Visitation addresses the topic of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) from the perspective of a Christian witness to an encounter with one. As distinct from the usual encounter narratives, the author’s encounter changed his mindset from an agnostic to a Christian believer while endowing him with an unexpected richness of information regarding the nature of God. While much of the account is devoted to describing the event and its more important aftermath, the author also links the UFO phenomenon to God and the Bible, supplying unique insights into the character and interactive roles of the three Members of the Holy Godhead.
This book takes a fresh look at what Scripture has to say to mankind about the nature of God and how readers are to interact with Him. There is a tantalizing hint in Holy Scripture that its New Testament writers had an understanding of the nature of the Trinity that went beyond our present knowledge. The early Church fathers may have possessed that perspective of God as well, an understanding which may have been lost along with the initial purity of the Church, as civilization descended into the dark ages. Addressing the full deity of Jesus Christ and the divine inspiration of Scripture, the essays often push the envelope of mainstream Christian thought.
LOVE – The fundamental driving force behind all human relationships. The inexpressible joy of love fulfilled, and the profound agony of love frustrated. The empty desolation of indifference. The glory of God. To know God intimately is to know the love that is shared within the Godhead, binding Father, Holy Spirit and Son together as a Divine Family, forever inseparable and eternally loving. The love within the Godhead is so brilliant that it radiates outward in the Light of Christ, embracing Creation and infusing us with its benign rays. Woefully, the Church herself has suppressed the full brilliance of this Light in the name of a false purity. She has for centuries covered the lamp of God’s love, denying the Church the ability to openly obey God’s greatest commandment, that of loving God intimately and intuitively with all our hearts, souls and minds. Something drastic happened to the early Church that involved the tampering of its basic precepts and even the interpretation of Scripture. Lurking in the background almost from the beginning of the Church, it gained influence around the time that Constantine changed the status of the Church from a persecuted and repressed movement to a state religion. This Christian nonfiction work addresses the root of this enormous error and its historic and ongoing debilitating effect on the Church. An alternative vision of God is presented to the reader, and its basic truth is examined in the light of Scripture, which the author embraces as inspired and inerrant in the original.Marching to a Worthy Drummer: A Christian Layperson Speaks Out About the Holy Spirit.
Uncle Art’s Bible Favorites: A Study Guide to the Bible is a compendium of explanatory articles, each of which addresses some facet of the Bible. While the chapters are brief enough to accommodate typical Bible study sessions, they avoid the superficial treatment usually given to the subject matter. In fact, much of the material addresses issues that, despite their importance toward understanding the God of our Bible, are rarely given the attention that they deserve.The chapters are organized around seven primary themes arranged in separate volumes – the relationship between the Old and the New Testaments, time as it applies to God’s domain, items of unique interest, the feminine side of God, the depth of God’s loving nature, God’s character, and Israel as God’s special nation. The organization itself is somewhat arbitrary, inviting the Bible study leader or student to choose the sequence in which the chapters are selected, according to the preference of the individual or group. The topics not only offer sorely-needed insights into the nature of God, but are truly the author’s favorites in their ability to evoke a sense of wonder over God’s magnificent nature and domain as well as the enormity of His love toward mankind. The topics covered are suitable for wide range of age levels from the early teen years for mature students through adulthood. Many of the subjects, as selected by qualified study leaders, would be appropriate as well for precocious pre-teens.
This first novel in the Buddy series from Art Perkins is a love story – but one told in a deeper way than the typical romantic adventure, because it is a story not just between people, but with the romance God shares between Himself and mankind.
“Buddy” follows Earl and his pain at the tragic loss of his wife. Through dealing with his own grief and the pressures of his job, he dives into distraction with his hang gliding activity. Through an unexpected encounter with God, he volunteers his time at a local nursing home and befriends a young man afflicted with cerebral palsy.
Joyce, whose husband had been killed by a drunk driver, meets Earl at work. Sharing much in common with each other, they find themselves forming deep connections with each other. At the same time, connections also are developing with God and with Buddy, bringing Earl and Joyce through a series of adventures into a unique understanding of God.
Buddy is a story of these connections and how God works through the Holy Spirit to bring people, broken in their own ways, to Him in love.
IT’S CLOSING TIME…
The Tribulation is here – NOW. God is coming back for His Church… But before He does, Earl and Joyce have a special mission to complete.
The Church Age is about to end, bringing the world to the fearfully-anticipated Seventieth Week of Daniel, the final seven-year period spoken of by the prophet Daniel in Chapter Nine of his book in the Bible. Daniel’s Seventieth Week dovetails with Jesus’ description of the Time of the End in Matthew 24 and His yet more detailed description of the Great Tribulation and its awesome terrors in His Revelation to John.
Earl and Joyce have found and treasured their second chance for love as told in the prequel “Buddy”. Now they find themselves in the midst of the transition from the Church Age to the restoration of Israel as the apple of God’s eye, put on hold at the Pentecost following Jesus’ resurrection. Israel might find itself in God’s favor, but first she has to survive, because it’s also the time of Jacob’s Trouble as spoken of in the thirtieth chapter of the prophet Jeremiah. But God through Jeremiah also promised to save Israel out of her woes and, like the words of the prophet Zechariah who said that salvation would come to all of Israel, told her that He would be their God forever.
God can do this by Himself, but that’s not the way He works. Instead He is choosing a few very special and courageous people out of His Church to endure the worst of the Tribulation while they help with the restoration of Israel. Earl and Joyce are among these key people, and their mission will bring danger and pain to their doorstep as an increasingly dictatorial and self-serving society attempts to thwart God’s plans.
TIME’S UP…
The great war of Israel’s annihilation looms near as God prepares his special people. There’s just enough time left for Jacob to experience the salvation of Israel and come to a loving relationship of his own with God and an extraordinary woman.
In the midst of the human suffering that accompanies the descent of world government into a monolithic, repressive and all-seeing despotic tyranny representing the reign of the long-anticipated antichrist, Earl and Joyce Cook and several Jewish fugitives are on the run from a death camp where God has intervened through a devastating earthquake to free them.
With their leader Jacob Perlman at the helm, they have commandeered a military truck and are heading cross-country into an unforgettable adventure that will see Earl and Joyce parting company from Jacob to pursue their own unique mission within the boundaries of the old United States, now part of the North American Region. Jacob, meanwhile, along with the other newly-minted Messianic Jews, has been given a critical mission of their own. Somehow, they must find a way to reach the besieged Jewish homeland of Israel to share the knowledge that the Holy Spirit has imparted to them.
Their adventures merge into the events foretold long ago by Jesus and the ancient prophets Daniel, Ezekiel and Zechariah as the world, driven by power-drunk madmen under the control of their evil master Satan, heads unavoidably into the final Battle of Armageddon. As in the previous two novels of the Buddy Series, the adventures color insights into the nature of God that are suitable for an in-depth Bible Study of concepts and associations rarely, if ever, presented to the lay public.
A courageous Christian couple have a well-deserved taste of heaven… But only a brief sampling before they must return to earth to embark on another mission of importance to God and their own futures as members of the Church in her role as Bride of Christ.
As Earl and Joyce pursue their mission in America, Israel and her implacable enemies clash in the first skirmishes of the great war of Israel’s annihilation.
In this fourth novel of the Buddy series, Earl and Joyce Cook pick up their battered bodies from the street in Texas where they had been brutally assaulted and left for dead, and head out on a new mission to free a fellow Christian. They are joined by a courageous Israeli spy to form a team dedicated to bringing the Word of God to Americans who have resisted the acceptance of the dreaded mark of the beast described in Revelation 13 and 14.
As the Americans encounter numerous hazardous obstacles to their pursuit of their objective, Jacob and his new wife Moira witness the beginning of open warfare between Israel and her hatred-laden neighbors as foretold in Psalm 83. After a brief interlude initiated by God, the follow-on battle of Ezekiel 38 and 39 ensues, forcing Jacob and Moira into dangerous confrontations with the enemy. The Chinese join the final battle over Jerusalem as the conflagration expands to involve the entire world. When all seems lost, God introduces a wild card into the melee – a large tribe of fighters, known the world over as brave and fierce warriors but never before associated with Israel.
The adventures and romantic involvements of the key characters merge into the events foretold long ago by Jesus and the ancient prophets Daniel, Ezekiel and Zechariah as the world, driven by power-drunk madmen under the control of their evil master Satan, culminates in the final Battle of Armageddon. As in the previous three novels of the Buddy Series, the adventures color insights into the nature of God that are suitable for an in-depth Bible Study of concepts and associations rarely, if ever, presented to the lay public.
Closing time for Man’s government on Earth has passed. The grand event of Jesus’ return is now history, with His Church now enjoying full fellowship with their Lord and Savior.
Excitement and pleasure cover the new arrivals into heaven with their loving embrace. The Church’s unity with Jesus and each other brings with it the joy of participating harmoniously together in adventures that span the cosmos. Forgotten are the multitudes of people consigned to a different end through their willful rejection of the only Source of rescue from their savage descent into violence, depravity and destruction. They and memories of their sad lot have been wiped away from all remembrance of those fortunate inhabitants of God’s heavenly domain.
BUT THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS.
Some people still inhabit the Earth in widely-scattered communities. Those who remain on Earth are still encumbered with their sins, having acknowledged Jesus without coming to a truly loving understanding and acceptance of His work on the cross on their behalf. Jesus loves these people with passion, but wants more from them in the way of selfless nobility. The great physical violence that accompanied the Earthchange rivaled that of Noah’s Flood, leaving these inhabitants of Earth bereft of all but the most basic of life-sustaining food and shelter. God allowed this descent into life-threatening poverty for the purpose of developing characters capable of receiving the love that He wishes to endow them with. They’re not left alone. Jesus has provided them with help – people like Jacob and his wife Moira who belong with Him in heaven but remain on Earth with the special task of bringing this group into Jesus’ loving fold.