Once he graduated from high school, he decided that he wanted to become a musician and joined a local bluegrass band where he played banjo. Now referred to as one of America’s hottest Christian novelists, he is a publishing phenomenon with more than 12 million of his works in print. Peretti grew up in Seattle, where as a youngster he would tell animated stories to neighborhood children. Peretti is a Christian fiction author that has been described as a natural storyteller best known for his inspirational and children’s novels. Probing (With: Angela Elwell Hunt,Alton Gansky,Bill Myers)įrank E.

Piercing the Darkness has been criticized along with Peretti's first novel This Present Darkness on literary and theological grounds.Hybrids (With: Angela Elwell Hunt,Alton Gansky,Bill Myers) As the story unfolds, the lawsuit and its participants are soon locked in a struggle of ethics versus non-ethics, absolutes versus relativism, right versus wrong, and those with interest in this battle are shown to be even in the highest places of government. Before the paths that Sally Roe and Tom Harris are on collide, the Ashton Clarion editor and his wife, Marshall and Kate Hogan (from This Present Darkness), make a return appearance as veteran fighters in this war against the powers of darkness that threaten freedom of religion everywhere.

Caught in the crossfire is a little girl who's been forced into a curriculum of 'meditation techniques' and 'inner spiritual guides' that control her moods, attitudes, and actions, the little Amber, and her mother Lucy who realizes this lawsuit and the people who are 'helping' her may be much, much more than she bargained for. Seeming to have no connection with other events at first, a young police officer, Ben Cole, is convinced what is being brushed off as a suicide is actually a murder, and ends up losing his job over the issue, which brings him to the side of the embattled Christian school.

His kids are ripped from his home by Child Services. Also told is the story of another small town, similar to that of This Present Darkness and called Bacon's Corner, and a resident named Tom Harris. It follows the journey of Sally Beth Roe as she tries to escape her past and slowly overcomes her constant struggle to discern the Truth. Combined, This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness have sold 3.5 million copies as of 2012. They have also increased an interest in spiritual warfare. The book, along with This Present Darkness, has been instrumental in promoting belief among Christians in Territorial Spirits. Piercing the Darkness won the ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award for best fiction in 1990. It shows contemporary views on angels, demons, prayer and the spiritual realm. Piercing the Darkness, which was published in 1989, is a sequel to Frank E.

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