Apostasy Rising (Episode 3 of 4)

Book excerpt: The Church's future is history. The third book in a four-episode, binge-worthy story season released the first of the month, told through full-length, complete novels with cliff-hangers that make you hunger for more! The year is 2123. The citizens of the world have united. Peace, prosperity, and progress reign supreme. Rising apostasy threatens to consume Ichthus, the last remnant of Christianity. And the Church's most chaotic hour since the Protestant Reformation has dawned with the dissolution of the faith and creation of a one-world religious assembly, Panligo. Standing at the center is the remnant of Christianity, which has just uncovered a lost religious order with the power to help the Church under siege. Only an ancient enemy of Ichthus has risen from the shadows to thwart the Ministerium at every turn. What’s more: the Republic has taken dramatic moves that changes everything and threatens to undo all that they have been working toward—ratcheting the stakes even higher for the future Church and sending the Ministerium back in time once again to retrieve from the past vital inspiration for the future. Will the future Church survive forces threatening her from inside and out? Will Ichthus retrieve from history what it needs to survive the future? And will ordinary believers rise to do the impossible when the Church needs them most? End Times Chronicles is an explosively inventive series that recasts the Christian struggle in a future world rife with social and religious challenges combined with technological and political change that feels close to home—inviting readers to experience the sacrifices and struggles to persevere unto victory in the face of hostile forces, both in the future and the past. Not since the blockbuster Left Behind series has a story captured the heart of the Church's mission in these last days—offering a unique, page-turning adventure that not only entertains through thrilling action and mysterious suspense, but captures the urgency of our own day and inspires for the journey of faith. Continue the epic series with book 3 by bestselling author J. A. Bouma about the future Church under siege.