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Naturally, you want to know what Athanatos means. Athanatos is Greek for ‘immortality’ or, ‘not dying.’ If Christianity is true, that’s what we are: immortal. We are adventurers unleashed for glory, freed from the burden of sin and made fearless in the face of death. This ministry is the outgrowth of my apologetics ministries over the last decade.

No longer do I believe that the best, exclusive use of my time is to reach out to and contend with atheists. Today I believe that the Church needs to expand its vision and methods in order to keep people from falling away in the first place.

The United States is a mission field. There are some things that matter to people today (like stories, movies, etc) that we can use but have been needlessly abandoned to secularists. It is partly the aim of this ministry to re-capture and re-employ what was always properly within the domain of Christian thought.

That means that Athanatos Christian Ministries will strive to produce thoughtful educational programs that are consistent with historic, orthodox, creedal Christianity, but also seek to connect through literature, through music, through story, among other methods we might imagine. Athanatos Christian Ministries is a big picture organization. Anyone interested in joining us or learning more is invited to contact us to see just what can be done.

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Knight Time for Paris
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 94,570. Language: American English. Published: August 16, 2018 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Fantasy » General
Pigalle and Montmartre, two districts in the heart of Paris, have fallen under the influence of drug dealing gangsters who threaten not just the nation's capital, but France itself. The last thing Parisians expect is a medieval counterattack, but a handful of nobly minded men, aided by a young historian, believe that only the crusading spirit of the Middle Ages can turn the tide.
Attack of The Dogmen
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 46,780. Language: American English. Published: May 11, 2018 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
May of 1945. Nazi Germany has surrendered, but strange things are happening in a small German village near the Bavarian Alps. War weary Lieutenant Xavier Wolf and his squad - a mix of battle hardened veterans and fresh recruits - have been tasked with a mission: Get to that village and find out who's there and what's going on.
The Myth of Scientific Certainty: Scientific Theory and Christian Engagement
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 43,320. Language: American English. Published: April 29, 2018 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Research, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religion & Science
Some recent writings of the new atheist movement and those of a neo-empiricist mindset have shown, not just Christians, but the whole of the scientific community that there is a need for scientists to communicate their conclusions more accurately than before. Much of what we read may be tainted with some editorializing that pretends to be science.
Worldviews in Collision: The Reasons for One Man's Journey from Skepticism to Christ
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 80,800. Language: American English. Published: February 5, 2018 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / Wisdom Literature
The author had been a skeptic of organized religion in general, and Christianity in particular, in his younger years. Then he was challenged to examine if Christianity had any real evidence in its favor. This book chronicles that examination of the Christian faith, which led to his journey from skepticism to Christ.
The Bible for the Busy: A Two-Hour Tour of the Old and New Testaments
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 21,850. Language: American English. Published: December 7, 2017 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / Bible Study Guides, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / Wisdom Literature
Yeah, we get it. There's no time in our lives anymore to sit down and read just to enjoy or learn. Even if we carpool or take a bus or train to work, school, practice (or whatever), we're probably working on something--or just trying to catch up on lost sleep. Right? If that sounds familiar, "The Bible for the Busy" is for you. It's a highly condensed version of both the Old and New Testaments.
The Arc of Light
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 61,860. Language: American English. Published: October 25, 2017 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action
Hillsboro was not a normal town. This was a well-established fact, but no one truly knew the depths to which their town's mysteries and secrets went. When a confounding event rattles the community to its core, it sets off a chain reaction that leads five children to discover perhaps Hillsboro's most dangerous secret yet--one that threatens their very existence.
Songs From the Pit
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 36,210. Language: American English. Published: July 7, 2017 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christian Life / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christian Life / Inspirational
This devotional is for those who are dealing with grief and depression. Massey has walked the grief walk. His wife died suddenly from a brain aneurysm . Riddled by the consequences of complicated grief, one sleepless night, Massey made a commitment: "I will give my grief a voice." Grief may be your reality but it does not have to have the final word.
