We are in the midst of a great reformation! God has been sovereignly moving to restore the offices of apostle and prophet to us which, according to Ephesians 2:20, are the very foundation of the church. But as those who are called to be God's apostles and prophets in today's church attempt to relate to one another, their efforts are often met with pain, frustration, and misunderstanding. In addition, pastors are also often at a loss for knowing how they should relate to apostles and apostolic teams. In this book, Jim Laffoon takes an honest look at the problems within these relationships and offers sound and practical guidelines for moving beyond the barriers into the fruitful, divine alliance that God needs to build His church and fulfill the Great Commission.

Jim Laffoon

Jim Laffoon serves on both the North American and International Leadership teams of Every Nation Churches. He is also the International Director of the Schools of Empowerment. Jim and his wife Cathy have been happily married for 39 years, and they currently live in Franklin, Tennessee, outside of Nashville. They travel across the United States and around the world, ministering prophetically and pastoring leaders.

The mental health book you’ve been looking for! Cowritten by an experienced pastor with decades of private practice counseling experience and a renowned psychiatrist with over a decade of local church leadership experience, Mental Health for Spiritual People is sure to help followers of Jesus experience mental and emotional wholeness in a biblically and clinically faithful manner. Mental Health for Spiritual People seamlessly addresses mental health from an integrated biblical, medical, and counseling perspective. Deep truths and years of clinical and biblical expertise are brought together in a uniquely readable and accessible format. You won’t have to abandon your faith to find mental health. And you won’t have to abandon science to hold onto your faith. Instead, you will get Mental Health for Spiritual People. When you dive into this important book, you too will say “Finally, the mental health book I have been looking for!”

Keith Tower

Pastor Keith Tower has been serving as the Senior Pastor of HighPoint Church in Orlando, Florida, since 2005. Keith is a PhD candidate in Organizational Leadership and holds a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Indiana University. He has been providing mental health services in private practice since 2001. Keith serves as a Professor of Leadership at Every Nation Seminary. He is a national board member of Blue Line Support, which provides crisis services to law enforcement personnel, and serves multiple law enforcement agencies as a member of his county’s Critical Incident Stress Management team. Keith leads mental health seminars and team-building seminars around the world. He and his wife, Jennifer, lead marriage and parenting workshops globally as well. Prior to his ministry and counseling careers, Keith played in the NBA for the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Clippers, and Milwaukee Bucks.

Dr. Marcy Verduin

Dr. Marcy Verduin is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, where she has served as the Associate Dean for Students since 2010. She received her MD degree from the University of Florida and completed her residency training in Psychiatry and a fellowship in Addictions at the Medical University of South Carolina. 

Dr. Verduin has held several national leadership positions within psychiatric and medical organizations in the US, and she is coeditor of a major psychiatric textbook series which has been translated into multiple languages. Dr. Verduin has a heart for people who are suffering, and she is passionate about helping them better understand mental health concepts and regain freedom, hope, and joy in their lives. She is a long-time member and leader at HighPoint Church in Orlando, Florida, and ministers to pastors and leaders globally on mental health and well-being. 

God uses diverse friendships to fulfill his miraculous will in the world.

In an increasingly polarized world, our collective ability to navigate friendships with people whose backgrounds, experiences, and views differ from our own has diminished. Along the way, valuing diversity has come to be seen by many Christians as a secular pursuit. However, we love and serve a diverse God (being three unique persons himself) who taught us to love those we tend to have a hard time loving: outsiders, enemies, foreigners, the poor, and the weak.

In Friendship Can Save the World, Carrie and Morgan Stephens offer an invigorating retelling of Ruth, Boaz, and Naomi to help us love people unlike us. Weaving in real life stories from their multiethnic, multigenerational, and socioeconomically diverse church, they highlight the power of unique friendships in God’s greater missional story. Readers will find inspiration to love and be loved more courageously as we all forge a path into a more redemptive future.

