Jeff Walton

DEATH IS NEVER THE END Illumination Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner for the year's best new titles written and published with a Christian worldview 2021 Gold Medal Winner - Religious Fiction - eLit Awards - Illuminating Digital Publishing Excellence Silver President's Award - Florida Author and Publishers Association 2021 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner for Christian Fiction "If you've ever wondered what happens the second after you die, you need to read this book. Written by an author with years of investigative experience as an NCIS special agent, it strips away the popular disinformation about hell and exposes the evil taking place right under our noses by people who worship Satan." Coach Joey Wiles, Senior Associate Director of Athletics, Flagler College; former Head Football Coach of the three-time Class 3A State Champion St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets. Did you grow up reading the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew? Can't get enough Sherlock Holmes or Jack Ryan? Then the addictive Divine Return from Jeff Walton is for you. This is the kind of book that inspires binge-reading; you won't be able to put it down. Drawing on his years of investigative experience, Walton offers the reader a Christian suspense novel that reads like a cross between John Grisham, Tom Clancy, and Tim LaHaye. But BEWARE, because at times you'll need to remind yourself that this is just "fiction" and not something being ripped from the headlines. Divine Return challenges the reader to look beyond their knowledge of the Bible, religion, and preconceived notions to consider how the events of today that are unfolding may have been foretold in scripture many years ago. Walton's Divine Return reveals the horrific realities of hell, our inevitable march toward the end-times, but offers the overarching redemptive power of Jesus Christ who is the only HOPE in these troubled times. Divine Return delivers a profound and thought-provoking message that underscores that this life is not the end but just the beginning. It will pull you in and help to point you where you need to go in this life and the next Joe Zelenka, MBTS Thirteen-Year NFL Veteran and Christian Teacher Divine Return picks up where award-winning Final Departure left off... A phone call from a dead friend? Dan Lucas never fully recovered from the shock. But in his former line of work, NCIS, Dan had learned how to brush off death and deception. Until now... Confronted with a man who'd mysteriously come back to life, he has to tell the world about the reality of life after death. But on the way to trumpeting the truth, he gets pulled into the dark and evil world of the satanic elite. Can he save his friend's son, who's marked for death? Can he convince a pastor of a failing church that he has to preach that the world is coming to an end to save it? Can he force himself to stand tall and reveal the evidence from the past that foretells the future - a warning that all need to hear? Can he expose the evil that's hiding in plain sight? Dan rises to each challenge but has some unexpected help along the way. Does Dan pull it off - and if so - how?

This devotional helps married couples to navigate the storms of life together. Working through the book of Job, Sarah Walton (author of Hope when it Hurts) and her husband Jeff reflect on their own experiences in a marriage that has faced chronic illness, baggage from the past, a child with neurological challenges, and financial difficulties--and show how to cling to Christ and each other.This is not a "how to" guide on having the best marriage, but, rather, a walk alongside you and your spouse, sharing the realities of suffering and the effects it can have on a marriage. It is an encouragement to lift your eyes above your trials, off your spouse, and onto our all-sufficient Savior.

Is death the end of life, or only the beginning?Are heaven and hell real?Does it matter how you live your life?Retired NCIS special agent Dan Lucas's chance meeting with atheist professor Ben Chernick turns into a marathon test of wills over the meaning of life and death. Does God really exist? Is Jesus Christ really the savior of the human race? Is science ignoring the mounting evidence that life continues in another spiritual dimension? Dan argues his case by revealing his research using counterintelligence operational methods to expose the truth about near-death experiences and other divisive topics. A battle of the minds enduring through a night of peril ends in a final showdown that no one could foresee.Who will you believe?Final Departure is an entertaining yet thoughtful and informative message: Take eternity seriously or you'll have a really long time to regret it. Spurred by his interest in near-death experiences and similar phenomenon, Walton pieces together the research from a number of different disciplines, secular and Christian alike, into a sobering novel about life and death as well as heaven and hell and the evidence that supports the existence of both. Jeff Walton's work is a departure from the traditional Christian apologetics book or Christian inspirational novel. Set in the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the story begins with retired NCIS special agent Dan Lucas, who gets stranded overnight by an ice storm and then ensnarled in a contentious, often raucous marathon debate about God and the meaning of life, with fellow traveler Ben Chernick, a college professor who has neatly excluded the Almighty from every facet of his life.The tack taken by Walton, though, is different. He injects the analytic mindset and steely determination of a counterintelligence professional into the Dan Lucas character. Through Lucas, we glimpse into the hidden world of NCIS counterintelligence and combating terrorism operations and investigations.Walton, a retired 29-year NCIS veteran and self-avowed Christian, injects some of his personal history into the story to give it authenticity.Not preachy, and certainly not shy, Final Departure focuses the reader's attention on who gets into heaven and who misses the cut--and the chilling results the latter produces. It also poses some hard questions about how life originated and developed on earth as well as what impact, if any, evil really has on mankind. Through his characters, Walton calls out what he perceives to be a secular, antireligious bias in our culture--a bias that prevents today's society from considering real-time events from a supernatural, biblical perspective. Distressing, yet at the same time reassuring, Final Departure gives the reader layers of action and themes that touch on some of life's most profound questions: How did we get here? Does it matter how we treat others? What is the real meaning of life? Tightly woven with a backdrop of human tragedies and edgy side forays into drug abuse and crime, the story pulls the reader along as the main characters bare their souls and allow the reader access to their core beliefs and thoughts about betrayal, remorse, forgiveness, and love.Final Departure is a statement and a challenge. If you can, disprove the author's assertions projected through Dan Lucas. But keep your mind open and be objective. What you read may change the way you live. Walton believes that Final Departure will take you on a journey with no return flight. He might even get you to the destination he has in mind.