D Dean Benton: 12 books

Rahab exemplifies a business woman in a brutally male world who leveraged her skills, business ability and vision into a deal with the men Joshua sent to check out the best way to conquer Jericho. She is tagged a prostitute when she may have been a hotel owner who positioned her home and business...

An early reader said that Mockingbirds at Dawn is the ideal name for a morning devotional and each chapter has enough content to cause a daily reflection. The words are reflective, motivational, entertaining, educational stimulants. Mockingbirds at Dawn is not about mockingbirds. It is for people...

Seams to Me is based on our work with addicts and people who are stuck. Addicts and stuck folks tend to know they are in a pit. Nearly all have an idea of the place where they want to be but have no workable plan to get there. The book is about the plan. The first rule of getting well is be willing...

As an adult child of divorced parents, I have looked for characteristics of a healthy family. Why does trauma paralyze some and motivate others? Using stories of addicts and world leaders, I have found the catalysts and principles that changed the trajectories and embedded strength into people predisposed...

Anger is a gift, Violence is not permissible, Hostility can kill you. This book is from a seminar series called "Stop Being So Damned Mad!" presented in dozens of venues. It has been our most requested and best attended seminar. It is also the most fun. There is a "Cure for the Common...

Southwood is a fictional antebellum collection of buildings that houses conferences, seminars, bed & breakfast, a clinic where broken families work toward wholeness and a church that meets in a railroad depot.The staff includes a former New Orleans stripper, a cop/pastor, a family from Sudan, business...

There is something wrong with me. That is one of the assumptions of children of divorce that can accompany the person into adulthood. I was in the second grade when Mom and Dad divorced. I was the only divorced kid in my class and maybe in my school. Kids in single-parent homes and divorced homes...

Gone To Southwood is the first book of the Southwood Series. Southwood Conference Center is located on about 100 acres of meadows, Cedar Creek, gentle hills. The story is wrapped around restoration of an antebellum mansion as the participants are restored to emotional and spiritual health. The Southwood...

HopePushers--with intent to deliver, will best benefit the person with a vision, dream or goal that has not yet become visible. Those with small hope accounts either give up, negatively adjust their self-view or conclude they heard God's Call incorrectly. Hope is the fuel that motivates, the...

An abandoned crate purchased by a Midwest pastor on eBay from a Maine salvage company is delivered to a retreat center in the South. The box contents reveal the pastor's family secrets and shadowy heritage. What he finds in the box unlocks the pathway to his healing and his purpose. The conference...

After fourteen years in the pastorate, my wife, daughter, son and sister-in-law, accompanied by a dog and two cats, boarded a bus to shift ministry to full time concerts, seminars, extended meetings. Thirty-four years later we had journals full of interesting events, encounters, and famous people....

Southwood Conference Center was the community her husband had always wanted. While Felicia hid in a government protection program hours away, Brent managed and rehabilitated what had begun as a plantation upgraded for TV, classes, retreat housing and the experiences of a dozen eclectic people, families,...