Books

I currently have three books released and available for sale through Amazon and other online book retailers. Your purchases of these titles helps support our ministry.

Death on the ground, death in the sky, the days of renewal are at hand…”

Fourteen hundred years after the millennial reign of the Great King has ended, the world still lives in relative peace and safety but has strayed from the principles that led to humankind’s greatest era: the Great Generation. The principal system of faith, Royalism—once a global theocracy under the King—has degenerated into a politically oriented belief system. In response to the growing threat to their beliefs, factions of the Royalist Social Movement, from the violent to the reformist, seek to restore the principles and former glory of the Great Generation.

High above Terra, connected to the planet by a system of orbital tethers stretching from the surface to sixty-four thousand kilometers in space, the civilian space station City of Heaven is home to more than a million citizens. A futuristic Tower of Babel, City of Heaven is humankind’s greatest achievement.

Enter the Ar’chay Order, a radical sect of Royalism determined to force the movement and the world to bend its knee, with Ar’chaists assuming the Regency. In a single act of terror, they sever the tethers connecting City of Heaven, killing nearly all of its inhabitants and sending the city on a collision course with Terra, where millions more will surely die.

On both Terra and the remains of City of Heaven, survivors battle for control and the polifaith movement reaches a crisis that threatens to unleash a new global era of faith-cleansing that will rid the world of Royalism once and for all.

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Twelve stories of faith, hope, and absurdity.

Braxton’s lonely days came to end at the annual jazz festival when he met Jenneen—dark hair with blonde highlights, radiant skin, a bold confidence, and those two beautiful heads. As Braxton falls for the most unusual woman he’s ever known, he must find a way to maintain his affection, while accepting a horrible sacrifice of love.

Charles Fargo’s desperation for significance leads him on an adventure of faith with devastating consequences for his hometown. Caught between the desire to do great things, and his mediocre existence, Charles takes on a simple task—moving a mountain.

Bill Harmond was the perfect employee, and prospective mate, the man all the women at the office wanted—handsome and hard working, a creative thinker with an edge, kind, generous to a fault, a man of impeccable integrity, and the best serial killer the company ever had.

Volume One of When Shadows Dream: Twilight, journeys through 12 stories where the impossible, improbable, and unthinkable are common day occurrences sparking uncommon reflections.

Read what others are saying about When Shadows Dream: Twilight:

“Tom Terry’s new book is a delightful Serling-esque jaunt into a more spiritually and culturally aware Twilight Zone. Full of delightful and unexpected twists, this anthology reinvents the science fiction short story genre. WSD:T is a great example of how Christians should “do the literary arts” in the 21st century.”

“Terry takes you on a roller coaster ride with stories that start in the surreal. Some stories are light hearted, others pack a punch, all will make you think.”

“Pick up a copy of Tom Terry’s short stories and expect to be transported. Whether set in a distant land or in seemingly familiar surroundings, these stories carry the reader on a journey with an understanding of both the light of grace and the darkness that resides in the human heart. Good, thought-provoking reading. Highly recommended.”

“The short story genre is not something you see much these days. Tom Terry has used the short story form to offer faith moving stories that energize the reader.”

More About WSD:T
Terry’s first published work of short stories combines an unusual mix of science fiction and light fantasy in a Christian values genre. When Shadows Dream uses allegory and alternate realities to present values concepts common among Evangelicals.

The stories presented in the collection often take sharp, disturbing turns not normally found in modern religious fiction. Ordinary tells the story of a missionary who struggles with a decision to leave a man to be eaten by a lion. Canvas and Flesh is a brutal tale of abuse and art suffered in an Arabic prison. Murder One, set in an alternate reality, takes place in corporate offices where one may order a murder by phone as easily as calling for a pizza.

Terry often sets his short stories among familiar surroundings in cities and countries where he has lived, creating alternate realities around usually nondescript locations.

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Is the Great Commission apolitical?

The modern missionary movement devotes its energies to personal and group evangelism, and strains to avoid ties with political movements. Yet, up until the modern era, missions work was facilitated by political powers. Now, in a time when political freedom has seen its greatest advantage missions is moving farther away from its historic partner. Meanwhile many disciples of missionaries are transforming their countries through new political movements, facilitated by their faith.

Faith & Freedom: How the missionary principle facilitates political freedom, traces the roots of modern democracy to Christian theological movements, and then follows the trail back to the present, where missions may be taking a new turn—abandoning the concepts of political freedom it founded.

Missionaries representing 24 countries took part in the research for Faith & Freedom. Together with historical and current events research, Faith & Freedom will give you a new perspective on the role of the missionary principle through history and the modern world; and why missionaries may be the most important front-line force for the global advancement of freedom and democracy. Faith & Freedom provides insight on issues like:

Faith as the father of freedom
Why free countries are abandoning their heritage of faith
How missions movements facilitate democracy, and
What the church can do to protect the integrity of missions, and advance the heritage of freedom.

You’ll also get a first-hand perspective from missionaries representing 24 countries on why they avoid, or participate in their host country’s politics.

“What a Biblical, provocative and revolutionary book! I’m glad someone finally said it! And Tom Terry says it with freshness and insight. This is a book that will make some angry, others cheer and everybody think. This is a book that could radically change the church and the church’s mission to the world and it’s one you don’t want to miss(Steve Brown, Key Life Ministries, professor at Reformed Theological Seminary).

“Tom Terry has brought to light a real and measurable cause-and-effect historical link between the missionary movement and the development of governments where political liberty has a fair shot at success. Terry’s insightful analysis is a breath of fresh air in a journalistic environment cut off from reality by the intellectually closed vault of political correctness.” (K.G. Powderly Jr. Author of One Faith-Many Transitions: Worldviews in Church History).

“Faith and freedom, like religion and politics, are fraternal twins. They form one side of the same coin. Our Founding Fathers believed that religion was necessary for our political experiment to prosper. In his book, Tom Terry addresses the important interrelationship between these twin pillars of our society” (Mathew D. Staver, B.A., M.A., J.D. President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel).