Nick May
Список книг автора Nick MayDitch the Building
Sometimes going radical means getting to the root. Sometimes it means pulling something up by the roots. What is it that is keeping you from doing what God wants you to do? There are many books about how to do church «right.» There are programs for every imaginable thing you might want to improve in your church. There are at least as many measures by which you can determine whether your church is successful. Ditch the Building ditches that approach and asks you to look at what God is calling you to do, and how ingrained church structures are keeping you from actually following that call. Nick May doesn't claim to know what you're supposed to be doing, or even what's stopping you. What he does know from the experience of growing up in church, working in a megachurch and then pastoring a church plant, is that many of you are precisely at that point. You likely have at least the glimmering of a vision of what you believe God is calling you to do. When it comes time to start doing it, however, you find things in your way. It may be things in your own life or things in your church. Ingrained structures may be your physical building. They may be your order of worship. They may be found in your Christian education department where you are implementing innovative ideas to prepare your children and youth to live in the 90s–1890s. We often hear that God hasn't changed. This is supposed to tell us that we don't have to change either. But people and culture do change, the challenges change. We have to find God's way of responding and building God's people. If you want to live out your life comfortably, don't buy this book. If you think the church today is just fine, don't buy this book. But if you hear the call to follow wherever God leads, no matter how radical that makes you seem, then buy and read this book. We're not telling you that this book will change your life. We're hoping that after reading it, you will be empowered to let God change your life, your ministry, your church, and our world.
Minutemen
MINUTEMEN (Second Edition) is the story of 4 dudes who who get mixed up with a prolific stripper queen and end up making a huge mess with no foreseeable way of escape. Thom, John, Nate and Ezra are reeling from each of their respective relationships coming to a most disappointing end. When the Gulf Oil Crisis ensues, B Nocturne, a pimpess and strip club owner, recruits each of the young men to manage her quickly-growing economy of illicit activity-a result of her brilliant plan to capitalize on the oil cleanup effort. Once the boys are in place, a series of spills occurs-causing the hazwopers to come swarming and the beach-side Moss Head Motel (B's headquarters) to become the grounds for the biggest, ongoing nightly bazaar of illegal recreation the Gulf town of Indian River has ever seen.
Megabelt
Here is the follow-up to the much talked about and read, Megabelt. Five years ago, Nick May wrote about his growing up in what is known as the Bible Belt. The story of Gil, Cal, Everyman, Grey and more resonated with people who also lived in this section of the United States, and allowed those who did not, to look through the knothole in the fence. Stories included dinner on the grounds, gospel singing, summer camp and ice cream socials. We laughed and cried and asked for more. Nick May has answered our request with a new Foreward and a new chapter. The book is now approximately 140 pages.
Molecricket
"Though I had never met S.M. Stagwerth, it still felt as if I had stood there with Him atop all those train cars, beneath all those pitched tents, where curious congregants would gather momentarily and be swept away by His saline verbal prowess." – Mole Cricket Twelve-year-old Moses Cotton discovers dangerous mysteries, from a plague of field-mowing mole crickets to the long ago death of a fanatic evangelist named Stagwerth. Will Moses' persistence destroy his family, even the whole town? This is author Nick May's third writing adventure. He began with the folktale, Megabelt, and followed it with the thriller, Minutemen. He and his wife, Kayla, live along the Gulf Coast with their dog, Brother.