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Do you think your preconceived notions of church stand up to historical evidence and contemporary objective reaction? Are you brave enough to have your ideas challenged? Here are two books -- Jim & Casper Go to Church and Pagan Christianity -- that will start you thinking ... if you dare.

Karen Kingsbury is America's favorite inspirational novelist with over ten million books in print. Her Life-Changing Fiction has produced multiple bestsellers, including Ever After, which was named the 2007 Christian Book of the Year.

After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Riley Covington is living his dream as a professional linebacker when he comes face-to-face with a radical terrorist group on his own home turf. Drawn into the nightmare around him, Riley returns to his former life as a member of a special ops team that crosses oceans in an attempt to stop the escalating attacks. But time is running out, and it soon becomes apparent that the terrorists are on the verge of achieving their goal: to strike at the very heart of America.

Whether it is social injustice, AIDS, bad preaching, or wrecked marriages, what breaks the heart of someone who loves God most likely breaks God's heart too—and it is often these “firestorms of frustration” that God will use to enlist you in setting what is wrong in this world right! Bill Hybels invites you to consider the dramatic impact your life will have when you allow your holy discontent to fuel instead of frustrate you. Using examples from the Bible, his own life, and the experiences of others, Hybels shows how you can find and feed your personal area of holy discontent, fight for it when things get risky, and follow it when it takes a mid-course turn.

The name ignited a light in Carl's mind. Saint. He'd been covertly recruited for Black Ops and given his life to the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet . . . Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality.

The germ--an advanced form of the Ebola virus--has been genetically engineered to infect only those people whose DNA matches the codes embedded within it. Those whose DNA is not a match simply catch a cold. But those who are a match experience a far worse fate. Within days, their internal organs liquify. Death is the only escape.

House by Frank Peretti & Ted Dekker Enter House - where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose...and the only way out is in. The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman - or worse - could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed.

Two pillars of their faiths come together before a crowd of thousands to debate and defend their beliefs -- one for Christianity, the other Islam. Author Michael Licona does a superb job of taking the reader back in time as Paul and Muhammad give good arguments, presenting facts and clarifying misconceptions concerning Jesus' resurrection. "Read with an open mind and you will enjoy this fictional debate," Dan Waggoner.