Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good by Douglas Kruger

The conclusion of Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good is this: You can have political correctness, or you can have truth. But you cannot have both.

 

You can add Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good to your Goodreads HERE and you can learn more and find purchase links HERE. This book is available in hardcover, paperback, audio, and ebook.

 

For the next few days, you can grab the Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good ebook for 2.99!

New YouVersion Plan: Turning Ashes Into Beauty by Anne Farnum

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As part of Ambassador International’s mission to “magnify the Lord Jesus Christ and promote His gospel through the written word,” we are a partner with YouVersion to help people make the Bible a part of their everyday lives. Author Anne Farnum has just released her third Bible plan with YouVersion titled “Turning Ashes Into Beauty.”

Life is messy! Sometimes we need to own the messiness; sometimes, it is just part of living in a sinful world. God takes the struggles and hardships of this world and redeems them. We need to know this truth that God is faithfully at work as we encounter our world. Join Anne Farnum over the next five days and discover what to do with the ashes you hold.

Click HERE or search for “Ambassador International” in your YouVersion app and find this plan, along with all our others, to get started!

#Throwback Thursday: The Sex Spiral

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As we reminisce on the over forty years that God has blessed Ambassador International to remain in business, we are highlighting a different #backlistbook each week in a series called #ThrowbackThursday.

Dustin Daniels is the Senior Pastor of the River Bible Church in Cottonwood, AZ. He is the co-founder of Revive40, a Christ-centered sexual purity ministry that teaches and trains God’s design for sex, marriage, and the family. He is also the host of the podcast, “God, Sex and You,” that is listened to in 80 countries around the world. Dustin and his wife Amy, live in Cottonwood, AZ. Dustin Daniels

Dustin’s book, The Sex Spiral: Forgiven and Free from Pornography, was published by Ambassador International on January 8, 2018. While this book doesn’t fall too far back in our catalogue backlist, we felt this book was appropriate to share during the month of June because Dustin’s book first looks at God’s design for marriage and sexuality.

Every Sunday, in Bible-believing churches across the world, pews are filled with men and women who have been forgiven by the blood of Jesus Christ. However, millions of people walk away from the worship service confused as to why they are not experiencing the freedom that the Scriptures proclaim.

The Sex Spiral Throwback ThursdayThere is a direct correlation between the confusion and apathy of sexuality within our churches and the pandemic of pornography in our pews.

Unfortunately, the statistics are too big to quote and we don’t believe them when we do. How is it possible that so many Christians are addicted to pornography? Isn’t Jesus enough? Why are we still being tempted with lust? What’s wrong? What’s missing?

Sexual sin is powerful and unforgiving—it grows if unaddressed and devours lives. Daniels writes that it was only through his active church community and, most importantly, the forgiveness and grace of Jesus Christ, which broke his spiral of sin and allowed him the freedom that the Scriptures proclaim. Daniels’ book is not a self-help book or a twelve-step program, but rather The Sex Spiral: Forgiven and Free From Pornography is a Biblical plan to experience not only the forgiveness of Jesus Christ, but also the freedom He promises.

You can add The Sex Spiral to your Goodreads HERE and you can learn more and find purchase links HERE. This book is currently available in paperback and ebook.

 

For the month of June, you can grab the The Sex Spiral ebook for 0.99!

In Memory: H. Robert Wilson, Ph.D.

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We are not always made aware of major life events in our authors’ lives, but today we were notified by family that on May 27, 2023, Dr. H. Robert Wilson passed away after a three-week battle with pancreatic and liver cancer. While we know he is rejoicing at having met his Creator he loved so dearly, we also know his family is grieving at their loss here on earth. Please be in prayer for his family as they grieve.

Dr. H. Robert Wilson was trained in biology with a PhD degree in Zoology (parasitology, anatomy and physiology), which he followed with a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Pathology. He had an active research career spanning three decades, much of that time in the pharmaceutical industry involved in the exciting task of finding, evaluating, and testing possible new medications against certain infectious diseases and cancer, which he and his colleagues hoped might ultimately benefit patients.

Though becoming a Christian in 1974, he still accepted evolution as real because “I educationally grew up with it, just accepting it, and never critically questioning whether it actually was real or not. It somehow just was, and as to what Scripture revealed? I believed God created, surely, but—I did not even attempt to reconcile Scripture’s truth with the science I knew at that time. God forgive me.”

Reading a sentence in Lee Strobel’s “The Case for a Creator,” Dr. Wilson found himself stunned, and “the more I looked into what evolution taught in accepted textbooks and standard reference materials, the more I found that it was not the science, not the truth, and not the fact it claimed to be.”

Nullifying GodAs a result, Dr. Wilson authored Nullifying God: Evolution’s End Game, A Scientist’s Challenge, a wonderful apologetic book written for Christians and other readers who are not familiar with science. Dr. Wilson hoped to provide a resource to help Christians be able to clearly see, point-by-point, the outright (and likely unintentional) deception that evolution is in presenting itself as accepted fact and to also understand how its staunch advocates and activists—although certainly not all of evolution supporters—are using evolution to attempt to nullify God in our lives.

Not only did Dr. Wilson provide this resource for Christians, but he was active in the social media sphere {especially on Twitter!} using his brilliant mind and science knowledge to speak the truth regarding Creation.