Carrie Stephens

Carrie Stephens is a writer, speaker, secret donut hoarder, and mom of four. She loves Jesus and His church more than coffee and good Tex Mex. Her first non-fiction book, Holy Guacamole (Shiloh Run Press), released in February of 2020. Carrie was also a contributing author in The Christian Mama’s Guide to Having a Baby by Erin Macpherson (Thomas Nelson, 2013). Her essay, Broken Prayers, was included in Kathy Lipp’s book, Praying God's Word Over Your Life (Revell, 2013). Carrie loves communicating through story, humor, empathy, and Christ-centered teaching. She regularly speaks at churches, conferences, women’s retreats, Bible studies, on panels, and in leadership settings.

Carrie and her husband, Morgan, started out as campus missionaries at the University of Texas, and have helped lead Mosaic Church, a richly diverse community of faith in Austin, Texas, since 2010. For more information or to inquire about having Carrie speak at your event, visit carriestephens.net.

There is an ongoing narrative that has often been taken as truth in the Body of Christ: "Black people will follow a White pastor but White people will never follow a Black pastor." This book acknowledges the history from which this narrative came while looking to push a new narrative where the whole Body of Christ can benefit from the gift of Black leadership. Many books have asked, "How do we see diversity in the pews?" But this book looks to see diversity in the pulpits and leadership rooms of these churches.

Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor leads the multiethnic congregation of Every Nation Cincinnati. He also serves as the chaplain for the University of Cincinnati football team and on the leadership team for the Mosaix Network. Dr. Brian Taylor received his Doctorate of Ministry degree from the great Asbury Seminary in Kentucky and has been in ministry since 2002. He and his wife Chavonne moved from Orlando, FL in 2013 to plant Bethel Cincy, now Every Nation Cincy, and have three awesome kids—Elijah, Saniya and Joshua.

Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson is the founder and lead pastor of Divine Unity Community Church based in Harrisonburg, VA. He graduated from Bridgewater College with a Bachelor of Science, Eastern Mennonite Seminary with a Master of Divinity, and from Asbury Theological Seminary with a Doctor of Ministry. 

Having experience in preaching the Word domestically and internationally, Pastor Chris holds great passion for seeing the spiritually dead alive, revived, and actively serving God. Being centrally based between varying university campuses, and involved in the local community, Pastor Chris possesses a strong vision of multi-ethnic and multi-generational ministry. Committing himself to grow effective leaders within the body of Christ, he pursues an atmosphere of discipleship, leadership development, and empowerment.

Freedom and Healing: The Birthright of Every Believer

A shattered self-image, toxic relationships, emotional brokenness, and a painful past seal us off from the abundant life Jesus promised if left unchallenged by the power of God. Born to Be Free is for those who are no longer willing to settle for life as it is, but who desire to walk in the peace and fullness God has promised—a life transformed by the healing and freedom purchased by his blood for every follower of Christ.

Don’t settle for a life limited by pain and bondage one more day. In Born to Be Free you will discover:

• God’s promise of freedom and healing at the heart of the gospel.

• The power and authority given to every believer to overcome the assaults of the enemy.

• How to experience God in intimate conversation to receive healing.

• Solid, biblical understanding of the spiritual roots of pain, failure, and broken relationships.

• How to partner with God through agreement, prayers, and declarations to secure God’s healing and freedom that will transform your life.

In Born to Be Free, pastor Tom Vermillion shares principles and processes for receiving the wholeness and freedom Jesus purchased on the cross for every believer. The transforming power of Christ, accessed by these principles and practices, has ministered healing and freedom to hundreds of believers who were once bound to a painful past, oppressed by the enemy, and stifled by a broken sense of self. In Born to Be Free, you will find a way to claim your birthright of health and wholeness in Jesus.

Tom Vermillion

Tom Vermillion is an associate pastor at Mid-Cities Community Church in Midland, Texas. Tom has been pastoring in churches for over thirty years.

"Shake off rote religiosity and tribalism with a spicy bite of God’s truth seasoned with an authentic connection to his love and his people.

