Our apologetics booklets for sale

We have recently updated most of the following booklets we have written on various aspects of apologetics, and they are now selling in PDF format here.  

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The Martial Arts: Should I Be Involved? – $5

Are you already a Christian and wondering if there’s a problem being involved with the martial arts? Or, maybe you’re not a Christian but you're wondering. Perhaps you’re involved but uncertain and want more information. This booklet’s aim is to help you understand the many grave implications of involvement with the martial arts. 

The Glittering Web: A Survey of the Occult and the New Age Movement in Contemporary Culture and the Church – $7.50

The broad sweep of this 33-page booklet exposes the false conversion involved. It also provides a historical perspective and a chart of 15 current major New Age (more popularly called “interspirituality”) trends. The narrative examines Eastern religions, psychedelics, witchcraft, Gnosticism, Romanticism, Mind Science, business usage, holistic health, cosmic evolutionary thought, globalism, education, women’s “spirituality,” UFO cults and mysticism, and Jungian psychology. At the end there are three pages of defined esoteric terms and two pages of resources.

The Christ of the Bible – $1.50 

This booklet discusses who Christ really is and includes a chart comparing the biblical facts about Christianity with a variety of counterfeits.

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit vs. Psychic Counterfeits – $3.50

Some Christians see any evidence of certain of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as demonic; others accept all spiritual manifestations as genuine. This booklet isn’t meant to take on the entire controversy but to focus upon one area we believe is of great importance—an area that many Christians largely overlook and often even avoid—that there is confusion today between the gifts of the Holy Spirit and psychic “abilities” and powers.

Strategies of Evangelism to New Age Culture – $3.50

The current shift in popular culture is affecting the Christian Church in a major way. In recent years the emergence of the syncretistic “Emergent Church” movement has swept the evangelical world by storm. The rising flood of paganism and rebellion is overwhelming many of our culture’s historical “antibodies” against it. The roots of the shift are many and deep, and focusing upon them is not this booklet’s purpose. What concerns us here is what Christians can do to reach out.

Visualization, Imagination & the Christian: Differentiating Between Biblical Prayer and Meditation and Occult Visualization – $3.50

Although originally the sphere of secret occult societies and private practitioners, the explosion of New Age / occult thinking in the past forty to fifty years has thrust occult visualization techniques into enormous popularity both in secular society and in the Church. In some instances, Christian teachers who have been confused about the difference between the two approaches have unknowingly promulgated occult methods. These days occult visualization techniques abound in many vital areas. 

Worldview Comparison Chart –$1.50

This handy chart compares the biblical worldview with the Eastern religious worldview in 6 major areas: the nature of reality, the problem of evil, the nature fo good and evil, the solution to evil, the nature of Jesus Christ, and the view of the serpent/dragon.

The Christian and Yoga – $2.50

It’s everywhere these days. Schools and universities teach it. Health clubs promote it. The YMCA and YWCA (once Christian organizations) have classes in it all the time. And it constantly appears in popular magazines. Is yoga really as harmless as it seems? And is it for Christians?

The Devil’s Doorways is not available at this time.

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Coming Soon!

Our new novel, 

The Glittering Web

Email editor@logosword.com  

for a free PDF of the first chapter
and advance notice of publication

Recognizing deception isn’t easy—especially to Loren and Eve Montcrest who are convinced they’re on the true path. Newly initiated into Seattle’s Arcane Institute, the elite training order of their occult society in the year 2025, they become caught up in a fast-paced succession of intrigues and adventure that rocks their love for each other and even their sanity—and brings them to the brink of destruction. But in the fierce battle for their souls, God is working to strip away the glittering web of false spirituality.

“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.” 

(Isaiah 59:19, KJV)

Visit my new Logos Facebook page!

A new Logos page on Facebook was a very welcome Christmas present from my high-tech son Eric. Please sign up for regular updates about the publishing world! Lately I've been focusing on the revolution in ebooks and self-publishing.
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A must read for self-publishers

I've just finished reading Mark Levine's The Fine Print of Self-Publishing, 4th ed., and cannot recommend it highly enough if you are considering self-publishing a book. In fact, you proceed at your own peril if you don't read his book before you commit to a self-publishing company.

