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A captivating and very readable account of the Christian missionary experiences of a family serving in Nigeria for more than thirty years and helping to birth what has become the largest nondenominational seminary in Africa, with 800 pastors in training from more than 100 denominations. The author starts with both the goods news and the bad news about the challenges of modern Nigeria, and carries the reader through the development of one of Africa’s most strategic theological schools, West Africa Theological Seminary. In the Introduction, Dr. Timothy Tennent, president of Asbury ...

This book is a daring and no-holds-barred description of the false teachings and dangerous trends that have sent much of the Nigerian Church off course over the past four decades. Gary Maxey is joined by Peter Ozodo in describing four major threats to Christian orthodoxy that are threatening the orthodoxy of Nigerian Christianity. The first is the unbalanced Prosperity Gospel that is shown to be an import from the scripturally unbalanced American Word of Faith movement. The second is the revival of African Traditional Religion within the Church. The third threat is a subtle redefining of ...

Teach Me Your Paths is a series of twelve books designed to help us become better disciples of Jesus Christ. This is the third book in the series. Here we examine our personal walk with God as members of the Christian family. Part One (Lessons 1-8) admonishes us to stand firm in Christ by maintaining the doctrinal and experiential foundations of our faith. We must be on our guard against every enemy of our souls and maintain strong foundations. In Part Two (Lessons 9-16) we are reminded that the secret of our strong stand in Christ is primarily in developing our relationship with God. Part ...

The defense of our Christian faith has never been more important than it is today. The Bible is attacked both from within and without, yet it stands rock solid against the foolishness of the attackers. Atheism and false philosophies are rampant, yet there are sound responses against them. The challenge of false religions is formidable, yet we can be sure that God's truth cannot be overthrown. This book is a fresh manual for facing all of these challenges, and triumphing with the timeless truths of the Bible.

The Spirit World is the seventh book in the discipleship series, “Teach Me Your Paths,” and is divided into twenty-four lessons. The lessons begin with the nature and function of angels and demons as revealed in the scriptures. Starting with an understanding of the distinctive worldview of secularists, traditional religionists and the Bible, we see what both the Old Testament and New Testament reveal about angels and demons. Several lessons discuss the presence of spirits in the world today, while the final lessons discuss the believers’ authority over the spirit world. These studies ...

The author writes passionately upon a vital subject that should be of great concern to every godly-minded African and all church leaders. His thesis is that Nigeria needs revival which cannot come until human-made hindrances are repented of and taken out of the way. He writes, “Genuine Bible revival begins with weeping and mourning as God’s people are gripped with a great sense of spiritual need.” He further argues that “while revival never begins with happy singing, it always ends with happy singing.” He has painfully observed that the Nigerian Church of today looks like a “...

This is the step-by-step exciting story of a 70-year-old father and his two sons who climbed the highest mountain in Africa. Much more than that, it combines a fascinating family story with key lessons for visualizing and implementing extraordinary projects. By reading this book you will learn intriguing things about a unique missionary family, you will be entertained by a fascinating story and you will also gain new insights into dreaming big and doing mighty exploits for God.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made is Book Eight in the discipleship series, Teach Me Your Paths. It tells the awesome story of the creation of human beings in the image of God, including our unique endowment with reason, with conscience and especially with the ability to personally relate to our Creator God. This book underscores the fact that without the foundation of Bible teaching scholars seek in vain to adequately understand and explain the human soul and the human spirit. This is a great companion to the earlier book about the Holy Trinity, Our Great God, and the book about God's awesome...

This book is poised to be a best seller. Dr. Maxey has boldly and bluntly written on a subject that many Christians who love God face in secret. It examines the moral, physiological and spiritual defilements that bombard the minds of Christians, trapping them in behavioral patterns they cannot break. Escaping Sexual Bondage is revolutionary. It provides solutions which challenge the common ecclesiastical belief that such issues are resolved by deliverance prayers and confession of sin. While the importance of prayers and confession of sins is important, they deal with symptoms rather than ...

Confessions of a Grateful Pilgrim: Reflections @ 70, is the spiritual autobiography of Dr. Gary S. Maxey. In an unusually candid summary of his spiritual odyssey, he takes us all the way from his misunderstanding and rejection of God in his early childhood to his present activities as a pastor, seminary founder and writer. Confessions are certainly there, but also many reasons why he is today a grateful pilgrim with high hope for heavenly rewards. Dr. Maxey describes how he came into a dynamic walk with God at age seventeen, including his personal discovery of the meaning of holiness. He ...