“Let me do something for you.”
Carrie Stephens offers these words of hope from the heart of God in Jesus, Love, & Tacos as she uses vibrant metaphors and comical self-deprecation to tell the story of lordship, community, and mission. These three ancient values will offer you help and hope as they shape your spiritual life, define how to gather in unity, and lead you to God’s missional love in action.

In the face of fear, sickness, and increasing polarization, Carrie provides a fresh encounter with the lordship of Jesus to right-size your expectations and transform your view of your life.

By looking at the example of the early church, you’ll find yourself brave enough to swallow your insecurities and forge ahead into the sometimes-painful world of the Church where healing and life happen through God’s faithfulness.

In this world of never-ending suffering and neediness, reconsider the call to missional living afresh. Living with a mission will reinvigorate your connection to God and others, where you’ll find unexpected meaning and surprising opportunities.

When you reach for the plates of truth and grace offered in these pages, you’ll reconnect with a God beyond your comprehension who is intimately involved in the details of your life."

Carrie Stephens

Carrie Stephens is a writer, speaker, secret donut hoarder, and mom of four. She loves Jesus and His church more than coffee and good Tex Mex. Her first non-fiction book, Holy Guacamole (Shiloh Run Press), released in February of 2020. Carrie was also a contributing author in The Christian Mama’s Guide to Having a Baby by Erin Macpherson (Thomas Nelson, 2013). Her essay, Broken Prayers, was included in Kathy Lipp’s book, Praying God's Word Over Your Life (Revell, 2013). Carrie loves communicating through story, humor, empathy, and Christ-centered teaching. She regularly speaks at churches, conferences, women’s retreats, Bible studies, on panels, and in leadership settings.

Carrie and her husband, Morgan, started out as campus missionaries at the University of Texas, and have helped lead Mosaic Church, a richly diverse community of faith in Austin, Texas, since 2010. For more information or to inquire about having Carrie speak at your event, visit carriestephens.net.

We are in the midst of a great reformation! God has been sovereignly moving to restore the offices of apostle and prophet to As adults, we often get confronted with our own brokenness and how that affects us as we do life in our communities and with the people around us. At times, our own self-awareness will tell us something is off, but for the most part, the health of our relationships will be a strong indicator that we might have unresolved brokenness. As adults, we are expected to take responsibility for fixing what is wrong. The world expects this of us. But what if we don’t understand what is wrong or A biblical understanding of your spiritual gifts, coupled with knowledge of how to activate and utilize them for God's glory and the good of those around you. This book will equip you with a fundamental understanding of the spiritual gifts outlined in 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11 and offers practical instructions for exercising these gifts.

Reggie Roberson

Reggie became a follower of Christ at the age of 15. At that time he also received his call to full-time vocational ministry. Three years later, he started studying at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, where he graduated with majors in Psychology and Political Science. Through the campus ministry chapter at UNC he got connected to King’s Park International Church. After graduating from university, Reggie trained for vocational ministry in a joint program with Fuller Theological Seminary. Over the next 15+ years, he has served as a traveling speaker, trainer, and campus minister. At King’s Park, he has held the positions of Teaching Pastor and Senior Associate Pastor. When asked what motivates him, he says he is passionate about helping people encounter God and equipping them for Christ-centered service. Reggie is married to Pastor Bomi, who is our Women's Director, and they have three children.

We are in the midst of a great reformation! God has been sovereignly moving to restore the offices of apostle and prophet to As adults, we often get confronted with our own brokenness and how that affects us as we do life in our communities and with the people around us. At times, our own self-awareness will tell us something is off, but for the most part, the health of our relationships will be a strong indicator that we might have unresolved brokenness. As adults, we are expected to take responsibility for fixing what is wrong. The world expects this of us. But what if we don’t understand what is wrong or broken? This book is an attempt to empower you with language for the difficulties you might be experiencing, and guide you to determine its origin. With understanding, we can create clarity around what we struggle with and so approach God and receive healing. In this book, you will be challenged to start understanding where you come from. When we are honest and specific about our childhood, our parental relationships, and family dynamics, a lot about who we are today will start to become clear. And when you can put language to the pain and pinpoint where the shame lies, you will be able to effectively move towards healing and restoration. Whether your childhood was filled with trauma or void of the love you know you should have received, this book will help you pinpoint the origin of your current difficulties and take you on a journey of healing. God loved you then and He loves you now. Read it prayerfully. Read it together with close friends who can pray with you. Read it with hope.

