Immanuel! Thy Kingdom Has Come

In Immanuel! Thy Kingdom Has Come, sports columnist-turned-preacher Ed Fowler demonstrates through a series of sermons grounded in the gospels that the eternal realm of our Lord Jesus is with us today in a way many Christians do not recognize. Fowler challenges all Christians to cast off the notion that life with the Lord begins at physical death and to enter wholeheartedly into His service right now

Many Christians today miss out on the true riches of this life because they fail to see that our Lord does not want us to tarry until we join Him in His eternity to enter His service. God calls every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ to “prepare ye the way of the Lord.” In Immanuel! Thy Kingdom Has Come, sports columnist-turned-preacher Ed Fowler offers a series of sermons challenging all Christians to begin today to work toward that glorious moment when God’s will is finally and fully done on earth as it is in heaven.

This is not a book for the faint of heart. Those who seek a deeper, more worshipful way of knowing their Lord will hear in these messages the call of the shofar to draw near to Him in a faith that embraces the evidence of things not seen.

Fowler draws on his experiences in sports journalism – including an explosive encounter with a Hall of Fame defensive lineman – as well as in overseas missions and prison ministry to illustrate these sermons written in a style that frames God’s kingdom in the here and now.

Once a nationally recognized sports columnist, he is now an ordained minister. For most of three decades, Ed Fowler wrote sports for the Austin American-Statesman, Kansas City Star, Chicago Daily News and Houston Chronicle, commenting on the exploits of elite athletes from the World Series and Super Bowl to the Olympics, Wimbledon and the British Open. He is the author of Loser Takes All, a look at the machinations by which owner Bud Adams reincarnated the Houston Oilers as the Tennessee Titans for fun and profit. Fowler also hosted a daily sports talk show on Houston radio stations in the 1990s.

An avowed agnostic, he “suffered” a head-on collision with the Holy Spirit on Christmas Day 1994, just after his 47th birthday. Since that day, Fowler has worked in overseas missions and as a volunteer mentor and teacher with Prison Fellowship. After studying biblical languages at Dallas Theological Seminary he graduated from Cranmer Theological House with a master of divinity degree. He was ordained a deacon and then a presbyter and currently serves as vicar of All Saints Anglican Church in Durango, Colorado. He also teaches a weekly Bible study and mentors inmates in the La Plata County Jail.