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Welcome to our library of stories, insights, and inspiration.
At Rising River Media, we publish books that speak to the heart of faith, justice, and spiritual awakening. From the front lines of homelessness to the quiet strength of house churches, each book is born from real-life experience and a deep desire to follow Jesus authentically.
Whether you're looking to grow spiritually, understand complex social issues through a biblical lens, or simply find encouragement for the journey—you’re in the right place.
Take a look around. We pray these books bless, challenge, and equip you.
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A Place To Exist is the story of Camp Hope, the largest homeless camp in the State of Washington, from its inception in December of 2021 to its successful closure in June of 2023. Located on right-of-way property owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation along I-90 in Spokane, Camp Hope became the perfect…
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Alex’s Amazing Kingdom Adventure
Join young Alex and his three friends – Little Lamb, Brave Lion and Wise Wolf – as they set out on an adventure together to discover the Kingdom of the Great Shepherd and to receive their Kingdom hearts. Gale Smith illustrates her original and wonderful story of Alex and his three friends with 21 beautiful…
And They Dreamt Of A Kingdom: Biblical Studies in Discipleship And The Kingdom of God Volume 2
What Is The Kingdom of God? And What Does It Mean To Be A Disciple of That Kingdom? Welcome to Volume 2 of our series on biblical discipleship and the Kingdom of God. In the Kingdom of God, discipleship is a relationship and a journey, not a fill-in-the-blank workbook and DVD set. And They Dreamt…
30 Days With God In Tight Places
Our current book project is titled 30 days with God and Tight Places: Seeking God in the Psalms When We Find Ourselves Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Some of you listening to this video are struggling today, caught between a rock and a hard place. You don’t understand what God is doing in…
All Dogs Go To Heaven Don’t They?: Biblical Reflections On Christian Universalism and Ultimate Reconciliation
“In All Dogs Go to Heaven . . . Don’t They? Maurice Smith uses his extensive years of scholarship to tackle a complicated and difficult subject that affects all of us — what happens to people after death. He writes with humor and clarity to make the Biblical position very plain and to refute the…
Secret Church: Your Invitation To The Coming Underground Church
The moral and spiritual lights are slowly going out in America and the West. Do you know why? America and the Church are staring into an Abyss of historic, even biblical, proportions. Are you ready? Everything you know about Church is about to change. Are you prepared to step up and become a leader in…
The Least Of These: The Role Of Good Deeds In A Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
“Our Postmodern culture has concluded that it can manifest ‘good deeds’ without Jesus. The Church has concluded that it can manifest Jesus without ‘good deeds’. Our Postmodern culture’s plan appears to be working. The Church’s plan is a disaster.” – Maurice Smith, from The Least of These With these words author and organic house church…
Safe Houses Of Hope And Prayer: Your Practical Guide To Organic Church In Your House
Safe Houses of Hope and Prayer is the second installment in a two-part introduction to organic house church. This second book picks up where the first book, River Houses Rising, left off. Where that book laid the foundation for organic house church, this book builds on that foundation by offering practical insights into the day-to-day…
When Jesus Visits His Church: A Study of the Seven Churches of Asia (Revelation Chapters 2-3)
If Jesus were to visit your house church the same way He promised to visit the house churches 1st Century Asia Minor in Revelation Chapters 2 and 3, what would He find and what would He say? Would he find more “work” than love? Would He find compromise? Complacency? False teachers exercising false authority? Or…
Not By Bread Alone: Forty Daily Devotionals On Fasting And Prayer
And he humbled you and let you hungerand fed you with manna, which you did not know,nor did your fathers know,that he might make you knowthat man does not live by bread alone,but man lives by every word that comesfrom the mouth of the LORD(Deuteronomy 8:3) Drawing on over 20 years of personal experience and…
And They Dreamt Of A Kingdom: Biblical Studies In Discipleship And The Kingdom Of God
“Would You disciple us?” How would you answer that question? According to the author, those were the fateful words which generated this book. Why? Because that simple question embodies a very real and practical challenge. How do we intentionally disciple those who are seeking to become disciples of the Kingdom? This book, along with its…
30 Days And 30 Ways Of Doing Good: Your 30 Day Guide To Issues, Answers And Serving Others
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can.” – John Wesley, Founder of The Methodist Church “30 Days And 30 Ways Of…
The Inextinguishable Blaze: God’s Call to Holiness, Repentance, Intimacy and Spiritual Awakening
The Church of the early 21st Century needs something that only God can give. He has done it in the past, and He can do it again. But it will not come by means of any program, activity or act of self-effort. It is a sovereign act of God in response to and in fulfillment…
A Place To Exist: The True and Untold Story of Camp Hope and Homelessness in Spokane
A Place To Exist is the story of Camp Hope, the largest homeless camp in the State of Washington, from its inception in December of 2021 to its successful closure in June of 2023. Located on right-of-way property owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation along I-90 in Spokane, Camp Hope became the perfect…
River Houses Rising: The Rise of Safe Houses Of Hope And Prayer
River Houses Rising represents the first installment in a two-part introduction to organic house church. Maurice Smith weaves together history, theology and extensive personal experience in the organic house church movement to explore: