David Howell – Houston, Texas - Breaking Into Prison

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A CBM Christian Author Press Release

David Howell – Houston, Texas - Prison evangelist, multi-published Christian author and businessman, David Howell, has a call from God to “Reach millions with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

David Howell’s new release, Breaking Into Prison, presents God’s unfathomable love, grace, and kindness through the showcasing of God’s glorious working through the transformation of an unredeemed life to be filled with zeal to spread the Gospel to prisons and detention centers across the United States and abroad. God in His kindness brought the author out of his old ways of being self-centered, a drug addict, an alcoholic and a womanizer to reveal an unending story of God’s abundant Grace! 

Yet, this book is not a biography on David Howell. This amazing book reveals how God wastes nothing, even past failures, and creates a new vessel of honor and glory to represent God and in such a way that is pleasing to God. Faith, hope and the new life in Christ are found. Freedom and peace can be one’s portion in life. 

Howell’s book sheds light on the importance of the atonement of Christ, God’s gracious gift of salvation, and is bringing freedom in Christ to millions of prisoners. His ministry and books offer an in-depth and an easy-to-understand format with Scripture and visual representation that helps prisoners grow spiritually. Foundational truths of coming to Jesus represents the importance of the regeneration of the spirit, the renewal of the mind in Christ Jesus and brings the truth of the Gospel in simple ways. David Howell also includes shocking statistics of prisons, jails, and detentions centers, that despite the common myth that Christian material is easy to come by in prison, the material is often missing and insufficient. 

David Howell’s nationwide prison ministry is serving the local prison, chaplains and inmates with salvation and true discipleship. As founder of Prison Evangelism (www.prisonevangelism.com), his books have reached over 5 million in prison. Lives and families are being transformed through such. David Howell’s Prison Evangelism’s mission and goal is to fully “reach the incarcerated for Christ in Federal, State and local prisons, jails, and detention centers throughout the United-States and beyond.”

As a multi-published author, David Howell, has published such next step books such as: How to be a Child of God (Witness Edition), Fully Alive and Finally Free, Seeking God Through Prayer and Meditation.

Breaking Into Prison
Publisher ‏ : ‎ David Howell (November 5, 2021)
Language : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 244 pages 
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0578923550

For more information about David Howell, his prison ministry, or his books, visit: Prison Evangelism, The Prison Evangelism Mission Page, Media Page and How To Be A Child of God.  You may also get your copy of Breaking Into Prison at Amazon in paperback and at Kindle in ebook. 

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CBM Book Review - Westward Lies the Sun

Westward Lies the Sun ( A Novel)

Robert H. Kono

A CBM Christian Book Review

10.0 out of 10.0 stars

A Must Read - Westward Lies the Sun (A Novel) by Robert H. Kono is an epic novel blending historical fiction of the Japanese internment camps during WWII with the grandeur of love, romance, legacy, Samurai and Japanese heritage with the question of God and the reality of the spiritual realm. 

The novel unfolds revealing Greg, his life and past, as the author captures each time period of his life well. Greg’s conversations with his friends and his own self-doubt being a Japanese American experiencing his own subculture being Japanese, which has caused Greg to question his own self-worth stemming from teenage years. Feeling culturally divided coupled with the trauma he had to endure throughout his growing up years, he feels displaced culturally. “He felt as though he were a pioneer or explorer, out to hack his way through the wilderness of the identity question.” (p. 11) This is just an example of the writer’s way of conveying this mental tug-of-war within the main character, Greg. 

From a Christian perspective, the novel speaks on Greg’s personal reflections upon God, His existence and why bad things happen upon the Earth without cramming the Christian religion down one’s throat. This is much appreciated as the author gives enough information and Scripture to just make readers “think for themselves.” 

Greg, as a staunch humanist, spends time with his four friends at their poker games that reveal much conversation about God. The book reveals a dark past for Greg and his family, being of Japanese descent during WWII and the horror of the camps. Their only crime, being Japanese, Greg reveals the loss of a family heirloom, in which he goes searching for. The epic continues as Greg and his family survive a shipwreck on an island, which ends up giving them life amid their tragedy. This book is a movie in the making with a dreamy, mysterious, and memorable title! 

With a beautiful ending, surprises and twists along the way, the book keeps the attention of readers. I was hooked from chapter one. The beautiful descriptions of the lake and the cultural tensions that the Japanese experienced during the time of WWII provide an interesting backdrop. The author gives readers a true appreciation for family, love, patriotism, combined with dark overtones of racism prevalent during the WWII era, while also sharing Christianity in such a way that makes sense, giving equity a voice. 

