Kent Evans

Jesus called God our "Father" more than 160 times. It's an important name, and if you carry that same title here on earth, you want to carry it well.Because every tool has its job, trying to get a project done without the right instrument can be more than frustrating. Troublesome. Challenging. Most of us have given up on a task because we didn't have the tools we needed. Fatherhood is a lifelong job. It's work. With all of its complicated challenges, there may have been times you've come close to checking out. Even giving up. But that's not what you want, is it? You don't want to be an average dad; you want to be a great dad. To do the job well. And to do the job right, you need the right tools.Bring Your Hammer hands you 28 invaluable lessons that will equip you to lead your children biblically and confidently. Nehemiah's godly example will arm you with the wisdom you need to be a godly father. You will nail being a dad with Bring Your Hammer.

Biblical fatherhood cannot be outsourced. Fathers are the primary disciple makers in the home. Our children are following our lead, but where are we leading them? Are we leading them towards the perfect Father, encouraging them to grow in their faith and to become the adults that God made them to be? What does a godly dad look like?

For guys, more than ever, it's a confusing world. Your GPS doesn't offer any maps showing how to get to the point of wisdom - - and who likes asking for directions anyway? But there are ways to get that guidance you need. The answers may be all around you, in the form of guys you already know. Wise guys. More experienced guys. Better-traveled guys. Could there be ways to tap into their invaluable knowledge without enduring dull lectures or taking pages of notes? Kent Evans has surrounded himself with these wise guys. They have shown him all the back roads on the way to wisdom. With a great deal of humor and an endless supply of stories, he wants to show you how to gather life-enriching truth from the guys in your own circle.

Damien Wood's path to adulthood in the last decade of the 20th century is marked with effortless success--creative, financial, sexual. Yet his half-Asian lineage with its inherent cultural clashes is coupled with the inability to be touched by feelings or the people around him. Damien's efforts to reach his inner self take him from place to place and one hollow relationship to another, but he remains stuck outside of his experiences, a robot convincingly playing the role of daredevil artist and globetrotter.Then, the century turns. As Damien's mother dies after a long and agonizing illness, and 9/11 inaugurates a reign of fear and terror, his emotions, from desire to despair, begin to emerge unbidden. These birth pangs of humanity send Damien on a mordantly comic, darkly suspenseful quest from the Americas through Southeast Asia in the company of an expatriate colony with too little to lose - including values - until violence comes to claim him as one of its own. No longer a robot, Damien has become a wanted man.A daring hybrid of adventure, verse, and travel fiction, framed by a chronicle of self-revelation in a pitch-perfect voice for the post-millennium, this book heralds the return of a novelist of impressive literary gifts.