New Release Books by Don Lynch

A huge ocean liner, its lights blazing, its band playing, is slowly sinking in a calm sea. To most people, this image evokes one name alone -- the Titanic. 119 years after this great maritime disaster, the haunting saga of the Titanic continues to fascinate the world. Now, republished in one splendidly illustrated volume, the complete story of the giant luxury liner that sank on its maiden voyage in April, 1912 is recreated. Through dozens of full color, accurate paintings and illustrations by Titanic artist Ken Marschall, readers can again experience what it was like to sail on history''s most famous ship. From the sight of water crashing through the glass-domed roof of the first-class staircase to a view of an underwater robot exploring the remains of the staircase seven decades later, each of the original Marschall paintings displayed here has a breathtaking impact. Historian Don Lynch, the foremost expert on the people aboard the Titanic has compiled a text filled with enthralling information about the crew, the passengers and the ship itself. Encyclopedic in scope, this volume is an invaluable sourcebook of Titanic lore. The pages of Titanic: An Illustrated History also display hundreds of archival photographs, paintings and illustrations, many published here for the first time. Authors Lynch and Marschall have also located and photographed fittings and fixtures from the Titantic''s nearly identical sister ship, the Olympic, and can thus reveal the Edwardian splendor of the ship''s interior in colorful visual spreads. The book''s showpiece is its 3-page foldout which reveals an original cutaway diagram of the Titanic. In this remarkable full-color illustration created by Ken Marschall expressly for this book, the Titanic''s hull is opened up to reveal the layout of her public rooms and staterooms in accurate detail.

Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody, a book that will keep saying what it has to say for years.

Previously published: Jacksonville, Fla.: Ministry Matrix.

By the turn of the 20th century, West Adams had become one of the first bedroom communities in fast-growing Los Angeles. Mansions and bungalows housed bankers and merchants who commuted to their businesses downtown, as well as moviemakers, debutantes, the social elite, and one or two scoundrels. Anchored by Adams Boulevard, this area just west of downtown has been through many changes. Today the neighborhood is one of the most racially and architecturally diverse in the country and contains the highest concentration of historic cultural monuments in Los Angeles. Residents and local archives, including the University of Southern California and the Automobile Club of Southern California, have contributed images to this volume illustrating life and architecture from Victorian times onward.

Launched in an era when speed and grandeur went hand in hand, the RMS Queen Mary is the last survivor of the golden age of ocean liners. From the time of her maiden voyage in 1936, passengers crossed the North Atlantic cocooned in luxury. Movie stars, tycoons, politicians, and royalty shared a ship with everyday people, for whom this was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. During World War II, the Queen Mary ferried countless soldiers safely across the sea and, at war''s end, carried their brides and babies home to America. Refurbished and polished to her previous glory, the Queen Mary continued to carry passengers until her final voyage to Long Beach in 1967. The RMS Queen Mary now serves as a floating hotel and tourist attraction, a living testament to her glamorous history, a generous showcase of art, and a magnificent example of a time when oceans could be crossed in both comfort and beauty.

The kingdom matrix of God''s household explains the use of the Greek word group, oikos, as it relates to the spiritual kingdom, the Ecclesia, and the inheriting sons of God. The matrix is complex. The matrix operates with kingdom culture in mind. The matrix is inclusive of several relationships, roles, and responsibilities greater than a nuclear family. The matrix includes commerce, and commerce is not separated into an economic model outside the household. The matrix may be discussed as a spiritual ecosystem, a word based upon the Greek word group, oikos. Understanding kingdom through this Bible framework leads us to apostolic order. So, the apostolic order that matures the matrix, causing it to produce purpose, has not yet reached operational integrity because apostles and prophets are not yet restored in function at the foundational level. Only apostolic order can bring this integrity to the kingdom matrix and mature God''s oikos. This could and should become a basis for taking the next step in apostolic reformation, and it will certainly demand a new, matured look at the influence of the kingdom on human culture.

In the late summer of 2001, James Cameron, the director-producer of the highest-grossing picture in Hollywood history, led a new deep-diving expedition to the wreck of the lost liner Titanic. With him was a team of underwater explorers that included the artist Ken Marschall, the historian Don Lynch, and two actors from the movie, Bill Paxton and Lewis Abernathy (who played Brock Lovett and Lewis Bodine). Their equipment included state-of-the-art digital 3D cameras, a pair of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), and a specially built deep-water lighting platform that illuminated the fabled ship as never before. In a series of historic dives they filmed deep inside the ghostly liner, obtaining haunting, never-before-seen images.In spring 2003, this remarkable journey into the heart of the Titanic will be presented coast-to-coast in a digital 3D giant screen film, Ghosts of the Abyss. For those who will be drawn anew to the story of the Titanic, as well as for those who have never stopped being fascinated by the ship''s tragic fate, James Cameron''s "Ghosts of the Abyss" will be a revelation in pictures and words. Cameron compellingly describes just what keeps him returning to the Titanic, and the meticulous journals kept during the dives form a dramatic adventure narrative. But what will truly astonish are new, incredibly vivid images from within the ship''s staterooms and public rooms, matched with archival images from 1912 and new paintings and diagrams-a "then-and-now gallery" that captures as never before the history, the drama, and the legend of the Titanic.

When God sends increase, He provides fathers to prepare inheritors for the increase. God has nations in mind with everything He does, and fathering is His leadership strategy to align leaders. Properly aligned and functioning, spiritual fathering makes an international-level spiritual power and authority available at the individual and local level. God has a strategy for fathering: the spirit and power of Elijah; hell has a strategy to steal the inheritance: the spirit of Jezebel. These spiritual conditions continue to work for and against God''s kingdom agenda. Jezebel isn''t so much after leaders as she is working to steal the inheritance by offering substitute inheritors. The spirit and power of Elijah joins hearts - not minds - fathers with children, and children with fathers to release blessing instead of curse from one spiritual generation to the next. God''s strategy for increase is inheritors so the increase can have an international impact through fathering leadership. Dr Don will challenge your present thinking about kingdom leadership and your measuring tools for ministry success. This book will do more to prepare you to align your life with what God is doing in this revival generation than any ten books on personal potential because it will unmask the work of the enemy to distract you from spiritual fathering and distress you in following any leadership at all. Dr Don is a recognized international leader speaker, author, and father in demand on several continents who is living out what this book describes.

The book features haunting, rarely seen imagery depicting the ship''s interiors and equipment, as well as close-up details from James Cameron''s multiple dives of the Titanic wreck.

The Power of the Cross seminar has touched tens of thousands of lives internationally. It is a strategy for discipling with proven effectiveness and Biblical integrity. It is powerful because the principles are God''s, applied by Holy Spirit in a strategic way. This booklet will be available to participants of the seminars primarily but is made available to all who wish to learn more about this powerful international ministry.

The foundational kingdom leadership dynamics are prophet and apostle. Jesus devoted His leadership development to apostles, and positioned them primary when He Ascended. Apostles are the kingdom architectural master builders, using living stones for God''s building. Apostles lead the fivefold leadership dynamics of the Body in preparing and positioning its members. Apostles lead the adorning character of the Bride by maintaining the purity of kingdom culture and government."Apostle" is a function, not a title. Apostles represent the Kingdom within the kingdom. Apostles prepare and position kingdom citizens to enhance the influence of the kingdom. Apostles lay kingdom foundations in that they function at that level of kingdom leadership.When we read the Bible and hear what it says, we end up at a very different place than when we allow human institutionalism to define the meaning of terms and the function of leaders. The Bible remains at odds with most of the conclusions of institutionalized religious groups because those groups devise their own structures for organization and leadership, ignoring kingdom dynamics to fit the Bible into their distinctives.So, to understand "apostles," we need to hear the meaning of the word in the mouth of Jesus. For more the last couple of decades, the discussion of apostles has vastly increased because of emphases placed upon this discussion by church growth experts. While this book isn''t a treatment about the New Apostolic Reformation, it does speak to the fact that apostles do exist here and now, function at the foundational level of the kingdom, and their proper function calls us to reexamine all the kingdom leadership dynamics as they relate to Ecclesia.This booklet paints with broad strokes to explain the apostolic function, not exhausting any one aspect or providing long responses to arguments about current apostolic leadership models. The author honors the inspiration of C Peter Wagner and others contemporary voices but also gently challenges the kingdom leaders to a season of maturity. Dr Don feels that apostles have been restored to the kingdom leadership dynamics but that their leadership has not been restored at the foundational levels as yet because of glaring inconsistencies in how modern apostles function and criteria used to identify whether a person is, in fact, an apostle.A short read that may bring as many questions to the mind as answers, that points back to Scripture as the only Source of information on the subject given that the word, "apostolos," in the mouth of Jesus takes new meaning because Jesus is Apostle of the Father. When Jesus says, "Apostle," we must understand the definition, design, and function in Jesus and His originating apostles.Dr Don also finds the over emphasis upon Paul as apostle unnecessarily distracting in determining who is an apostle, the personality and disposition of apostles, and the faulty application of checklists and church growth principles to apostolic function. To understand Ecclesia, we begin with kingdom; to understand apostle, we also begin with kingdom. Attempts to study and understand apostles without the context of kingdom will certainly lead to misconceptions about apostles, thinking contrary to and inconsistent with the meaning of "apostle" in the mouth of Jesus.

Unity is not the objective for the citizens of God''s kingdom. Jesus did not pray for or expect unity. He prayed for and expected oneness. He asked His Father to make us one. Unity comes at the expense of oneness. And, what we compromise to produce unity always comes at the expense of the very things that produce oneness. In this book, the fourth in a series called Regional Ecclesia Manifesto, Dr Don Lynch discusses how kingdom leaders and people reach for and live in spiritual oneness.

This is a message preached By Dr. Don Lynch in Colorado Springs for a national conference on the Turnaround of America. "The New Era is here! The Roaring Twenties will be the greatest decade of history. The New Era will open the Reformation that resets the kingdom of God to its original design and definition of ekklesia, or church. The greatest changes to the kingdom were not made in the 1990s. There are happening now. Church growthism has moved the people of God away from the Bible strategy for fulfilling the Great Commission, so far that the Great Commission does not mean what Jesus says to most evangelicals. The Ten Things I Am Doing are radical because they are original!"

The most important teaching of Jesus on worship was given to a single person, in private, but His revelation of spiritual worship is the most powerful, comprehensive, and significant of all time.Spiritual worship is what Father is looking from "authentic worshipers." That worship is not about a location or "mountain" but about the individual worshiper becoming a sacrifice, priest, and altar through which worship created by God is released into the earth.Spiritual worship leads to personal and corporate releases of worship that can be prophetic, kingdom, Davidic, and combinations of the three.While christian entertainment is a valid aspect of kingdom culture, it is the very opposite of spiritual worship no matter how inspired it may be in terms of talent or Divine creativity. We can never expect concert mode to become spiritual worship; entertainment and worship are opposites.

1999 Titanic calendar featuring magnificent paintings of the Titanicwith fascinating notes on the doomed luxury liner and the people who sailed on the fateful voyage.