ISIS and the Smoke Ghost
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 41,450. Language: American English. Published: June 6, 2017 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religious Intolerance, Persecution, & Conflict, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Terrorism
Picture yourself: Born Muslim, in a strict family and living in a hard country like Iraq, soaked in blood and fire. How will you grasp God and accept him? Find love and embrace happiness? What will you do when you encounter ISIS, the radical Islamic group who has infiltrated your community?
Missional Moonshots: Insight & Inspiration for Educational Innovation
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 45,860. Language: American English. Published: September 15, 2016 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Higher
Missional Moonshots is a culmination of over a decade of research, writing and applied work around educational innovation in K-12, higher education, and beyond. It is not an academic work. Rather, it a collection of informal insights and tips for pursuing and leading mission-minded innovation in education.
Assault on Saint Agnes
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 81,970. Language: English. Published: March 26, 2016 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action
When terrorists assault Saint Agnes Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, they expect to find a congregation of lambs: they get Bobby Kurtz instead. An unrepentant Cold Warrior, Kurtz destroys the terror cell with violent finality. Against his will, Kurtz is pulled back into the life he left behind decades before. He reluctantly picks up the burden of hunting the terrorists in our midst.
How Julian the Apostate Defeated the Church in America
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,660. Language: American English. Published: December 12, 2015 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christian Church / General
Many people, Christians included, think that the American Church only cares about abortion and gay marriage. How did this come to be? In this essay, Christian apologist Anthony Horvath makes the following argument: Many of the other issues that Christians care about have been turned over to the State to administer, such as education and charity.
Jesse's Seed
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 120,250. Language: English. Published: November 6, 2015 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Christian » Historical
It's autumn, 1941. The Nazis have fired on the USS Greer; London is ablaze, and the streets of Leningrad are red with blood. Still, David Dremmer is content to work his father's ranch and dream of his best friend's wife. When the United States finally enters the war, David escapes his father's disappointment and a loveless marriage by enlisting in the Air Corps. His choice proves fateful.
Pathos: The Grand Myth
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 14,600. Language: American English. Published: April 10, 2015 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Short stories, Nonfiction » Inspiration » Spiritual inspiration
Pathos, the magazine of culture and faith, explores all the major ideas that move our world today: in politics, science, art and popular culture, and examine what they mean and how they intersect with the life of faith. Each issue also includes poetry, fiction and art from some of today's finest emerging talents.
The Christians In The Third Reich
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 29,820. Language: American English. Published: June 20, 2014 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » History » Holocaust, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christian Church / History
Confusion dominates too many discussions of the churches in Nazi Germany. Germany was not a Christian country but had been deeply influenced by powerful philosophical and scientific forces of secularism for over a century before 1933. The churches themselves were often mere facades of theological liberalism that denied the fundamentals of the faith in very religious-sounding language.
Hitler’s Religious, Quasi-Religious and Anti-Religious Ideas
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 25,680. Language: American English. Published: May 29, 2014 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / History & Culture, Nonfiction » History » Holocaust
Hitler's combination of religious and secular rhetoric has led to diverse interpretations of his fundamental orientation. How can talk about some higher power harmonize with his concept of life as a brutal and amoral struggle for survival?
The Little Girl Waits
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 82,630. Language: American English. Published: May 22, 2014 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Mystery & detective
There are evil people in the world, and they do evil things to innocent children. Pastor Butch Gregory is on a fatal collision course with such evil people. Pastor Butch's life is a happy one, filled with church meetings, sermon preparation, and leading a congregation he loves. His life is forever changed when unimaginable tragedy comes to a little girl from his church named Tamara.
The Land Begins to Heal
Price: Free! Words: 8,640. Language: American English. Published: May 18, 2014 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Short stories
One day while rummaging around in the church attic, Pastor Butch Gregory discovers evidence that something in his beloved church's past has been covered up. Unable to get it out of his mind, he begins to try and find out what happened almost forty years ago, and what he discovers opens up the floodgates of healing.
