At 2:58 PM on July 14, 2009, Andy McQuitty entered the valley of the shadow of death. “Andy,” his doctor said, “you have a massive tumor that has broken through the wall of your colon. It’s cancer. It’s serious. Get in here now.”
Hearing you have cancer does more than warn you of death. It displaces you emotionally and spiritually, as it did for Andy and the roughly 1.7 million cancer patients diagnosed in America annually. Notes from the Valley gives you a window into their experience. 
In the persona of a travel writer sending notes back from the desert, Andy recounts his journey through stage IV cancer, in which he discovered what King David did in his own valley: that in suffering, God’s presence isn’t diminished, but magnified. 
Written with humor and sensitivity, Notes from the Valley is for anyone on this journey or traveling alongside a loved one who is. It provides words of wisdom, comfort as it addresses questions like:
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<li>"Why did I get cancer?"</li>
<li>"Does God still love me?"</li>
<li>"Can I tell Him how I really feel?"</li>
<li>"Is it possible to suffer well?"</li>
<li>"Can any good come of this?"</li>
</ul>

Notes from the Valley: A Spiritual Travelogue through Cancer

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McQuitty, Andy

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Moody Publishers

Want to grow in courage?
It’s getting harder to be a Christian in our post-Christian culture. As a pastor of 35 years, Andy is seeing the church wake from a “Christian Pax Americana” to an era of intensified hostility. 
Based on David’s courage before Goliath, The Way to Brave helps readers face the giants looming over us today, such as secularism and relativism. Bent on banishing Christian influence from public life, their power is shocking, their reach expansive, and their deployment quick. But still they are no match for our God.
The Way to Brave guides readers through the five ways God prepared David to be intrepid in facing the giant who opposed him. The qualities and experiences David possessed are the ones Christians need today. Pastor Andy McQuitty will walk you through what those are and how they can mark your life, bolstering you for the storms ahead.

The Way to Brave: Shaping a David Faith for Today's Goliath World

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

What every parent intent on raising serious Christ-followers needs to know and pass along to their children. Open the pages of this journal and enhance your spiritual maturity in walking with God through daily Bible study and prayer that refreshes the soul, keeps your life anchored, and stayed on Jesus, the Vine, so you'll bear fruitfulness and ensure your best life later. 
Spiritual maturity is for those who "Watch daily at My Doors" (Proverbs 8:34). This is what these devotional journal entries are all about. If there was ever a time to watch daily at God's Doors, it is now, as we watch the world around us engulfed in fear change right in front of us.\nEach journal is presented as a daily devotional for edification, inspiration, and perseverance to jumpstart the daily discipline needed to spend time with God, in His Word, and in prayer. Imagine these journals were written to you personally and pass these Godly messages along to your children as part of your legacy and their heritage from a Godly parent. It will ensure you live your best life later.\nREVIEWS:\nAt the young age of 30, Andy McQuitty began journaling words of wisdom for each of his five children-on topics including discipline, marriage, authentic faith, work ethic, politics, and so much more. He gave each child their journal as a surprise when he took them to college-and now the content has made its way into a book to impact others. I've always admired Andy McQuitty, and now my admiration is even greater. His journals were unquestionably an expression of unconditional love-from a father seeking to share what he believed to be wise counsel. This book is a genuine treasure, with insights that are just as relevant today as they were several decades ago. Readers will be blessed by what this father shared with his children, and many parents will be inspired and led by the Lord to follow Andy's example.- JAMES ROBISON Founder and President, LIFE Outreach International Fort Worth, Texas 
Your Best Life Later is a refreshing glimpse into the heart of a father who has God's best in mind for his children. The excerpts of Andy McQuitty's journals gifted to his children are full of intentionality, humility, transparency, and a vulnerable authenticity not often found in a leader. My friend Andy is a man who sought to pastor his children and not just the churches he served. The book is a good model for those who want to be godly mentors. - Mark Bailey President, Dallas Theological Seminary (Ret.) 
We all need people in our walk with Christ that are further along to help shepherd us along His path. We also need people that may be a few steps behind us so that we can pass down our own experience and knowledge and put those tools to use for the Kingdom. This book by my friend Andy McQuitty serves as both. It beautifully outlines lessons in life that we may learn for ourselves and pass down to others. The truth and vulnerability displayed in these pages are great reminders of both God's love for us and the love we must share with others.- Justin Leonard 1997 PGA Open Champion

Your Best Life Later

Leadership Books

What does it take to prepare for and maintain an effective pastoral ministry in 21st century America? Well, a theological education isn't a bad place to start (the authors of this book are products--and fans--of seminary education)! But while we encourage pastors to get all the formal education possible, we acknowledge that much learning critical to pastoral success never took place in a classroom, but in a community of our peers. That's where our book-learning was practically enhanced by the experiential wisdom of fellow pastors who warned us away from danger and pointed us in the right direction. What our friends did for us, we hope now to do for our readers! Hence, Hobo Pastors. This book draws its unusual title from the rail-riding "hobos" of Great Depression era America. Those inveterate travelers faced many unpredictable dangers and demands as they rode the trains from one place to another. They naturally came to rely on friends who had gone ahead and left helpful signs to guide them.In this book, we write as a couple of veteran pastor hobos leaving helpful "signs" for our younger compadres as they ply the rails of as yet under-explored pastoral territory. Some of the signs relate to the core tasks of pastoral ministry -- preaching, funerals, and marriage counseling. Other signs address some the more jarring aspects of ministry, like change management and negotiating conflict. Many of the signs speak to the inescapable prerequisites of character-- fighting pride and pursuing humility, fighting sloth and pursuing perseverance. With each chapter, one of us highlights a significant pastoral challenge and the other adds their two cents. We hope our readers will receive this back-and-forth dialogue as a "hobo signs" lovingly placed before you by a couple of old pastoral rail-riders!

HOBO Pastors: Wisdom For Life on the Road

Biographies & Memoirs

Parsley, Larry

Leaders & Notable People

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