Books published by Covenant Books

Violent death-justified death can be a soldier's nightmare. I Killed My Captor in North Korea is a story of mental survival after multiple violent deaths caused by the author.

Herbert Mays, a high school dropout with low prospects, was left for dead in an army morgue in Vietnam. God gave him a new lease on life and ultimately used him to profoundly impact people around the world. His story offers many inspiring lessons: Everyone has purpose and meaning, no life insignificant. Anyone can positively impact people near and far. Everyone has something to offer humanity. His story reaches deep inside and touches the very soul. Readers will laugh, cry, and be stirred within.

The purpose of this book is to encourage readers to never give up. With God on your side, your dreams will come true. The author is a United States veteran who fought during the Korean War, serving the country on a destroyer, USS Mansfield DD728 in the service. He returned to America at the age of twenty-three and became a Christian. He received a call to serve others in the ministry. With his family, they pioneered a work beginning in his home in 1969 that led to establishing a church work among the Chinese and Vietnamese in San Jose, California. God miraculously provided several properties worth over $1,500,000 and a local church now worth several million dollars in cash today. The church is debt free and completely paid in full. This is all due to a God who led the journey of a poor boy who started with nothing and became a dreamer. With the help of God, he made it all come true. I hope you enjoy reading this book. Thank you, Richard Shinn

Some carry this book everywhere. It helps addicts and depressives. It's given out in prisons. For some, it's their devotional. It's a Bible companion prayer tool to lift, protect, and surround believers with a force field of Bible truth from Genesis to Revelation. It is also a distillation and declaration of Bible truth about who you are in Christ, and the power and authority you carry as a Christian. It will strengthen and equip you to stand in an increasingly hostile and stressful world.

In Friends of the Forest, you will find animal characters of virtue gently teaching the importance of values, capturing the attention and imagination of young minds. Children will relate to the different animal characters and learn about the important virtues in forming a healthy character. At the end of the story, one is born receiving the essential gifts of the forest.

Kept in seclusion by her father until all memory of her was forgotten, Linet has become a fearful woman of introspection and independence. When she is suddenly whisked away to claim a future she had once dreamed of but now doesn't want, she must quickly become someone she doesn't recognize in an effort to endure what she now is.Hidden as a babe to escape his father's wrath, Muireach has emerged from his humbled beginnings to claim his birthright of Igden. His past has been forgotten and his future more than secured. Yet, with the fulfillment of the king's edict, circumstances which he has ignored for the whole of his life have emerged to threaten everything he holds dear.A father's betrayal, a mother's death, a brother's scheme…She was the daughter secretly shunned, and he the son who had never been wanted. Now, as their paths merge and they begin to travel the road upon which they have both been cruelly thrust, can they together learn to entrust their uncertain future to the God of Igden's wayward priest? Or will the waves of sorrow which have so long threatened to overpower them both, finally prevail?

Why do Christians view the world differently than do secularists?Is a conclusion valid if the first step of evaluation to reach that conclusion is to reject significant factors upon which the conclusion must rest?Consider!

Faith is the required amount of belief for any human being involved in an interaction with God. It is impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6, Message).The mass, motion, and measurement of faith are kingdom bylaws that are irrevocable because of the everlasting counsel of God. He has provided this evidence in eternity past, eternity future, and in our present state of being. We, as believers, must make a personal commitment to have the "God kind of faith."Faith is a spiritual quantity of our lifespan from beginning to end. As the kingdom device by which the gifts are received through salvation. Salvation is through faith, not through the custody and ownership of the law.Faith is simply not allowing the ills of our past or uncertainties of the future to hinder the trust we have in God today.