The Problem of Christian Antisemitism
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 36,130. Language: American English. Published: April 10, 2014 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » History » Holocaust
This third short book in a series shows that hatred against the Jews in the name of Christ is contrary to many plain teachings, and never in any circumstances justifiable. Yet, it was very different in motive and in results from the secular racial antisemitism that drove the Nazis and led to the Holocaust.
The Jewish People and Their Enemies
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,610. Language: American English. Published: March 27, 2014 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / New Testament
Having demonstrated in a previous ebook that the New Testament in no sense demonizes Jews, [The New Testament and the Jews], author Joseph Keysor here examines the problem of antisemitism itself. From a biblical point of view, anti-Judaism in all of its manifestations is ultimately traceable to human sin.
The New Testament and the Jews
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,050. Language: American English. Published: February 10, 2014 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / New Testament, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / History & Culture
An expert on Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible, author Joseph Keysor seeks to counter the persistent accusation that Christians and Christianity are to blame for anti-semitism and the Holocaust in particular.
Descant: The 2013 Athanatos Christian Ministries Writing Contest Anthology
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 28,910. Language: English. Published: December 7, 2013 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Short stories, Fiction » Anthologies » Poetry - multi-author
This year's collection of the winners in Athanatos Christian Ministry's 2013 short story and poetry contest reflects ACM's vision for the arts and Christianity, exhibiting theological understanding without browbeating. This year's contest winners could perhaps have their work summed up as, "Having faith when having faith is hard."
Under a Withering Sun
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 63,980. Language: American English. Published: August 11, 2013 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Romance, Fiction » Inspirational
On the heels of incredible tragedy young college student Regina Leeman arrives one summer with a journal in hand to record her life as she volunteers to teach a creative writing class at an urban recreational center. Web: www.awitheringsun.com
Life Unworthy of Life
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 51,850. Language: English. Published: March 26, 2013 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Historical, Fiction » Historical » General
Who decides who lives and dies? Dr. Viktor Gottlieb goes to work in a German hospital only to discover that he and his fellow doctors decide. As his internal conflicts grow, he comes to realize that all those silly religious sentiments he had discarded when he became a man merited more serious consideration. But will he change his mind? Will it matter? For anyone?
How Many Guards at the Tomb?
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,890. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2013 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christian Theology / Apologetics, Nonfiction » History » Jewish
Christian art portrays the tomb on Easter morn as being guarded by just two Roman guards, leading both Christians and non-Christians to give credence to an explanation that was roundly dismissed at the time: the guards simply fell asleep. In this series of essays, Christian apologist Anthony Horvath shows how artist's portrayals are not only inaccurate, but undermine what they seek to honor.
The God of Oscar's Misunderstanding and Other Stories and Poems: The Winners Anthology for the 2012 Athanatos Christian Ministries Christian Writing Contest
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 31,460. Language: American English. Published: November 29, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Religious, Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
This is the anthology of winners in Athanatos Christian Ministry's fourth annual Christian short story and poetry contest.
Peaches Perfect Party
Price: Free! Words: 630. Language: English. Published: November 21, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Short stories, Fiction » Holiday » Christmas
Kevin Custard is a man of means and influence and intends to give his dear daughter Peaches a 13th birthday party that she will never forget. He succeeded!
The Devil's Choir
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 70,270. Language: English. Published: October 23, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Suspense, Fiction » Horror » Crime
Melanie Elarton is a college student with a unique ability. Ari is a man of secrets and a member of an ancient order. They unite to find a campus serial killer, but in the process, an ancient demonic presence turns the investigators into the hunted. Will Melanie’s psychic gifts or Ari’s depth of experience be enough to save them and help them unravel the mystery before more girls are killed?