He will certainly be missed, and his family and friends are in our thoughts and prayers. Please keep them in yours as well.

To view the official obituary, please visit HERE.

 

 

#Throwback Thursday: What Good is Jesus?

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As we reminisce on the over forty years that God has blessed Ambassador International to remain in business, we are highlighting a different #backlistbook each week in a series called #ThrowbackThursday.

When children are sold into slavery—what good is Jesus? When wretched disease takes a loved one’s life—what good is Jesus? When marriages crumble and jobs disappoint—what good is Jesus? When I don’t agree with someone’s lifestyle—what good is Jesus?

Marv Nelson tackled these questions (and more!) in his book What Good is Jesus? published by Ambassador International on March 8, 2016.

Marv Nelson has been an Alliance pastor for over seventeen years and serves as an adjunct professor at Crown College. He has a Masters of Divinity degree and is currently working toward his doctorate. Marv has written several books, including The Anchored Life: Nautical Principles that Help Believers Grow and Unleash: Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders.

If you’re not living with your head under a rock, you’ve probably looked around and observed that many people seem to know of Jesus, but few actually know Him. The real entity of Jesus has been tainted by how His followers have portrayed His image in their lives. The institution of religion has overtaken the beauty of relationship, and many Christians are walking away with a bitter taste. Deconstruction, anyone?

Faced with declining opportunities, a war-torn globe, and seemingly-insurmountable crises, many millennials are asking the sincere question: what good is Jesus? Pastor Marv Nelson doesn’t avoid tough questions; instead, he tackles issues head-on with love and wisdom. Examining sexuality, politics, racial tensions, suffering, and more, Nelson addresses these problems through a relational rather than religious approach and shows us just what good Jesus really is.

 
 

You can add What Good is Jesus?  to your Goodreads HERE and you can learn more and find purchase links HERE. This book is currently available in paperback and ebook.

 

For the month of June, you can grab the What Good is Jesus? ebook for 0.99!

Father’s Day Gifts Dad Will Love!

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Father’s Day is just around the corner and we have the gifts for any dad in your life!

 

Fathers are a blessing that never ceases in our lives, and at Ambassador International, we are grateful for fathers everywhere! We’ve handpicked our most popular series for men this Father’s Day in hopes that we may bless more fathers, leaders, shepherds, and coaches with these books.

Our “Called To” series by John Crosby presents daily devotionals for shepherds, leaders, and coaches. These books make for perfect gifts for any man in your life looking for a devotional that touches upon the specific struggles he sees as a shepherd, leader, or coach.

From Christian schools gifting Called to Coach to congregations giving pastors Called to Shepherd, to business leaders receiving Called to Lead, these books remain relevant and practical to men striving to serve the Lord.

While they are a three-part series, readers are welcome to read them in any order or to read just one or two. However, we don’t think you’ll want to!

#Throwback Thursday: By God’s Design: Overcoming Same Sex Attractions: A True Story

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As we reminisce on the over forty years that God has blessed Ambassador International to remain in business, we are highlighting a different #backlistbook each week in a series called #ThrowbackThursday.

What happens when a man finds himself sunk in a downward spiral of risky homosexual acts and he knows no way to escape? And when he is about to lose his prestigious and profitable career, along with his marriage, and even his life?

The answer would have been certain tragedy for Alan Medinger if not for a praying wife and the mercy of God. Restored and inspired, he went on to establish a ministry for same-sex-attracted people (Regeneration of Baltimore, Maryland), where he and his wife, Willa, influenced hundreds to turn from homosexuality and seek holiness. Through their work with Exodus International, they influenced thousands more. When quarrels and dissension affected Exodus in Alan’s last years, he predicted its demise and explained how ministries would continue to succeed without it.

Through Alan and Willa Medinger’s story in By God’s Design, you will learn the truth about homosexuality, its causes, its healing, and how the church can help.

“For anyone who cares for the LGBT community, this is a must read. Alan’s story of transformation and his decades of ministry to the sexually broken gives him unique authority to share the power available in the gospel of Jesus. This book is an important addition to the current conversation about homosexuality: Jesus doesn’t just accept and forgive people, He transforms them.”
Ron Citlau, Senior Pastor of Calvary Church, IL, Author of Compassion without Compromise: How to Love our Gay Friends and Keep the Truth and Hope for the Same-Sex Attracted: Biblical Direction for Friends, Family Members, and Those Struggling With Homosexuality

 

You can add By God’s Design  to your Goodreads HERE and you can learn more and find purchase links HERE. This book is currently available in paperback and ebook.

 

For the month of June, you can grab the By God’s Design ebook for 3.99 {a savings of 50%!}.

Carol Award Semi-Finalist: Addy of the Door Islands!

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The Carol Award Semi-Finalists were announced this week, and we’re thrilled that Addy of the Door Islands by Judy DuCharme has been listed as a semi-finalist in the young adult category!

Addy of the Door Islands is the story of Addy, a little girl who arrived on an orphan train with her sister, desperate for a home, love, and acceptance. Lainey and her husband Clifford find themselves on the verge of parenthood—both adoptive and biological—and find that their adventures on Door Island are only beginning.

Learn more about this long-awaited sequel to Lainey of the Door Islands HERE and add it to your Goodreads HERE.