PER:This Present Darkness  by Frank E. Peretti

   Crossroad books,
Westchester, Il 60153; 1986.

   "For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the
principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this
present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the
heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12 (RSV).

   Mr. Peretti has caught the essence of spiritual warfare in this day
and age in this powerful novel. THIS PRESENT DARKNESS tells the story
of one small town that fought evil, an evil they could not even see. It
tells of one man of God lead to pray and how that prayer for help
turned the tide of one of the great spiritual battles of our day.

   Hank Busche is a new minister, a believer in God's Word as it is
written, in a town that seemingly prefers milk and toast gospel. He
stands alone at first against the powers of evil with prayer his only
weapon. How God answers those prayers and how He works in the unseen
spiritual world around us is this story.

   If you don't believe that satan exists or that there is a war going
on out there for each one of us don't bother to read this book. I
believe that each person really reading this book will be touched by a
renewed call to intercessory prayer for the world around us and maybe
that is what the Lord intended when this book was inspired.

   Available at Christian bookstores. Also by the same author TILLY and
coming this month PIERCING THE DARKNESS, the sequel to THIS PRESENT
DARKNESS.