An absolutely fascinating novel with an epic title made for the big screen!  You may get your copy of Westward Lies the Sun at Amazon and in Kindle as a download.

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Book Review - Fully Alive, and Finally Free: Knowing God as Father

Title: Fully Alive, and Finally Free: Knowing God as Father

By: David Howell

A CBM Christian Book Review

10.0+ out of 10.0 stars

Fully Alive and Finally Free: Knowing God as Father by David Howell is the next step book after “How to be a Child of God.” This book is written to teach those who have accepted Christ as Savior, but need to be taught about the victorious life available in Christ. Becoming fully alive in Christ is knowing your identity in Christ. Knowing God as Father sets you free to become who God created you to be. As a step-by-step guide with full color illustrations, the author makes understanding of the deep truths of the Gospel that brings real change in one’s soul. 

This is a powerful read that addresses the real issues of life in a simple way. This book explains in four easy steps what happens when God becomes our Father: our sins are forgiven, a new heart comes, the Holy Spirit comes to live inside each person, and now we have the same Father as Jesus, as we are Jesus’ brothers and sisters. The author further includes “Next Steps as God’s Child” in order that individuals become renewed in their spirit and grow spiritually. Such issues as forgiveness extended to family members, and others who have hurt us, give a deeper understanding of how to live in this freedom. David Howell has included insight from his personal experiences and upbringing from a godly dad that lend to each example, along with the pictures that help explain each scriptural truth. 

Promoting spiritual growth, this book is greatly inspiring and true to foundational Biblical truths and Scripture.  This book is a much-needed tool in discipleship, giving fresh insights and full explanations of the new life available in Christ. The author has a keen sense of knowing the issues that face readers, such as dying to one’s self, and presents the spiritual reality with such ease. This is a wonderful and highly recommended book that should be presented to every new believer as well. Too often, one accepts salvation, but falls away. With that said, this book is a must-read after “How to be a Child of God.” 

Pastors, teachers, evangelists, junior and senior high ministries might consider also to include the book, Fully Alive and Finally Free, as Bible study material. Included are additional reading resources and full scriptural content for additional study and meditation.   

You may get your copy of Fully Alive, and Finally Free: Knowing God as Father At Amazon. For more information about the author, his ministry, and additional books, visit Prison Evangelism. Be sure to visit How To Be a Child of God.

Book Review - Seeking God Through Prayer and Meditation - Devotional Edition

Title: Seeking God Through Prayer and Meditation - Devotional Edition

By: David Howell

A CBM Christian Book Review

10.0 out of 10.0 stars

Seeking God Through Prayer and Meditation by David Howell is the companion book to “How to be a Child of God”, and “Fully Alive and Finally Free”, that offers a manual to discover and develop the Christian disciplines of prayer and meditation. Stating that these are “the principle means of communicating and spending time with God” as “two habits Christians are encouraged to learn and practice.” Based on an acronym of ACTS Model of prayers created by the author, ACTS stands for Adoration, Confessing, Thanksgiving, Seeking or Asking. 

In this way readers are encouraged to learn to talk to their heavenly Father in prayer, study, with a second section in the book that teaches Christian meditation. This is fully Biblical, as we are instructed to meditate on the Word, His goodness, etc., day and night. As a division of the author’s Prison Evangelism, this is booklet has been designed to include a fully-illustrated guide with over 563 Bible verses. 

Each section is designed to inspire and encourage intimacy with God as one becomes renewed in the spirit of their new heart and mind, engaging in the model prayer presented from ACTS. Group prayers and meditational prayers are given, songs, insight into fasting, along with a Quiet Time 31-day devotional in the back of the booklet for personal use. 

The Foreword presents this book as a useful way to enter into the 11th step of Alcoholics Anonymous, “(We) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the ability to carry that out.” 

Seeking God Through Prayer and Meditation comes highly recommended for those who want to know God and Scripture in a more personal way. The powerful impact of this booklet is that those caught in sin are given understanding and a new perspective. A new way of living free from addiction, lust of the world, and the old ways, is taught as instructed from the Bible and those who read it are discipled. 

This is a wonderful guide book teaching the deep things of Christ and the new life available in Him. A highly recommended tool for encouraging spiritual growth and setting the captives free.

You may get your copy of Seeking God Through Prayer and Meditation - Devotional Edition at Amazon. For more information about the author and his ministry visit Prison Evangelism. 