The two-fold objective of this book is to show a clear picture of what a holy woman or man should look like and to describe the pathway for its attainment. The Highway of Holiness is metaphorical for the life of holiness that starts at the point of the New Birth and progresses throughout our lifetimes. Scripturally, all believers are saints, or holy ones, yet there is also discernible progress along the way. The author uses 2 Thessalonians 2:13, which describes our salvation to be “through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit” to talk about the operations of the Holy Spirit in ...

The first of a twelve-volume series of Christian discipleship lessons designed originally for the explosively-growing Church in Nigeria. The book covers eight lessons each on the new birth, sanctification and growth in grace. It is attractively illustrated, and written for adults in need of sound biblical teaching in an easy-to-follow format, with short questions at the end of each lesson. Author Gary Maxey is a forty-plus year veteran of missionary pastoring and seminary teaching both in Nigeria and Latin America.

With amazing clarity and pastoral insight, the author identifies thirteen secrets that he believes are necessary to achieve ministerial success. He skillfully illustrates each with the life of outstanding Christian preachers, evangelists or missionary statesmen. Maxey is a prolific writer, a dynamic preacher and teacher of the word of God, pastor and a church builder as well as the founder of two theological colleges in Nigeria. His views in this book should be taken seriously, most particularly in view of his maturity and experience in Christian service and ministry.

A sound grasp of the background and contents of the New Testament is imperative for any serious following of Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament we find answers to some of the most basic questions of life, including who God is, how the world was created, how sintered the world, and how God chose to create men and women to walk with him in a covenant relationship. Yet is only in the New Testament that we get the full revelation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God sent into the world to seek and save lost humanity (Luke 19:10). In this fourth book in the Teach Me Your Paths series, we follow up on...

As we read through this masterpiece by Gary S. Maxey, we should note that holiness is not an option but is compulsory and mandatory. Be prepared to be born again (John 3:5); study the word of God to guide you in the path of holiness (Ps. 109: 11; 1 Pet. 2: 1-2); allow Christ to increase while you decrease (John 3:30); and be filled with the Holy Spirit so that you walk by him (Gal. 5:16). Finally, be aglow in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 12:11). Holiness which comes from the sanctification by the Holy Spirit is the only sure way to heaven. It is like the compulsory documents for your international...

Our Great Salvation is an excellent study of soteriology—the doctrine of salvation—written as discipleship materials for small groups or beginning Bible school classes. It is the ninth book in the discipleship series, “Teach Me Your Paths.” There are helpful study questions at the end of each lesson. The salvation story starts at the creation of Adam and Eve, and then moves to the terrible tragedy of the Fall, when sin and Satan entered the Garden. Yet even in those tragic hours God made a promise that the Seed of the woman (Jesus Christ) would bruise the head of the serpent. That ...

This is Book Six in the Teach Me Your Paths series, covering the entire scope of biblical and theological study, intended for Christian lay people. Going Deeper with God gives practical and timely counsel for those who desire to mature in the Christian faith, draw closer to God, and finish well. Drawing from five decades of personal, pastoral and classroom experience, the author gives sound advice about how to successfully mine the bible and the Christian classics, as well as how to strengthen our prayers lives and self-discipline. This book will be of inestimable help both to individuals ...

This is Book Five in the Teach Me Your Paths series, covering the entire scope of biblical and theological study, intended for Christian lay people. This book explores what the Bible tells us about our great God. Who is this wonderful God who created the heavens and the earth, and who eventually created humans as male and female? How can we describe this God? The author wrote this book primarily with an African readership in mind, yet its scripturally sound study of the Holy Trinity, and the persons of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit make it suitable for readers anywhere in the world

In this book we are calling for a dialogue that has yet to fully take place. We appeal for a genuine encounter between the tenets of age-old African Traditional Religion and the truth of the scriptures. What the early missionaries brought to our shores never engaged adequately with the long-established spiritual perspectives of Africa. Regrettably, Jesus Christ was always presented as the answer to questions outsiders were asking. Hardly anyone was asking what Jesus Christ might look like if he were to answer the questions burning on the African mind. But those are the questions we must ...

The past fifty years have witnessed unprecedented growth in the African Church, with a gradually blossoming international outreach extending far beyond the continent. The global impact is beginning to be felt all around the world. Yet two acute needs of the African Church continue to stare us in the face. The first need is lack of excellent training for our leadership. The second is the lack of excellent discipleship for new believers. In both cases the need demands focused attention. It is a sad fact that far more than one-half of our leaders have no formal training. And also, far more ...