Vance Royal Olson: 5 books

“If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.” (C. S. Lewis, ‘Mere Christianity’) ‘The Road to Eden’ is the story of my quest to apprehend the other-worldly desires – call them,...

In the first book in this series I told some of the stories of my youth and childhood, especially experiences of my father’s love and how that became a doorway into the heavenly Father’s love. The Road to Eden is the journey into knowing God our Father, as we were created to know him. This book...

From the fall in Eden, to this very day, every human being must decide whether to walk in friendship with God, or in rebellion against him. The choice between the ‘tree of life’ or the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil’ is not just Adam and Eve’s historic choice, but the option of...

At the centre of human history stands an event, more meaningful, more significant, and more mysterious than any other: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In all the actions and wanderings of humanity, and in all the musings about our origins and future, this event remains unparalleled. Even...

‘Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man’ (John 1:51). The white light of Jesus’ mantle—that fell upon the Church when He ascended; just as Elijah’s mantle fell, at his ascension, upon Elisha—has been refracted...