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What If They Were Right?: Hell, Salvation, and the Antidote to Evangelical Fear by Benjamin Rokholm

Many people who leave evangelical Christianity find that the beliefs go long before the fear does. Years later, a question still returns in unguarded moments: what if they were right?

Benjamin Rokholm carried that question for many years, and what finally loosened it was not a new argument about the afterlife but a test: the fear claimed to rest on Jesus’ own teaching, and that claim can be checked against the Gospels.

The book works through hell, salvation, heaven, the end times, Satan and original sin, then stays with the reader in what comes after leaving.

Download What If They Were Right? by Benjamin Rokholm while it’s free on Amazon October 21-25.

Forever Girl by Brian McQuilkin

It’s October, 1997, and Arlo Merrin spends his time driving an ambulance through the back streets of South Jersey with his co-workers, Corinne and Buddy. When he’s not at work, he’s holed up at a corner bar, smoking too many cigarettes and drinking too much Guinness.

Then people close to Arlo start meeting violent, nightmarish ends. At the same time, Arlo witnesses the impossible: a woman standing across the street from a murder scene, a woman who too closely resembles his wife, Julie, who died from cancer six months earlier.

When the police play a 911 call recorded at the scene of the murder and Arlo hears Julie’s voice, his life spirals as he becomes convinced that the woman he loved has returned from the dead. And she wants Arlo to join her in her grave. In order to protect Corinne, the one woman who offers him an escape from his grief, he needs to make a gut-wrenching decision that could destroy him.

“If you appreciate literary horror, small-town autumn mysteries, or character-driven stories where grief is just as terrifying as the monster, make room on your reading list for this debut.” – Reedsy Discovery

Download Forever Girl by Brian McQuilkin while it’s free on Amazon October 30 – November 2.

The God Exception: Why God Doesn’t Get a Pass by Ima Quinn

It started with a conversation in a break room. A coworker brought up God, Jesus, miraculous healing, fulfilled prophecy and many other fantastic religious claims. Ima Quinn was certain the claims didn’t sound right, but had no reason a believer would have to take seriously. Many more conversations ended the same way: certain the claims were wrong, but unable to explain why.

*The God Exception* is the result of years spent closing that gap. Drawing on the scientific method, Ima Quinn devised a simple way to test religious claims: ask what a claim predicts that we don’t already know, then check whether it holds up. It works on most kinds of religious arguments, from eyewitness reports and miracles to prayer, morality and the problem of evil.

Short, plain-spoken and fair, it’s the book the author wishes had existed that day. Reedsy Discovery called it a “Must Read.”

Download The God Exception by Ima Quinn while it’s free on Amazon October 17 – 19.

Still Seen: A 90-Day Devotional for Senior Women – Daily Readings on Being Seen, Remembered, and Held by God by Ruth Ellen Hartley

Most devotionals are written for young mothers or busy professionals. This one is written for the woman in her sixties, seventies or eighties who sometimes wonders whether anyone still notices her.

Still Seen offers ninety short daily readings, each about five minutes long. Every day begins with a single verse from the King James Version, connects it to something from an ordinary day (a photograph kept in a drawer, a hymn sung from memory, a quiet afternoon at home), and ends with one small thing to do. Nothing that requires leaving the house or feeling your best.

It is gentle, honest about the hard parts of growing older, and steady in one conviction: that God has not stopped seeing you.

Download Still Seen by Ruth Ellen Hartley while it’s free on Amazon October 16 – 20.

The Little Book of Burnout Recovery: 5-Minute, Judgment-Free Tools to Restore Your Energy and Quiet the Guilt: No Time, Money, or Willpower Required by Nathan M Anthony

You’re standing right outside your own front door, hand resting on the handle, not turning it yet. The lights are on inside. Someone’s waiting for you. And you just stand there, because opening that door means being a person again, and you don’t have a person left in you tonight.

You’re not sad. You’re not sick. If someone asked, you’d say you’re fine, and you’d probably believe it while you said it.

This is what burnout actually looks like. Not a breakdown. A front step, a hand that won’t turn the handle, and nothing left to walk in with.

Download The Little Book of Burnout Recovery while it’s free on Amazon October 15 – 17.