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Beneath the Graffiti; A De-churched Christian’s Search for Christianity

The past 2000 years haven’t been kind to Christianity. Though the way of life that Jesus lived and taught remains clearly visible in the pages of the Bible, it’s not always visible in modern churches. Today, what many people experience is not the Christianity that Jesus lived and taught.

 Jesus Christ created a masterpiece when He established what came to be called Christianity. But over the centuries churches have marred and corrupted Jesus’ masterpiece with their manmade and worldly agendas, rules, doctrines, beliefs, and traditions. In some churches the manmade obscures the God-made to the point where Jesus’ masterpiece is barely visible.

Sensing that the Christianity he had been experiencing was influenced more by man than God, many years ago CJ Penn left church and stepped off on a journey in search of the masterpiece. Like CJ, have you ever wondered about the authenticity of the Christianity you’ve experienced?

Follow CJ Penn as he peers beneath the accumulated graffiti of church history and human nature, where you too can experience Jesus’ masterpiece. And if you’re one of the millions of people who feel God was missing from their experience of church, this book will show you where to find Him.

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We Called Him Yeshua

Step back in time to Jesus’ world, and follow Him as He travels the dusty road to Jerusalem. For those who did follow, they followed Him to the end, though for them, that end was a new beginning.

“It can be hard feeling close to God. The divine can feel intimidating and unapproachable. Yet it was easy feeling close to Yeshua, for though he was both God and human, to us he felt more human. You may know of him by his divinity and his Greek name, Jesus Christ. We knew him mostly by his humanity and his Hebrew name, Yeshua. You may know about him by what you read in the Bible or hear in a sermon. We knew him by his presence in our lives. My name is Anna, and along with my brother Neri and the others, I’d like to tell you about our time with Yeshua. We’d like to show you what it was like and how it felt to follow him.”

Based on stories in the Bible, We Called Him Yeshua imagines following Jesus Christ as he traveled the dusty roads of ancient Israel. Told from the perspective of those who followed, their stories will help you see what they saw, feel what they felt, and experience Jesus as they did.  What they experienced was not only the healing power of God, but also the love, compassion, and humility of a friend.

When they first met Jesus, they felt almost like life was beginning anew. Then, they followed Him to the end. And for them, that end was another new beginning.