The Perfect Storm arrived. The power grid was destroyed. Society collapsed and anarchy rose. Can courage and the love of family ensure survival? International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, delivers up-all-night thrillers to over a million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. The Perfect Storm, a natural disaster caused by the sun, resulted in the collapse of America's vulnerable power grid. When two successive blasts from the sun slammed into each other, they forged a Perfect Storm so intense that our planet's magnetic field was no match for its fury. What was supposed to be a phenomenal light show, a spectacle like no other, devolved into chaos, mayhem, and death. "Bobby Akart is a genius at creating disaster scenarios." In the weeks following the Perfect Storm, most struggle to survive. Others use the collapse as an opportunity to better themselves. Criminals and the law-abiding alike find ways to take advantage of those unable to defend themselves. Ordinary Americans found themselves separated from their families, facing the worst of mankind. They pulled together in an effort to survive. However, they now face a greater threat than the sun itself - their fellow man. "Engaging characters that are so real, they could be your neighbors. Or you!" However, it's not only the big cities that faced challenges. Rural America was not spared from those who took advantage of lawlessness. "Masterful and suspenseful!" Set in the countryside of Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Cubbison family faces harrowing challenges as they finally reunite with one another. A new threat emerges and of their group must make a choice between family and those providing protection. "No one can research like Bobby Akart and then turn this meticulous research into one exciting thrill ride." Perfect Storm 4 is so intense and captivating that it will have you whispering just one more chapter until the end.

A true story of men against the sea.

About sixty miles north of Houston on Interstate 45, a giant statue soars above the piney woods of East Texas. It's a white concrete image of General Sam Houston, the first and third president of the Republic of Texas. Like everything in this state, it is oversized, and at seventy feet tall, it's the largest statue of an American hero in the country. The statue welcomes the traveler to Huntsville a small sleepy college town that was the home of Sam Houston, and which now is the home of Sam Houston State University (SHSU) and another Texas icon, the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC). On one side of its wall, convicts struggle with the rigors of prison life, and on the other at the university, another group of youths struggle with the demands of college. The contrast between the two serves as a metaphor for modern American life. This story is seen from the point of view of a man who experienced events on both sides of the prison wall. On one side of the wall, Randy White was a guard known as Boss White to the inmates. On the other side was Randy White, a college student in 1972 and the Bearkats' (the SHSU basketball team) official statistician. He was part of the story when the Bearkats became a basketball legend in the early seventies. Football is the renowned culture of Texas. If one has any doubts, then look at the Dallas Cowboys and the popularity of its cheerleading. Now there are cheerleading squads in the NFL as well as on the college football scene. There is nothing new or unique about that. But none are as famous as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. To make the squad and wear the white short shorts and blue-and-white bolero jackets today is more prestigious than making the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes back in the forties. Such is the stature of football in Texas. So Texas is definitely football country. Basketball lives in the outskirts, something to be played in between football seasons. Sam Houston State University's basketball team had been lackluster for forty years. Nobody expected much from SHSU basketball in 1972. Until the early seventies, back when a bunch of basketball players, intent on winning, burst on the scene like a perfect storm. Such as the one that brewed up one October day off New England, and it came out of nowhere. A confluence of different weather-related phenomena had combined to produce what was termed a perfect storm. That same perfect storm hit Huntsville. It was as if someone had put into a cauldron a unique combination of talent, coaching, spirit, camaraderie, and a new social awareness and mixed them up and out came a dream team, a dream season, a perfect storm. This is the story of that perfect storm, that dream season.

The church is heading into a “perfect storm” of cultural forces. Will you sink beneath the waves, or ride the winds of the Spirit? An array of cultural forces is coming together to present the church with unprecedented challenge and unequaled opportunity. Such “category 5" realities as postmodernism, postChristendom attacks on belief in God, and the threat of global warming have coalesced to make a “perfect storm” that will leave people uncertain of their place in the world, and all they have previously believed in. Like the disciples when Jesus calmed the storm, the church can cower and cry out for relief. Or, when everything is spinning and whirling in the wind, the church can go out to meet the storm, embrace the gale, . . . and pass out kites. From the Circuit Rider review: "Like other books Sweet has written and compiled, The Church of the Perfect Storm is thought-provoking and compelling. The material flows in such a way that allows readers to grasp the gravity of the situation. However, as with most futuristic material, there is also a sense in which readers may want to know: 'Okay, now what? Where do we need to steer this ship? Are mainline and evangelical churches so off-course as to fail to weather the rising tides that are here and soon coming?' Readers of this volume may enjoy the description of a post-Christendom world, but they may also want to know more about the prescription for the days ahead. (Click here to read the entire review.)

Navigating Your Perfect Storm is a set of reflections, insights, and illustrations for those who seek to follow Jesus today in a turbulent world.

Priscilla is a perfectionist. When things don't go as planned, Priscilla and everyone around her gets caught up in her perfect storm. Join Priscilla as she learns how she can stay calm and deal with her frustration the right way.