Out of the Black Shadows – The Amazing Transformation of Stephen Lungu
by Stephen Lungu with Anne Coomes; Foreword by Patrick Johnstone of "Operation World"
Stephen Lungu, now AE's International Team Leader, was the oldest child of a teenage mother and grew up in a township near Harare, Zimbabwe. When he was seven years old, his mother abandoned him in a marketplace. Stephen grew up on the streets, scavenging food from trash cans to survive. As a teenager in pre-independence Zimbabwe, he was recruited into the Black Shadows, an urban gang involved in theft and thuggery with a half-focused dream of revolution. When a travelling evangelist came to town, Stephen and the Black Shadows went to firebomb the event, carrying a bag of explosives and mingling with the crowd. Instead of throwing bombs, Stephen stayed to listen. What happened next was more amazing than fiction . . .
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Faith Under Fire – Testimonies of Christian Bravery
by Antoine Rutayisire
As AE's former Rwanda Team Leader, Antoine Rutayisire compiled astonishing stories out of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that demonstrate God's grace in the lives of Christians who forgave those who killed family members, in murderers filled with remorse and repentance and in walls of ethnic hatred cracking and falling. Rutayisire charts the rise of Rwanda's tragic conflict, the roots of unrest and points the way out of the ashes of bloodshed for church and society in Rwanda.
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African Harvest – The Captivating Story of Michael Cassidy and African Enterprise
by Anne Coomes; Foreword by Billy Graham
This book is an extraordinary chronicle of how the Holy Spirit has been working across Africa over the last 40 years. Through AE, tens of thousands have been won for Christ and Michael Cassidy’s contribution during South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994 has arguably changed the history of the content.
“I am thankful to God for Michael Cassidy’s life and ministry and for the work which God used him to raise up on the African continent.” – Billy Graham, from his Foreword.
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The Spirit Is Moving
by Festo Kivengere
The Holy Spirit is in business these days, says Bishop Festo Kivengere, AE's East Africa Team Leader until his death in 1988. Kivengere tells of how people all over the world have experienced the love of God in a new way. He points the reader to Jesus Christ and shows what astonishing developments occur when a person comes afresh to his or her Savior.
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Love Unlimited – What God Has Done for Others, He Can Do for You
by Festo Kivengere; Foreword by Paul S. Rees
Are you busy to the point of distraction? Are you a born griper? Then meet Martha. Jesus did, and she found new peace. Are you an incurable romantic? Do you go in for the extravagant gesture? If so, meet Mary. Jesus did, and she gained approval. Are you living on the edge of society? Do you know personal rejection? You do? Meet Zaccheus. Jesus did, and he won acceptance. Meet these people and others whom Jesus met, through Bishop Festo Kivengere of Uganda, AE's East Africa Team Leader until his death in 1988. Discover how Christ in love met each person's need right where he or she lived. Though the names and places are different, you'll find yourself in a number of these stories, and you meet Jesus face-to-face each time.
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I Love Idi Amin – The Story of Triumph Under Fire in the Midst of Suffering and Persecution in Uganda
by Festo Kivengere
The Christian church in Uganda sensed a new power at work as it endured ruthless persecution under the infamous dictator Idi Amin. It was a power that could bear up under the unpredictable whims and savage persecutions of Amin. It was a power that answered threats with reason, torture with endurance, execution with love. It was the power of the living God, released as it was perhaps nowhere else on earth during those years. Festo Kivengere, then the Ugandan Bishop of Kigezi and East Africa Team Leader of African Enterprise, documents the growth of this power, tracing the steadily increasing confrontation between the Christian church and the government of Idi Amin. He gives an eyewitness account of the climax of that confrontation – the assassination of Janani Luwum, the Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, on February 16, 1977. He relates his own flight from the country two days later, under cover of darkness. I Love Idi Amin is the dramatic story of how God used pain and suffering to build a new Bishop and a new church for His glory.
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Light on the Way – Robert Murray M'Cheyne's Classic Daily Bible Reading PlanIntroduction by Michael Cassidy
Do you seek a deeper understanding of the Bible? Do you struggle with figuring out where in the Bible to read, and when? The simple daily plan contained in this booklet, developed by Scottish pastor Robert Murray M'Cheyne, has stood the test of more than 150 years and undergirded the spiritual vitality and ministry of such respected Christian leaders as John Stott and Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Light on the Way will be a great help to any who desire to have their minds and hearts illumined daily by the Scriptures.
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Chasing the Wind – Man's Search for Life's Answers
by Michael Cassidy
“I looked at everything I had tried. It was all so useless – a chasing of the wind.” – Solomon. Can sense be made of our fascinating and complex world? Is it possible to get past materialism, indifference and disbelief to consider the existence of God? Michael Cassidy believes that it is. Looking carefully at such knotty issues as evolution, the advance of science, the reliability of the Bible and the historical Christ, he finds the evidence for a loving God overwhelming. “I have written this book for those who feel they are seeking for a living faith, but who are not sure if they can in full intellectual integrity commit themselves to Jesus Christ. My hope is that these pages will assist them along the way and lead them into life’s most glorious discovery, that of finding Jesus Christ as Savior, Lord and Friend.” – Michael Cassidy
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Making an Impact – Pursuing Ministry Effectiveness in the 21st Century
by Michael Cassidy
Jesus wants all His followers to “bear much fruit” (John 15:5, 8). Most Christian pastors and laypeople are eager to see this in their lives – but how? In Making an Impact, Michael Cassidy highlights the importance of those in ministry having a clear Christian conversion, good theological training if at all possible, and a well disciplined personal life. Building on top of this foundation, Cassidy outlines the imperative of forging a balanced, biblical and active harmony of vigorous evangelism with a deep socio-political concern, part of whose expression is focused through Christian love into caring compassionately for those around us in any sort of need.
