W Thompson: 74 books

Studies in Upplandic Runography is a detailed treatment of the runic inscriptions from the province of Uppland, Sweden, where runic art reached a high point in A.D. 1200 and where runic inscriptions are most numerous. Most of the runic monuments discussed are from the eleventh century, an important period...

Get Lost. . . and Find What Really Matters   We are made for freedom and adventure, friendship and romance. Yet too much of life is spent unfulfilled at work, restless at home, and bored at church.  All the while knowing there is something more. You’ll find some of life’s best moments waiting...

In the not so distant future, entertainment game shows will devolve into savage gladiatorial matches where elimination of any kind means a painful death. Television networks have given in to the rising demands of their audience to produce more shocking material. People have gradually lost interest...

In the hard times of the 1930s, Fin Barker sends Casey Carpenter to find his son who has run away to avoid prosecution for murder.

You can know who you really are. Know you matter … a lot.One of the biggest issues facing Christians these days is the attack on our identity. We are so often told what our identity is by those around us, or we become influenced into thinking what we should be through friends, the media, and our...

Mike MacDougal sails from Seattle for the Philippines with a group of scientists, they to learn more about Dr. Minerva Booger, brain surgeon, and her work with cannibals, he to learn what has happened to his mother who was sent to interview the doctor and has disappeared.

This book has a truckload of villains, but no lone protagonist who fights the odds against success, so you can't call it a novel. Rather, it's a series of stories about biblical heroes from Adam and Eve to Peter, with fictional characters who show up when I need them to make things clear and tie the stories together.

Widower Pete Erickson resurrects an abandoned sailboat and sets out for Alaska with a rich widow and her son as paying passengers. He's ignorant as a clam, but she knows about the valuable cargo the villain hid in his boat and will stop at nothing to recover.

This brief treatise asks and answers the question "Does God Smoke?" As it does so, it sets forth the three great boons of life, how they have blessed humanity, and with missionary zeal, have been scattered worldwide.

Molly Malone, from San Francisco, goes to Iowa to learn something of her family's roots. After she graduates from the University, she agrees to teach for two years in the corn-fed town of Hoover with its generally bigoted eye on life and a particularly sharp eye on its teachers. Miss Malone breaks the mold.

Annabelle and Delilah Lovland inherit Grandpa's run-down log lodge in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. They lack money for renovation and face a $280,000 mortgage plastered on them by Cleo's husband Percy, who wants to steal the property.

At the end of "North to Alaska," after Pete Erickson has been married for fifteen minutes, Mrs. Reverend Helgesen convinces herself that he wishes he had married her instead of "that foreign-looking woman." She's right.

Chances are you know someone who is gay--a coworker, family member, or friend. And chances are, as a Christian, you're not exactly sure how to relate to this person. While the church has been pretty good at "hating the sin," it hasn't really known how to "love the sinner" without...

What is the ultimate purpose of pastoral ministry? What emphases and priorities should take precedence? In the day-to-day emphasis on various pastoral roles and pragmatic concerns, what can sometimes get lost is the theological foundation for understanding pastoral ministry. James Thompson...