Straightforward Christianity by Nigel Scotland writes the plain truth for the plain man! How can following Jesus affect your life? Taken from the authors experiences, who has written 23 other books.

CHAPTER 1
A Founder with Universal Appeal

Of all the founders of the world’s religions Jesus has a universal appeal. This fact is powerfully captured in Salvador Dali’s famous painting Christ of St John of the Cross. It depicts Jesus with his arms outstretched and looking down over the entire world. The picture demonstrates Jesus’ deep compassion and concern for the entire human race. This is the truth so profoundly expressed in John’s gospel that ‘God so loved the world that he gave us his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life’. Today  the  followers  of  Jesus  are  numbered in billions and they are found on every continent in the world.

In 1971 two clergymen were standing together on a New York City Street corner and looking up at the billboards outside one of the theatres. One said to the other, ‘Do you know that show grossed two million dollars’? The other said: ‘Where did we miss out’? The show was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar! Two million dollars was a huge sum at the time. The show’s popularity was testimony to the universal appeal that Jesus still holds for so many in more recent times. This was followed in 1973 by Stephen Schwartz’s Broadway musical Godspell with a parade of much loved songs including ‘Prepare ye the Way of the Lord’. It’s not just the musicals which have proved to be so popular, epic films such as Franco Ziffirelli’s 1977 Life of Jesus were feted in many of the world’s  countries. Mel Gibson’s 2004 The Passion of the Christ shattered the box office  records. – Extract from Straightforward Christianity

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For an aspiring Christian writer you worry about finding a publisher that shares your views and publishes books with Christian themes and morals. Sharing the word of God to people is an honourable journey and having the right publishers to see your vision is important.

Kingdom Publishers are open to submissions, with a Christian fiction and non fiction theme, that are inline with God’s word. We accept manuscripts of 5,000-50,000 words, for publication and will not read anything outside the literary genre. Response times can vary and can take up to 6 weeks, so please remain patient during the review process.

Submission Guidelines

1. Submit your book proposal – a short description of your manuscript no more than 500 words, include word count, theme, contact details and any other relevant information.
2. Send three chapters – if we want to read more we will ask you to send three chapters of the book electronically as a single Word document and not separate chapters.
3. Send whole manuscript – if we are happy with the three chapters, we will ask to see the whole manuscript, again electronically as a single Word document. There is NO Guarantee that we will accept the book after reviewing the whole manuscript.
4. Acceptance of manuscript – we will ask for you to choose the publishing package and sign our publishing agreement.
5. Start Publishing Process

As a Christian writer, you have prayed about the kind of message you want to put across. Keep on praying, even after you have submitted your manuscript. You may have just handed in the next best seller!

Our team are committed Christians publishing quality and contemporary Christian books only. These may include: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, devotionals, children’s books and youth books.

As publishers we source our books to distributors who reach 39,000 retailers, libraries, schools and distribution partners in 220 countries and territories around the world.

Kingdom Publishers are accepting new submissions from both new and previously published authors. See here for more about publishing with us.

We look forward to reading your work!