Book Review - How to be a Child of God Witness Edition

Title: How to be a Child of God (Witness Edition)

By: David Howell

A CBM Christian Book Review

10.0 out of 10.0 stars

How to be a Child of God by David Howell (Witness Edition) is a beautifully illustrated, full-color, 49-page booklet offering a step-by-step guide to salvation, redemption, and sanctification through Christ, His crucifixion, and His blood that brings an invitation to the family of God and presents a new life in Christ to prison inmates across America. With 223 full-text Bible verses combined with the full-color illustrations, inmates, despite education or reading ability, are presented with a clear Biblical overview of the free gift of salvation and the truth of the Gospel that transforms the old life into a new life in Christ. 

In Colossians 1:27 Christ is in you and your identity is in Christ. We were crucified with Christ (Gal. 2:20), buried with Him, resurrected with Him, ascended with Him and now are seated with Him in Christ in heavenly places at the right hand of the Father. (Romans 6:1-6, Ephesians 2:6) 

Designed to be used as a study guide by encouraging prayer and meditation of the Scriptures, the booklet can be used as a group, or individual Bible study, and the author has included a witness edition that explains how to effectively witness to others for Christ. The booklet brings deep understanding and individual transformation through the power of Christ as stated in Colossians 2:12 NLT, “For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with Him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.”

Captured on each page through the hand-drawn and full-color sketches, the true meaning of the conversion process, knowing God as Father, and becoming born again through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross sheds light on the powerful transformation process. The pictures, text, and scripture verses give understanding as the reason and purpose for atonement. Jesus, as the Lamb of God, is portrayed as the only One who was able to make this perfect sacrifice. The captives are set free as the author explains scriptural truths in a simple format, giving understanding that becoming a child of God is not difficult, but a privilege and an invitation to them to enter into a new family - the Family of God. 

What makes this book incredibly unique is the ease at which the author describes deep spiritual truths in such a simple way, along with the vivid pictures, even a child can understand the truths presented. The author also clearly gives representation of what moving from the old life into this new life means by delineating from the generational bloodline, coming from Adam, that each of us was born into, and helping them understand that a new family lineage is the only remedy. The old baggage and the old ways are buried, and the new life has been raised with Christ. 

How to be a Child of God (Witness Edition) comes highly recommended to anyone who is incarcerated, but is also a wonderful evangelism tool that could be handed out to anyone. The story of redemption comes alive through the pictures, reaching many in the name of Christ. As an added bonus, the author has included complete scriptural references in the back, and also additional books for further study and reading. 

You may get your copy of How to be a Child of God Witness Edition at Amazon. For more information about the author, his ministry, and additional books, visit Prison Evangelism  and be sure to visit How To Be a Child of God. 

Book Review - Breaking Into Prison

Title: Breaking Into Prison:

How God Used One Ordinary Guy to Get the Gospel to Millions

By: David Howell

A CBM Christian Book Review

10.0 out of 10.0 stars

 

David Howell gives glory to God through his testimonial book, In Breaking Into Prison: How God Used One Ordinary Guy to Get the Gospel to Millions. The book shares God’s abounding grace, kindness, and the incredible patience of God, as Howell states God wastes nothing, through David’s life and eventual prison ministry. God in His unfathomable love, took David, a “less than ordinary guy”, a drunkard, and drug addict, to include one who had been in and out of prison, “a rebel” as Howell put it, and partnered with David to reach those who are at the “end of their rope” –  those souls languishing in prison.

What is most evident about this book is that it provides insight into God’s ways and how God can use failures, even over a lifetime, to create something worthwhile and beautiful. The author credits his life to this Scripture, and hopes to encourage others to follow:

 

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who

live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the

flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave

Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20

 

The author includes many copies of the letters received from prisoners that will bring tears to the reader's eyes. Displaying his book, How to be a Child of God, 1.1 million copies have gone to 2100 prisons and jails across America. God has multiplied that number with approximately 5 million actually having read the book. What is also truly inspiring is the honesty, the sincere repentance from inmates, and the asking for more material. This helps remind one that Jesus said, “Forget not the prisoners.”

 

Through the author’s prison ministry and book, evangelists are being made and a mending of many families’ lives is occurring. This is such a wonder to see and readers will be delighted to read all the handwritten letters and testimonies included. As such, this book gives all the glory to God, while also presenting surprising information about the lack of Christian materials available in prison.

 

What an amazing story and life David Howell has led. Surely this is a testimony and offering to the One, the only One, Jesus, Who can bring real change into one’s life. Good news indeed. A highly encouraging must read!

For more information about David Howell, his prison ministry, or his books, visit: Prison Evangelism, The Prison Evangelism Mission Page and Media Page.

You may get your copy of Breaking Into Prison:  How God Used One Ordinary Guy to Get the Gospel to Millions at Amazon and Kindle ( links to be added ). For additional information be sure to visit How To Be a Child of God.