Trevor Botha

Growing up as a pastor’s kid, Trevor has been in the ministry his whole life. He felt a call towards full-time ministry while a student at the University of Pretoria. After graduating with a degree in Banking, he attended a part-time Bible School and after that, a full-time missions training school.

In 2001, his life took a detour and he landed on the shores of Europe. During the next ten years that followed, he joined Every Nation London and was blessed with a wonderful spiritual family and ministry experience in over fifteen nations.

In 2004 he married Yvette at the foot of the beautiful mountains in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Soon after, they answered the call to plant a church in Belgium. After Micah and Monet were born in England in 2006 and 2008, they moved to the beautiful historical city of Ghent, Belgium where they were blessed with two more boys, Sion (2011) and Luka (2014). The church started off in 2010 in our living room and has grown into a vibrant hub for young people who now call Every Nation Gent their home church.

He loves his job and the opportunities it presents. For him, nothing is more satisfying than to see people meet their Saviour and grow in relationship with God. His biggest joy is to help young people develop their leadership potential.

Life in Europe has been windy, wet, and wonderful. He would not exchange it for anything.

Have you ever felt on the edge, alone, down and out,
or maybe wondered what in the world God can do with someone like you?

Sometimes you wake up feeling less than great about your life. Or your relationships. Or your job. Or your whatever.

Sometimes you even feel pushed to the side, put on the shelf, overlooked, and not particularly important to, well, anything.

Sometimes, you feel even less important. . .than a side of rice and beans. (You know, kind of like that stuff served on the side that no one really asked for?)

What if you found out you were something more like tableside guacamole—that fancy kind they wheel up to the table and make right on the spot?

What if you were made on purpose,
for a purpose that can release God’s glorious colors and flavors in the world?

You didn’t arrive here by accident, nor have you been served up as an unwanted side dish. The God of creation has created you, and He isn't waiting for you to become some better version of yourself so He can finally love you. . .or use you. . .or delight in you.

Generously seasoned with humor and empathy, with stories of triumph, failure, heartbreak, and redemption, Holy Guacamole will connect your heart to the unchanging truths of God’s Word and the unfailing power of God’s call to live a life full of His love for you and for the world.

God longs to reveal to you all the ways you are His beautiful, flavorful, colorful creation. Let Him show you all the ways you are Holy Guacamole—His masterpiece, His signature offering to a world in need of His love.

Carrie Stephens
Carrie Stephens is a writer, speaker, secret donut hoarder, and mom of four. She loves Jesus and His church more than coffee and good Tex Mex. Her first non-fiction book, Holy Guacamole (Shiloh Run Press), released in February of 2020. Carrie was also a contributing author in The Christian Mama’s Guide to Having a Baby by Erin Macpherson (Thomas Nelson, 2013). Her essay, Broken Prayers, was included in Kathy Lipp’s book, Praying God's Word Over Your Life (Revell, 2013). Carrie loves communicating through story, humor, empathy, and Christ-centered teaching. She regularly speaks at churches, conferences, women’s retreats, Bible studies, on panels, and in leadership settings.

Carrie and her husband, Morgan, started out as campus missionaries at the University of Texas, and have helped lead Mosaic Church, a richly diverse community of faith in Austin, Texas, since 2010. For more information or to inquire about having Carrie speak at your event, visit carriestephens.net.