Levine is a lawyer who has provided a stellar service for authors who are wandering in the jungle of self-publishing opportunities proliferating on the Web today. The book contains the following eye-openers:

• The 8 “must-have” qualities of a good self-publishing company.
• How much the top self-publishing companies mark up printing.  Many mark up printing between 100%-300%.
• The actual royalty amounts paid by self-publishing companies and how they are calculated.
• The legalese of self-publishing company contracts dissected and explained.
• Detailed analysis of the contracts and services of 25 top self-publishing companies.

Muddy Waters sells to Lighthouse Trails Publishing

Lighthouse Trails Publishing has bought Muddy Waters: An Insider's View of North American Native Spirituality, which I ghostwrote for author Nanci Des Gerlaise (pseudonym). An expanded reprint is coming in March 2012, which will include new information about Nanci's life and struggles with Native spiritualism and a deeper look at the impact of New Age spirituality in general. The retail price will be $12.95. Go here if you would like to order in advance.

A new day for self-publishers

It wasn't so long ago that the general assumption dominated that traditional publishing was the only way to go for authors. But I've been doing a lot of research into the area of self-publishing and am astonished at how quickly that view is changing--and much to the benefit of authors.

In a webinar by literary agent Meredith Barnes that I just took on self-publishing, she stated her belief that self-publishing isn't stigmatized any more in the general market. Traditional publishers are now seeing it as much more competitive and a huge opportunity for authors to gain the best publishing experience. It's also a way for authors to test their works. Publishers are scrambling to get on the self-publishing bandwagon.

This article by Joel Friedlander points out why "there has never been a better time to be an author, and to have a message, a cause, or a story you want to bring to the world."

If you're interested in self-publishing, I strongly recommend his website. It's full of useful, current information and links about the topic.

Endorsement by Execustaff

I've been doing freelance editing of college textbooks for Execustaff Composition Services for the past five years and recently received this fine endorsement from them.

Execustaff currently has a staff of seventeen outside editors. Linda Nathan has consistently provided exceptional copyediting and thoughtful comments to the authors and publishers that we support in college textbook preparation. We have come to expect and request that all of our editors follow her lead when preparing their edit work for us.  She continues to impress our staff with the flexibility to provide her editing on time and often ahead of schedule. This allows us to provide a very tight production schedule and completed books, ahead of others in the college textbook industry. In the past five production seasons, Linda has been, and will continue to be, the first choice of our production staff for copyediting. 

--Jerry Hayes

Editors and the self-publishing revolution

Richard and I enjoy dinner before the meeting.

Last Monday evening, May 9, I was a panelist for the May meeting of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild at Hugo House in Seattle.

The discussion focused on the current digital revolution in self-publishing and new ways for editors to help their clients. This is an exciting time for both writers and editors because it's now so easy to publish and promote our work.

Many authors are ending up being neither bestselling nor niche sellers, but independent. Online tools are now by far the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective way to reach an audience. And authors who can use a lot of different media to promote their message will be the most successful.   
 
As a result, many editors are morphing into publishing consultants who understand how to help their clients get quality work out in both print and e-media. This has been my approach for years now, and one I enjoy greatly. I believe a writer's best approach is to be as flexible as possible--and have fun while doing it.

Some reasons for the immense, growing popularity of self-publishing:       

• A tight economy    
• Old, established publishers are freezing acquisitions.
• New fiction writers are having an especially tough time.
• The self-publishing revolution is wiping out many small publishers.
• POD and e-books are hot and easy to create, with no big author output.
• Authors have complete control, can reprint at will, set their own marketing schedules, and make much more money if their product sells.
  Self-publishing opportunities offer improved quality and far more choices. 
  Many self-publishers now offer marketing packages. 
• Royalties are far better. 
• Self-published authors can make more money if they have a quality product and good marketing.
• Some self-published authors are making a lot of money rapidly.
• It's cheaper and easier than ever to publish, obtain, and use e-books.

Stay tuned for more on the publishing revolution.
Any questions? Email me.