Roots and Fruits: The Conquest of America by the Culture of Death
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 12,880. Language: English. Published: October 10, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Social policy, Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Genetics
How did America become a place where those with Down syndrome and spina bifida are aborted in huge numbers? How can it tolerate aborting a child just because it is a girl or killing a twin in the womb so that only one child is born alive? Why are Americans being reduced to numbers and Quality Adjusted Life Years, poised to ration care if you are too old or infirm? This is the culture of death.
Diamonds in the Dust Reader's Guide
Price: Free! Words: 1,990. Language: English. Published: October 1, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Study guides - Literature, Fiction » Christian » Contemporary
This free study guide is designed to deepen the reading experience of Shirley Mowat Tucker's "Diamonds in the Dust." Book club leaders will appreciate having a ready-to-go reader's guide to help them facilitate their small reading groups at their local library or church. The study guide was produced with the author's guidance. Shirley M. Tucker is an award winning South African author.
Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 256,230. Language: English. Published: June 25, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Historical
In this updated edition, author Joseph Keysor addresses the growing trend among secularists to label Hitler as a Christian and therefore attribute the atrocities of the second world war to the Christian religion. Keysor does not settle for simply contrasting the Nazis' behavior with the Biblical record.
The Binding Laws Governing our Present Intellectual Anarchy
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,890. Language: English. Published: May 25, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Essay » Political, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Democracy
Are there laws that govern anarchy? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? It is, but it is Horvath's premise that intellectual anarchy is unhindered by such trivialities, with consequences that are far reaching and profoundly dangerous.
Richard Dawkins, Antony Flew, and Mother Teresa Go to Heaven: Five Short Stories
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 19,210. Language: English. Published: March 9, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Christian » Short stories, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Religious
What sounds like the beginning of a very bad joke is actually the title of a collection of short stories by author Anthony Horvath. Richard Dawkins, Antony Flew, Mother Teresa- and new in 2012, the author himself, Anthony Horvath- come face to face with their Maker, and speak their minds.
Psalm 22 And The Cross: Or, One Reason So Many of the First Christians Were Jews
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,310. Language: English. Published: February 28, 2012 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Biblical Studies / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Judaism / Theology
A great deal of commentary has concerned itself with the abandonment of Jesus, by God, on the cross, inspired by Jesus' cry, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" In point of fact, Jesus was handing out a Bible reference for his persecutors- and followers- to look into, because as it happens these are the first words of Psalm 22.
We Chose Life: Why You Should Too
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 15,520. Language: English. Published: December 7, 2011 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Women's health, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Pregnancy & childbirth
More than half of all children diagnosed in the womb with a birth defect in America are aborted. Anthony Horvath and his wife were told that their daughter had spina bifida and were immediately told that they could abort it. This is the story of that emotional week and the reasons why they chose life... and why you should, too.
In Defense of Martin Luther
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,460. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2011 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » European philosophy, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religious history
Author Joseph Keysor previously demonstrated that Hitler and the Nazis were not acting on Christian principles and exposed the true basis for destructive actions. Now he comes to the defense of Martin Luther, a person that many people try to blame for Hitler's anti-semitism. Keysor is not Lutheran, making his analysis all the more decisive.
Diamonds In the Dust
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 66,170. Language: English. Published: November 4, 2011 by apgroup. Categories: Fiction » Plays & Screenplays » African, Fiction » Christian » General
Straight out of South Africa comes the poignant tale of Ida Morgan: her husband murdered, abandoned by God, and alone in the world. Ida’s road to healing and wholeness is paved by diamonds in the dust. Author Shirley Mowat Tucker is a native South African who leads the reader into her country's secret places... places where there are still wicked men doing wicked things...
The Anti-Apologist: Philip Pullman's Covert Assault on the Christian Worldview within "His Dark Materials"
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,770. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2011 by apgroup. Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Religious philosophy, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christianity
The release of Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass" as a movie prompted new scrutiny of the messages embedded in his "His Dark Materials" series. In this collection of essays, Christian apologist Anthony Horvath affirms the existence of an anti-Christian agenda in the books, but argues that the charges commonly raised are harmless since they are easily spotted. The real 'harm' lies elsewhere.
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