Life and Doctrine is about bridging the gap between the lives we lead and the God we need. Perhaps you're checking out Christianity -- this book is designed to help you take a clear look at the Christian story, and invite you to believe it. Maybe you've followed Christ for a long time—then this book will help you narrow the gap that exists between what you believe with your head and do with you life. Come discover how the truth and grace of the Christian story. Come discover Life and Doctrine.

Adam Mabry

Adam is the Lead Pastor of Aletheia Church in Boston, MA — a growing, diverse church passionately committed to bringing the truth, grace, and the changing power of the Gospel for the glory of God and the good of all people.

Adam is married to the love of his life, Hope, a profoundly gifted musician, photographer, educator, and mother. About 4 months after marriage, they were radically and unexpectedly called into ministry, moving them to Edinburgh, Scotland to help plant two new churches. For five years, they labored alongside a great team, had two more children, and saw God do amazing things. Today there stand two new churches where there were none — a wonderful grace — growing and thriving under great leaders.

In 2010, they planted Aletheia Church in Boston. Fueled with a passion for God’s truth and grace to permeate all areas of society, Aletheia began in their living room, and has not ceased to grow and reach those who were once far from God. Adam now leads a diverse, disciple-making team who lead the church with him.

Completing Master’s Degrees at Reformed Theological Seminary (M.A.) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and a D.Min from Gordon-Conwell, he will soon complete his Ph.D. at The University of Aberdeen. In demand worldwide as a teacher and preacher, he has also written a few books, such at The Art of Rest: Faith to Hit Pause in a World that Never Stops, and Stop Taking Sides: How Truth in Tension Saves us from Anxiety and Outrage. In 2019, he joined the faculty of Every Nation Seminary as a Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies.

He presently resides in the Boston area with his wife, Hope, and their four children, Alanna, Nora, Cole, and Wyatt.

Did Jesus Really Exist?

The search for the historical Jesus continues to be headline news. Any speculative theory seems to get instant attention as the debate rages about His real identity and the claims made in His name. Did Jesus really exist? Is there real historical evidence that demonstrates that He lived and actually said and did the things the Gospels record? Is there any validity to the speculative claims that the Jesus story was a myth, borrowed from a variety of pagan cultures of the ancient world?

In this follow-up to the book God’s Not Dead (that inspired the movie), Man, Myth, Messiah looks at the evidence for the historical Jesus and exposes the notions of skeptics that Jesus was a contrived figure of ancient mythology. It also looks at the reliability of the Gospel records as well as the evidence for the resurrection that validates His identity as the promised Messiah. Man, Myth, Messiah released on March 1st, concurrent to the God’s Not Dead movie sequel, which covers the same theme.

Rice Broocks

Dr. Rice Broocks is a cofounder of Every Nation and is a senior minister at Bethel World Outreach Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He also serves on the Every Nation Apostolic Council. He holds a master’s degree in theological studies and a doctorate in missiology, and has authored several books including God’s Not Dead, Man, Myth, Messiah, and The Human Right. With a team of apologists and scientists, he focuses on equipping college students around the world to defend their faith through the God’s Not Dead event series. Dr. Rice and his wife, Jody, are based in Franklin, Tennessee, and have five children.

High Ceilings details the beneficial freedoms and boundaries that God assigns for women, wives and mothers.

Brett Fuller

Brett Fuller is the founding pastor of Grace Covenant Church, a multi-ethnic, multi-site, multi-generational church in Northern Virginia. He also oversees a church planted from his congregation in downtown Washington, D.C.

Brett also serves on the Apostolic Council and North America Leadership Team of Every Nation, and as chaplain of the Washington Redskins. His experiences of racism growing up in the United States has made him intentional about unifying peoples of diverse backgrounds, bringing them closer to an image of heaven. In 2000, he initiated a bill in Congress to build a memorial honoring the African American slaves that helped build America. Though the bill was never passed, he still hopes to complete the mission.

From 2007–2009, Brett served on President George W. Bush’s Advisory Board for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

He and his wife Cynthia have seven children.