LONGWOOD, FL-It was with deep apprehension that district judge Rick Davis approached his calling to deliver inspirational sermons to Texas inmates. What he found, however, was an audience hungry for the Word. In the two and a half years since his first visit as a guest preacher at a prison in Huntsville, Texas, he has been back to prison several times, bringing with him messages of hope and encouragement to society's outcasts. His book, The Prison Sermons ($15.99, paperback, 978-1-60266-056-4), informs both inmates and non-incarcerated believers who feel they are in a prison of their own making that Christ can do for free what millions of dollars in social programs cannot do change the human heart.
"Society is constantly perplexed by the 'crime' problem, the 'prison overcrowding' problem, the 'drug' problem, and the 'violence' problem," says Davis. "No real, enduring change will occur until and unless God brings about changes of hearts one at a time through revival. This book holds the solution that human social programs overlook."
In his capacity as district judge, Davis often witnesses firsthand how courtrooms are crucibles of human suffering. He has told many defendants whom he has sent to prison that he takes no pleasure in doing it. Too often, it represents a waste of human potential. Yet the law and the facts of the case often require it. It is these people Davis longs to know true freedom in Christ, a freedom that cannot be taken away, no matter how long a person may be incarcerated.
For more than six years, Rick Davis has served as a district judge in Brazos County, Texas. He and his wife, Carolyn, are Texas Aggies, and they have six children. Before working as a judge, he worked as a lawyer. Before that, he worked as an engineer at NASA in Houston.
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order The Prison Sermons through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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2007