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A Passion for Preaching – The Demanding Privilege of Biblical Proclamation: My Struggles and Lessons Along the Way
by Michael Cassidy
If you are called to preach the Gospel, do not stoop to be a king. In A Passion for Preaching, Michael Cassidy shares autobiographically of how he came to discern and take hold of the Lord’s call on his life to be a preacher of the Christian Gospel. He writes of times of breakthrough and excitement, but also of mortal fear and even physical illness prior to certain nerve-wracking public challenges. Yet he can conclude that: “My path into preaching has been long, arduous and often costly. But I can say with all my heart that not only has it become the most exciting and fulfilling activity of all life but also the most rewarding. To know that many people have found eternal life or been encouraged in their faith by one’s preached word is to know that God still endows this seemingly weakest of enterprises with his special blessing and anointing. If the Church could find a renewal of confidence in the power of biblical preaching it would find that it had stumbled on one of heaven’s greatest keys to spiritual life and growth.” A Passion for Preaching will be an inspiration and encouragement for all who seek to preach effectively.
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Leadership Lessons from Grandma
by Christopher Doyle
"People want to make leadership so complicated," says Christopher Doyle, Executive Director of AE U.S.A. "But leadership simply is influence. You do it well by influencing people through actions and words." Doyle's grandmother, Vivian Mary Rooney, did both. Born in 1900, she survived two world wars, the Great Depression, the death of two husbands and a daughter. Yet she remained positive and upbeat, with more friends than anyone could count. Doyle concluded one day, "Her sayings were not just words. They were real wisdom. Added to all her other gifts, she was a wise woman. And these sayings have meaning today. They are words to live by, perhaps to die by. But certainly to lead by."
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Michael Cassidy's Window on the Word
by Michael Cassidy
Window on the Word is a collection of 60 daily reflections, providing refreshing insight into the Bible. Readers will be drawn to the truth of God's Word as they enjoy the vigor and humor of Michael Cassidy's keen observations. The two-month devotional guide contains a daily Scripture reading, as well as a concluding prayer.
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Getting to the Heart of Things – Reflections on Christian Basics
by Michael Cassidy
In our tumultuous age of moral confusion, conflicting religious claims and convulsive world events, Michael Cassidy penetrates to the heart of the Christian message, enabling believers to hold fast to “the faith once for all delivered to the saints”. Michael grapples with such timely issues as tolerance, religious pluralism, the centrality of the Cross, the importance of conversion, the Person and work of the Holy Spirit, biblical truth, objective morality, and Postmodernism to give Christians an unshakable footing from which to live confidently in a world of uncertainty, doubt, and hostility to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
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Thinking Things Through – Christian Reflections on some Contemporary Ethical Issues
by Michael Cassidy
Right or wrong? Good or bad? Truth or error? Do these words still have meaning in our 21st century world? Michael Cassidy believes they do, and seeks with characteristic insight and graciousness to shine the truth and light of Scripture into some of the most contentious issues of our time. With the Bible in one hand and today’s newspaper in the other, he grapples with knotty matters – such as divorce, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, money, work and environmental stewardship – that often divide Christians in disagreement and distrust. With the heart of a compassionate counsellor and a knack for making the complex simple, Michael writes as a layman to enable his fellow believers to think more clearly and biblically on tough issues, and thereby to live more Christianly in an increasingly fractious and confusing world.
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Where Are You Taking the World Anyway? – The Ten Most Important Years of Your Life and How to Make the Most of Them
by Michael Cassidy
"This thing of life is tough to face," says Michael Cassidy, Founder of African Enterprise, in Where Are You Taking the World Anyway? "But face it we must if we are to make any sense of where we are heading. And the natural time to work out some answers is during our youthful years, during the time between 15 and 25 – the time that could fittingly be called the decade of decisions. These are important decisions indeed, decisions whose consequences will be with you all your days. Your whole character, personality and being will be affected by decisions you make in the teens or early twenties. You will live with the decisions you make. You will be a product of those decisions." And Where Are You Taking the World Anyway? will help you ensure that the decisions you make in those years will be godly ones that will bring you blessing.
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The Passing Summer – A South African's Response to White Fear, Black Anger and the Politics of Love
by Michael Cassidy; Foreword by Richard John Neuhaus, Introduction by John Perkins
Michael Cassidy's magnum opus to his South African brothers and sisters is a classic and prophetic appeal for true renewal, justice and reconciliation in a society convulsed by the injustices and cruelty of apartheid. Written in 1989, on the cusp of South Africa's transition to a nonracial democracy, "The Passing Summer" is still relevant in its biblical case for Christian social involvement and offers a trenchant and sympathetic accounting of the South African history that led to the apartheid system.
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